An Iranian parliament member criticized the creation of a website named “Eslaj” in this country and said: “There is no need to set people against each other and invite them to spy on one another.”

Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran’s parliament, in response to a question from the news website Khabaronline, referred to the background of this action in the early years of the Iranian Revolution: “Maybe in the early days of the Revolution, because we did not have the official institutions and the necessary structure, such actions could be justified, but today the situation is different.”

He also did not consider the mere presence of people in rallies against the Islamic Republic to be a criminal act.

Last week, Iranian state and security media unveiled a system called Eslaj; a system for monitoring Iranians abroad.

The call for introducing opponents is a familiar pattern, dating back to the first years after the Revolution, and in recent years it has also been used to identify protesters and opponents of mandatory hijab.

But it is still not clear which institution is in charge of the new system, and how the personal information published on it was obtained.

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