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The business enterprise of marketing virtual non-public networks (VPNs), SOCKS, and proxy servers in Iran is really worth hundreds of thousands (USD) due to their significant need. The twelfth Minister of Information and Communications Technology in Iran declared that the profitable small business of advertising VPNs and proxies has generated substantial income for its makers and shops, and there are endeavours to halt these organizations. The govt and Islamic Revolutionary Guard's reaction has been to mandate the use of Iranian electronic mail devices, block well known world wide web-mail solutions, inhibit encryption use by disabling VPNs and HTTPS, and to ban externally made protection computer software. Starting in mid-2014, the government of then-President Hassan Rouhani sought to relieve internet limits in the country, with Ali Jannati, the lifestyle minister, likening the limits to the ban on fax equipment, video clip recorders, and videotapes just after the 1979 revolution. In December 2016, Iranian Prosecutor Ahmad Ali Montazeri, who heads Iran's web censorship Committee, banned and closed 14,000 internet websites and social networking accounts in Iran. In May 2012 Iran criticized Google for dropping the title "Persian Gulf" from its maps, leaving the element unlabeled.