over all Iranian components of international web communications. Iranian internal news is censored and web-spans to other countries are blocked, but access to information on internal affairs is allowed to certain persons and institutions, either gratis or for a small fee. Officials, press representatives, and commercial firms can obtain internet facilities, provided they do not transmit political matter from one part of Iran to another. The total number of such users is not large, and most of them are concentrated in Teheran, the capital. Iranian newspapers print little besides official communiqués, and even these are subject to censorship. The number of journals published in the country totals just over a hundred, of which about forty are in Persian, forty in Turkish, and the rest in Arabic. They are read chiefly by persons of education, and circulate among the middle and upper classes.
Original dispatch: In Iran, internet access becomes a luxury for the few