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The messaging platform WhatsApp He said Tuesday that the company is “worried” that the application will not be available for people in Iran after state television in the country urged users to eliminate the application.

Iranian officials had warned people to stop using WhatsApp, Telegram and other “location -based applications”, accusing them of being Israel’s “main methods to identify and attack people”, according to a report by the state broadcaster of the Irib’s country earlier on Tuesday.

“We are concerned that these false reports will be an excuse for our services to block at a time when people need them more. All messages that send family and friends in WhatsApp are extremely to extreme encryption, which means that no one except the sender and the recipient have access to those messages, not even WhatsApp,” said a WhatsApp spokesman in a statement to News themezone.

“We do not track its precise location, we do not keep records of who are all messages, and we do not track the personal messages that people send each other,” said WhatsApp spokesman. “We do not provide massive information to any government. For more than a decade, goal has provided consistent transparency reports that include limited circumstances when WhatsApp information has been requested.”

The claim made by Iran’s state station is produced when the country’s Islamic regime seems to be taking energetic measures against the access of the public to the Internet, as the Israel-Iran conflict intensifies.

Israel on Friday launched air attacks Aimed at Iranian nuclear facilities, scientists and superior military commanders, to which Iran responded with dozens of ballistic missiles. Countries have exchanged waves of missile attacks in later days. At least two dozen people have been killed in Israel, according to the Israeli army, and dozens have been injured. Tehran has said that at least 224 people have been killed in Iran since Friday.

The Netblocks Internet monitoring group said its analysis showed a 75% reduction in the use of the Internet throughout the country on Tuesday, the data that the group says “occurs in the midst of a growing conflict with Israel and it is likely to limit the public’s ability to access information at a critical moment.”

WhatsApp is owned by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and the threads. Meta platforms have been previously attacked by Iran’s autocratic government in times of disturbances in the country. In 2022, while the Iranian government faced generalized protests for the death of a 22 -year -old student Mahsa Amini While in the custody of the Iranian police, Meta said that the Iranian authorities had repressed the use of Instagram in the country in an effort to suppress the capacity of protesters to share information.

While WhatsApp is an end -to -end encrypted application, it is not impenetrable. Last month, the Israeli Software Company NSO Group received the order to pay WhatsApp $ 167 million for hay GPS

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