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Abdolsamad Khorramabadi has not yet spoken about his political views, but the opinions he expresses in his interviews, including the views he expresses in support of filtering, are closer to the views of the principlist faction.

He was one of the proponents of filtering social networks and foreign websites in Iran. The filtering of YouTube was carried out with his support and on the pretext of publishing obscene content.

The story of YouTube's filtering in the fall of 2012, which continues to this day, occurred after the release of a film called "Innocence of Muslims." The release of this film had caused protests in predominantly Muslim countries. In these countries, a group had called for a boycott of YouTube. In response to this event, Iran also cut off access to YouTube for the people of the country.

The office of the judiciary spokesman announced regarding the filtering of the YouTube site: The YouTube site was filtered for offending the feelings of Muslims and publishing an insulting film against the Prophet of Islam and insisting on keeping this film on its site.

Besides YouTube, Khorramabadi was a serious proponent of filtering Telegram in Iran. In a text he published in his personal channel on domestic messaging networks in 2018, he wrote about the success of Telegram filtering in Russia and expressed hope that the same story would be repeated in Iran.

In September 2018, he considered the fact that copycat versions of Telegram (known as Hotgram and Telegram Talaee) were operating in Iran as an example of the incomplete implementation of Telegram's filtering and said that some people were not allowing the law (filtering) to be properly enforced. In another message published a few days earlier - on September 8, 2018 - he had considered the non-filtering of Telegram's subsidiary versions a mockery of the judicial order.

In one of the messages that Abdolsamad Khorramabadi published in his personal account on the Soroush application in October 2018, in support of filtering the Waze navigator, he had called it an Israeli espionage tool and a media tool of Zionism.

A few years earlier, in May 2014, in a similar view, he had also considered the WhatsApp messenger application to be affiliated with espionage services and had defended its filtering.

In an interview with Fars in December 2013, Khorramabadi had called Facebook an enemy of the Islamic Republic system and a promoter of illicit relationships and had defended its filtering.

Because of this approach to internet censorship in Iran, Abdolsamad Khorramabadi has been sanctioned by the European Union and the United States of America.

─ Source: factnameh