Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif mocked after telling followers to watch his TED talk on YouTube, which is blocked in Iran

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Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif mocked after telling followers to watch his TED talk on YouTube, which is blocked in Iran
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Zarif shared the YouTube link on Instagram, which is also on Iran's banned website list alongside Twitter, Facebook and Telegram.

was filmed at the Amirkabir University in Tehran earlier this month. Titled,"Four mistakes in our negotiations we need to be aware of," the talk drew on Zarif's wide experience in international negotiations to offer viewers advice on their own interpersonal interactions.

This does not stop the country's leaders from using such services though. Of course international outreach is vital for a foreign minister like Zarif—who also has 1.2 million Twitter followers—or Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who can reach 2 million followers on Instagram and another 840,000 on Twitter.

Iran's regime retains an authoritarian grip on the country's internet, fearful of active-measures influence from foreign powers and hoping to restrict its citizens' ability to organize against the government. In past periods of unrest, the government hasThe country is now building its own national intranet—first proposed in 2010—to exert greater control over what its citizens can access and share.

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