Supreme Council of Cyberspace (Iran) () is a

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-council which was formed on 26 February 2012 by the

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of Iran's

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Seyyed Ali Khamenei Ali Hosseini Khamenei (; born 19 April 1939) is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He previously served as the third President of Iran, president from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei's tenure ...

; and is obliged to establish "National Cyberspace Center of the country" to have an entire and up-to-date knowledge of internal/external cyberspace and in order to decide regarding "how to deal with the harms of the Internet". The members of this council are appointed for a period of 3 years; and the president of the country is considered as the head of it. The High-Council of Informatics, the High-Council of Information and the High-Council of IT are considered as the bodies which were acted as policymakers and implementers in the mentioned field before this council's formation.

Natural-members

The "Supreme Council of Cyberspace" consists of the following "Natural-members": *

Saied Reza Ameli Saied Reza Ameli (In Persian سعیدرضا عاملی; born 1961 in Karaj, Iran) is a (full) professor of communication at the University of Tehran. He is currently a member of Department of Communications and the director of the ''UNESCO Chair ...

* Hamid Shahriari * Reza Taghipour *

Ezzatollah Zarghami Sayyid Ezzatollah Zarghami (; born 26 February 1959) is an Iranian conservative politician and former minister of Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts. He is a former military officer. Zarghami was Deputy of Minister in Cultur ...

Mohammad Sarafraz Mohammad Sarafraz () is an Iranian media executive who was head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) from 2014 until his resignation in 2016. He was the 6th director-general of the IRIB and succeeded Ezatollah Zarghami on November 10, ...

* Mohammad Hassan Entezari * Mahdi Akhavan Bahabadi * Masoud Abu-Talebi * Kamyar Saqafi *

Rasool Jalili Rasool Jalili (born; 19 August 1961), also known as Rasoul Jalili, or R. Jalili, is an Iranian academic, serving as associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Engineering of Sharif University of Technology. He is a member of the Supreme Coun ...

Legal-members

Legal-members of the "Supreme Council of Cyberspace" are as follows: * Secretary of the Council and President of the National Cyberspace Center: Mohammad-Amin Aghamiri *

President of Iran The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran () is the head of government of the Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the Supreme Leader of Iran, supreme leader. The 1980 Iranian presidential election, fi ...

Masoud Pezeshkian Masoud Pezeshkian (, ; born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and physician who has been serving as the ninth president of Iran since 28 July 2024. Pezeshkian served as governor of Piranshahr and Naghadeh counties and was elected to ...

* List of speakers of the Parliament of Iran:

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (, born 23 August 1961) is an Iranian Iranian Principlists, conservative politician, former military officer, and current List of Speakers of the Parliament of Iran, Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Parli ...

* Head of

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Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i (, ; born 29 September 1956) is an Iranian Iranian Principlists, conservative politician, Faqīh, Islamic jurist and prosecutor who currently serves as Chief Justice of Iran. He was Ministry of Intelligence and Natio ...

* Head of

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB; ) or Seda va Sima () for short, formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until the Iranian revolution of 1979, is an Iranian state-controlled media corporation that holds a monopo ...

Peyman Jebelli Peyman Jebelli (; born 1966 in Shemiran) is an Iranian official who is serving as the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. Jabali was appointed as the head of the Iranian Broadcasting Corporation on 27 October 2021 by a decree of Ali ...

* Minister of

Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Iran The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, or Ministry of ICT () established in 1908, is responsible for Mail, postal services, telephones and information technology in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Laying out and implementin ...

: Sattar Hashemi * Minister of

Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (, ''Vezârat-e Farhang va Ershâd-e Eslâmi'') ("Ministry of CIG") is a ministry responsible for managing access to media that, in the view of the Iranian government or the ministry, violates Iranian ...

Abbas Salehi Seyyed Abbas Salehi () is an Iranian scholar, journalist and current Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance since 2024. He was vice-minister from 2013 until 2017 which also served as acting Minister of Culture from 19 October until 1 November ...

