Morteza Aghatehrani: If we take a firm stance, Instagram will come to us.
In the realm of cyberspace, if we hold firm, foreigners will cooperate with us.
The head of the Parliament’s Cultural Commission said, if we hold firm, foreign users will also come to domestic messengers. They are extremely dependent on you, or at least they are dependent, so they will come to you if you hold firm. But if you are afraid from the start, you will end up on their turf.
Morteza Aghatehrani told ILNA that the Parliament’s opinion was that we should ensure that the platforms of virtual space programs are in our hands, not in the hands of outsiders like the Americans, Zionists, and Europeans, but many did not allow this.
In his opinion, not doing this has caused problems during the outages of Instagram and WhatsApp, because there is nothing inside to replace them.
This representative says it is not too late now and the Ministry of Communications should take the necessary actions. This is something that His Excellency has wanted for a long time and it has not been heeded. I attribute this to the fact that some people are a bit slow to understand.