{"id":182839,"date":"2022-09-24T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182839"},"modified":"2022-09-24T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:02:03","slug":"whatsapp-says-it-is-working-to-keep-iranians-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/whatsapp-says-it-is-working-to-keep-iranians-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp says it is working to keep Iranians connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182840\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI.jpeg 1200w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI-300x218.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI-1024x745.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI-768x559.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI-696x506.jpeg 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI-1068x777.jpeg 1068w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI-577x420.jpeg 577w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NMZVAZVVI5OOXEKMOLW4OYNPAI-324x235.jpeg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LONDON: Meta Platforms Inc\u2019s WhatsApp said on Thursday that it was working to keep users in Iran connected after the country restricted access to the app and social media platform Instagram.<br \/>\nWhatsApp \u201cwill do anything\u201d within its technical capacity to keep the service accessible and that it was not blocking Iranian phone numbers, the messaging service said in a tweet.<br \/>\nIran on Wednesday restricted access to Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the last remaining social networks in the country, amid protests over the death of a woman in police custody, according to residents and Internet watchdog NetBlocks.<br \/>\nLast week\u2019s death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police in Tehran for \u201cunsuitable attire,\u201d has unleashed anger over issues including freedom in the Islamic Republic and an economy reeling from sanctions.<br \/>\nProtesters in Tehran and other Iranian cities torched police stations and vehicles earlier on Thursday as public outrage over the death showed no signs of abating, with reports of security forces coming under attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Meta Platforms Inc\u2019s WhatsApp said on Thursday that it was working to keep users in Iran connected after the country restricted access to the app and social media platform Instagram. WhatsApp \u201cwill do anything\u201d within its technical capacity to keep the service accessible and that it was not blocking Iranian phone numbers, the messaging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182841,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182839\/revisions\/182841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}