Trial proceedings started at Tehran's Revolutionary courts last weekend, with the presiding judge asking the media not to report the names of the suspects from this round onwards.
Tehran's Deputy Prosecutor, Ali-Ahmad Akbari, started reading out a “general indictment”, which centered on the argument that Washington was spreading false information about Iran through the internet.
“Since the beginning, the Islamic Revolution has faced all kinds of media schemes orchestrated by its enemies. Internal and foreign enemies have always tried to create a psychological war against the Islamic Republic by spreading rumors,” said Akbari.
""During Iran's post-vote developments, internet was used as an effective tool to organize illegal gatherings and to spread false information.""
“New technologies and ways of communication have impacted human life and today the internet can be used as a new form of threat,” he said.
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