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Iran’s authorities opened a criminal case against the founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov. This was stated by Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dulatabadi, reports the BBC with reference to the Iranian agency of ISNA.

The prosecutor claims that militants of the Islamic State terrorist group use the messenger. In addition, as the Iranian authorities believe, the messenger can be used to trade human and drugs, as well as for the spread of child pornography.

Durov denies these accusations of the Iranian authorities. “We are actively engaged in blocking terrorist and pornographic content in Iran. I think that the real reasons are different,” he wrote on Twitter.

More than 40 million people use Telegram in Iran, and over the years of work we have not blocked a single political channel and did not give the authorities a byte of personal data, ”Durov later said .

"In Russia, Telegram already has about 10 million users, and the country seems to be in a hurry to join Iran on the establishment of cases of the Telegram leadership. Due to the failure to fulfill the anti -constitutional" Law of the FSB ", the administrative protocols, which are believed by lawyers, inevitably lead to trials." Durov noted. "The absence of the opportunity to occasionally visit Russia for me more painfully, more painfully, more painfully, more painfully, more painfully. than the mischief to Iran, first of all, because of the parents.

Durov published documents received from the FSB. In one of them, dated August 31, the FSB invited Durov to send a representative to Russia to participate in the preparation of a protocol on administrative violation under part 2.1 of Article 13.31 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to fulfill the obligation to provide information necessary for decoding electronic messages). The second document of September 14 is a copy of the drawn up protocol.

In Russia, since spring, mass blocking of messengers has continued for refusing to register as distributors of information and cooperate with the authorities, which provides for the "Yarovaya Law". At the end of June, Telegram was also under threat of blocking. The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, demanded that Durov register the service in the register of information distribution organizers. As a result, the department brought the messenger to the register , but Durov promised not to fulfill the "Yarovaya Law" .

On September 18, the former VKontakte employee Anton Rosenberg said that Telegram LLC Telegraph continues to work in St. Petersburg in the Zinger house. Durov denies this. "The last time the Telegram team was going to Zinger in 2014. Developers/designers/systems Telegram do not work in Russian organizations," said the founder of the messenger. Durov admitted that the Telegraph used to perform work for Telegram at an outsourcing, but there was no connection between companies for a long time.