Iran: Facebook has been blocked during the election period, possibly to disadvantage one of the candidates
May 24th, 2009 | 
Author: [bbc] Iran’s government has blocked access to social networking site Facebook ahead of June’s presidential elections, according to Iran’s ILNA news agency.
ILNA suggested the move was aimed at stopping supporters of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi from using the site for his campaign.
Facebook, which claims to have 175m users worldwide, expressed its disappointment over the reported ban.
So far there has been no comment from the authorities in Tehran
Iran ‘blocks access to Facebook’
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