Supreme Council of Cyberspace (Iran)

Supreme Council of Cyberspace
Founded7 March 2012 (2012-03-07)
Location
Area served
Cyberspace
Key people
Masoud Pezeshkian, Chairman
Mohammad-Amin Aghamiri, Secretary
Websitehttp://www.majazi.ir/

Supreme Council of Cyberspace (Iran) (Persian: شورای عالی فضای مجازی) is a cyberspace-council which was formed on 26 February 2012 by the decree of Iran's supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei; 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.