{"id":76311,"date":"2026-02-09T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/09\/china-iran-technology-internet-control"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:30:17","slug":"chinese-technology-underpins-irans-internet-control-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76311","title":{"rendered":"Chinese technology underpins Iran\u2019s internet control, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The technologies include facial recognition tools used on Uyghurs in western China, say experts<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s architecture of internet control is built on technologies from China, according to an analysis published by a British human rights organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.article19.org\/resources\/tightening-the-net-chinas-infrastructure-of-oppression-in-iran\/\">report by Article 19<\/a> says the technologies include facial recognition tools used on Uyghurs in western China and a Chinese alternative to the US-based GPS system, BeiDou.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/09\/china-iran-technology-internet-control\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technologies include facial recognition tools used on Uyghurs in western China, say expertsIran\u2019s architecture of internet control is built on technologies from China, according to an analysis published by a British human rights organisation.The re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,50,53,351,448,80,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-china","category-human-rights","category-internet","category-iran","category-protest","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76312,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76311\/revisions\/76312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}