Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, a prominent Shia scholar, has said 3G Internet is immoral and inhumane, Iranian sites reported [1]on Tuesday.
#Iran [2]‘s grand Ayatollah Makarem: “high-speed internet & 3G is against Sharia & moral ethics” http://t.co/kbZ3poSfJH [3] pic.twitter.com/04IPVBXiXK [4]
— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) August 25, 2014 [5]
Iran has [6] the highest number of internet users in the Middle East, but its average data speed is about a tenth of the global average.Internet speeds in Iran have accelerated [7] by 30 percent since summer 2013, after Hassan Rohani won the presidential election.