* Minister of

Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran) The Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) is the government ministry of science, research and technology in Iran. State-run (non-medical) universities of Iran are under the direct supervision of Iran's Ministry of Science, Researc ...

: Hossein Simaee Sarraf * Minister of

Ministry of Education (Iran) The Ministry of Education of Iran (, ''Vezârat-e Âmôzesh vâ Parvâresh-e Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Iran'') (lit. Ministry of Teaching and Growing of the Islamic Republic of Iran) established in 1964, is an Iranian government body (department) re ...

Alireza Kazemi Alireza Kazemi () born in Mashhad is an Iranian politician, who is the current Minister of Education since August 2024. He was the former Deputy Minister of Education of Iran and the acting head of the Ministry of Education of Iran in the governm ...

* Minister of

Ministry of Intelligence (Iran) The Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran (), also known as the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), is the primary intelligence agency, and secret police, secret police force, of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a ...

Esmaeil Khatib Esmaeil Khatib (born 1961) is an Iranian cleric and politician who has been serving as the minister of intelligence since August 2021. He is the eighth official to hold the post. Early life and education Khatib was born in Qaen, South Khorasan ...

* Minister of

Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (Iran) The Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL; ) is the defence ministry of Iran and part of the country's executive branch. It thus reports to the President of Iran, not to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces. Un ...

Aziz Nasirzadeh Aziz Nasirzadeh (; born 1965) is an Iranian military officer and the Iranian Minister of Defense since August 2024. He was Deputy of Chief of Staff for the Iranian Armed Forces from September 2021 to 2024, and the commander of the Iranian Air F ...

* Vice President for Science and Technology:

Hossein Afshin Hussein, Hossein, Hussain, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein, Hussin, Hoessein, Houcine, Hocine or Husain (; ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-N (), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", "handsome" or ...

* Chairman of the Cultural Commission of the

Islamic Consultative Assembly The Islamic Consultative Assembly (), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the unicameral national legislative body of Iran. The parliament currently consists of 290 representatives, an i ...

: Morteza Aghatehrani * Head of

Islamic Development Organization The Islamic Development Organization (Persian language, Persian: سازمان تبلیغات اسلامی) is an Iranian religious and cultural organization. It was created by Rouhollah Khomeini after the Iranian Revolution, 1979 Revolution in Ira ...

Mohammad Qomi Mohammad Qomi (Persian: محمد قمی), also known as Hujjat al-Islam (Mohammad) Qomi (born in 1980), is an Iranian Shia cleric and the head of Islamic development organization who has been recently appointed (at the age of 38) instead of Seyye ...

* Commander of

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is a multi-service primary branch of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, Iranian Armed Forces. It was officially established by Ruhollah Khom ...

Hossein Salami Hossein Salami (; 1960 – 13 June 2025) was an Iranian military officer who served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from 2019 until 2025 when he was killed by an Israeli airstrike during the Iran–Is ...

* Commander of

Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran The Police Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran, abbreviated as Faraja ( ), is the uniformed police force in Iran. The force was created in early 1992 by merging the Shahrbani (, ), Gendarmerie (, ), and Islamic Revolutionary Committees (, ) ...

Ahmad-Reza Radan Ahmad-Reza Radan () is an Iranian military officer who has served as Iran's Chief of police, the chief commander of the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran since January 2023. He was deputy commander of the Police Command of ...

Prosecutor-General of Iran The prosecutor-general of Iran (or attorney-general), in the judicial system of Iran, is a "just ''mujtahid''" appointed by the head of the judiciary in consultation with the judges of the Supreme Court to serve for a period of five years. As ...

: Mohammad Movahedi-AzadFamiliarity with the Supreme Council of Cyberspace
tebyan.net, Retrieved 7 October 2020 * Head of Iran's National Organization for Passive Defense: Gholamreza Jalali

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Natural-members

Legal-members

See also

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