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Yahoo Brings Email Service Back to Iran
- NIACouncil.org, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:49 PM
Yahoo has is now offering email accounts to Iranians again. The tech giant was the largest email service provider in the country until a 2013 policy made the service inaccessible to citizens
of Iran. Essentially a rule that required users to share a phone number in order to create a Yahoo email account meant that countries blocked by U.S. sanctions could not access accounts which kept
Iranian users from creating new accounts. Iranian Americans, human rights and technology organizations pleaded with Yahoo to change its policy and the company announced back in May
that it would. Access turned on again last week.
