Morteza Aghatehrani: If we are strict, Instagram will come to us.
In the realm of cyberspace, if we are firm, foreigners will cooperate with us.
The head of the Parliament’s Cultural Commission said if we are firm, foreign users will also come to domestic messengers. They are extremely in need of you, or at least they are in need, so they will come to you if you are firm. But if you are scared 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 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 domestic to replace them.
This representative says it’s not too late now, and the Ministry of Communications must take necessary actions. The Leader has long requested this, and it has not been heeded. I attribute this to the fact that some people are a bit slow to understand.