After the story was removed from the Baztab-e Emrooz website, others such as Digarban [Farsi] and Balatarin [Farsi] circulated the story, leading Baztab to once again publish the report on April 28. [...] IRAN: Arrest of a circumvention tool distributor FATA’s chief police officer in the province of Ghazvin announced [Farsi] that, in accordance with FATA’s mission to identify cyber criminals and monitor cyberspace, the organization had arrested a person accused of marketing and selling circumvention tools online. [...] The Computer Crimes Law dictates that the sale and marketing of circumvention tools and the teaching of methods to bypass censorship is illegal. [...] On April 15, the organization attacked NPR.org and its Twitter account in response to the broadcaster’s coverage of the Syrian conflict. [...] The SEA also claimed responsibility for compromising the Twitter account of the Associated Press and posting a fake news story about a bombing at the White House on April 23.
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