Iran swipe at Web brings angry reply

By Brian Murphy, Nasser Karimi
Published September 30, 2012 4:00am ET
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Iran swipe at Web brings angry reply
FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, Iranian women use computers at an Internet cafe in central Tehran. Iran's cyber monitors often tout their efforts to fight the West's 'soft war' of influence through the web, but trying to ban Google's popular Gmail may have gone too far with complaints coming even from email-starved parliament members. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File) | Vahid Salemi

TEHRAN (AP) — Iran’s cyber monitors often tout their fight against the West’s “soft war” of influence through the Web, but trying to block Google’s popular Gmail appeared to be a swipe too far.

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