TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA) – Iranian President's Office has issued an order banning the government offices from using dominant foreign messengers such as Telegram.

According to Reza Javaheri from Iran’s President’s Office, all the government offices and institutions are banned from using social messaging services like Telegram.

Earlier this month, Iranian officials had announced that Telegram would be blocked at the end of current Iranian month ending two days later on April 20.

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