Iranian officials had warned people to stop using WhatsApp, Telegram and other "location-based applications," according to a ...

Iranian state television has urged people to remove WhatsApp from their smart phones, alleging without specific evidence that ...

Iran’s state television urged people to delete WhatsApp, saying without evidence that the app was sending user information to ...

In 2022, WhatsApp and Google Play were banned by the Iranian government during nationwide protests after the death of 22-year ...

The Iranian government is advising citizens to delete WhatsApp, alleging it shares user data with Israel. This follows previous bans on social media platforms, including WhatsApp itself during ...

It's more than feasible, for instance, that WhatsApp's data from Iran is not hosted in Iran.“Countries need to house their data in-country and process the data in-country with their own algorithms.