On Monday (1st), Iran's government has decided to open Gmail in the country. The change in attitude was clear: according to a member of the Iranian ministry of telecommunications, blocking the Google email service was a result of "involuntary attempt to censor YouTube", which by the way is still blocked.
Access to Gmail was released in its two forms, the HTTPS secure connection and also for HTTP. And even now the government maintains its position that it will create own internet service for users in the country, completely disconnected from the rest of the internet.
Moreover, just before opening Gmail, the government also announced that it plans to create local alternatives to search engines and Google email. They are respectively called Fakhr search system (which means pride) and email service Fajr (dawn that means). The launch of these services do not have time to happen, but the internet itself the country should become operational by March next year.
Gmail was blocked since September 24, while the YouTube suffers censorship in the country since mid-2009.
Access to Gmail was released in its two forms, the HTTPS secure connection and also for HTTP. And even now the government maintains its position that it will create own internet service for users in the country, completely disconnected from the rest of the internet.
Moreover, just before opening Gmail, the government also announced that it plans to create local alternatives to search engines and Google email. They are respectively called Fakhr search system (which means pride) and email service Fajr (dawn that means). The launch of these services do not have time to happen, but the internet itself the country should become operational by March next year.
Gmail was blocked since September 24, while the YouTube suffers censorship in the country since mid-2009.
