Iranian protest at UN Plaza in San Francisco June 2009
The Iranian Communications Agency has formally announced it has banned Google’s popular email service Gmail.
The Iranian government said the ban would be “permanent”. The agency said the country would develop its own national email service for citizens to use.
During the botched Iranian elections last summer, the government blocked a number of social networking websites, including Facebook. The government later banned Twitter as protesters organized rallies through Twitter and published tweets including video of events amid the government crackdown on the protests.
The latest Gmail ban comes as the government warns people to refrain from participating in anti-government protests, one of which is scheduled tomorrow. More protests are scheduled on February 11, the day marking Islamic Revolution celebrations.
Update: Reports are coming in that there are SMS interruptions
Murad is an engineering graduate from Centennial college in Toronto. He is responsible for everything tech. 
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