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Reza Taghipour, a member of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace and a representative of Tehran in the parliament, in response to the question, “It is said that you were among the opponents of removing the filter in the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, what is the reason for this opposition?”, said: “It is a lie that there is no tax. We participated in expert meetings, we explained the conditions, it is foreseen in this resolution. Our discussion is expert, not political, that is why we say that we will not fall into the trap that they spread in the name of filtering. For the umpteenth time, I emphasize that Mr. President, introduce the filter-breakers of sales. You and the Minister of Communications said that the volume of this market is 20 trillion tomans, please report to the people about this 20 trillion tomans and say that we went and dealt with it.

Before the final session of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, it was about removing the filter when news came from the parliament that Reza Taghipour, along with several other representatives, had prepared a letter and through this he wants to prevent the removal of the filter. Taghipour is the same representative who, in addition to being a member of the legislative branch, is also a member of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace and is mentioned as one of the opponents of removing the filter. Of course, he himself does not accept this, he says it is a lie and I am only an advocate for regulating cyberspace.

When we ask him about the parliament letter and the efforts of some representatives to prevent the removal of the filter, he also says; “No! It is distorted and fragmented and “We do not oppose the removal of filtering.”

The following is an interview with Reza Taghipour Anvari, a member of the Supreme Council for Cyberspace and a representative of Tehran in the Islamic Consultative Assembly:

*Mr. Taghipour! Considering that you are a member of the Supreme Council for Cyberspace, which platform do you predict will be removed from the filter after WhatsApp and Google Play?

They did not tell us and I do not know.

*According to the agenda of the Supreme Council for Cyberspace and a resolution published in some media, it is said that platforms must have a representative office in Iran and …

The agenda they gave us had 32 paragraphs. These are sealed confidential and the secretary should say these things. In this way, if he sees fit to tell the media, to announce, of course, they apparently say that Mehr News Agency published it, see the same. If we say that tomorrow, they will stigmatize us that you revealed the secret.

*One of the representatives also gave this news to the representative office of the platforms in Iran, I want to ask you about its authenticity in a conversation.

I do not confirm or deny it at all because on the sheet they gave us as an order, the phrase confidential is written, meaning that I should not reveal it, but I heard that a news agency published it.

*It is said that you were among the opponents of removing the filter in the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, what is the reason for this opposition?

There is no tax on lying. We participated in expert meetings, we stated the conditions, it is foreseen in this resolution. Our discussion is expert, not political, that is why we say that we will not fall into the trap that they spread in the name of filtering. For the umpteenth time, I emphasize that Mr. President, introduce the filter breakers for sale. You and the Minister of Communications said that the volume of this market is 20 trillion tomans, please report to the people about this 20 trillion tomans and say that we went and dealt with it.

Don’t they say it’s bad and ugly? Let them say that we went and followed up. Mr. President and his subordinate institutions can definitely do this and not make excuses that we can’t because in any case, this bandwidth passes through the gateway and it is in the hands of the government, so they should announce that these people were selling filter breakers, this is the amount and we prevented it.

*It was said that the story of the parliament’s letter to the Supreme Council for Cyberspace was to prevent the removal of the filter.

The text of the parliament’s letter is clear, in that letter, the rule of law in cyberspace was defended, and we said that we have no objection to removing the filtering. Incidentally, the letter was distributed, but as usual, some people came and cut and distorted it and did not include those parts.