Iran Launches State Sponsered Version of YouTube

Iran has launched its own video-sharing website to replace YouTube, which has been censored in Iran since 2009. Called 'Mehr', meaning affection in Farsi, the site aims to attract Persian speaking users and promote Iranian culture, although functionality is said to be limited and the site is heavily monitored by the Iranian government.
The move comes as Iran has been increasing its attempts to prevent its citizens from accessing several foreign websites, claiming they undermine their Islamic regime. Iran has come under criticism over these actions, as other countries accuse Iran of trying to implement an "electronic curtain" and cut its citizens off from the world. Iran is currently working on a walled off national intranet cut off from the worldwide Internet, that they say will be "clean of un-Islamic content". You can read more about it here.