The Internet in Iran is managed by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran and the Supreme Council of Cyberspace of Iran. The head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran is elected by the Supreme Leader of Iran. The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei believes that the Internet is invented by the enemies of Iran to use it against the Iranian people. The sixth president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei agreed to internet censorship in Iran. Therefore, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered to increase internet censorship. Also in 2005 - 2018, Ayatollah Khamenei sent letters one after another to the presidents of Iran, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran, some famous Iranian politician, the Revolutionary Guards (Sepah), and ordered them to form a national intranet that called the National Information Network. However, Ayatollah Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad share posts a lot on social networks those have been blocked in Iran such as Facebook or Twitter, and that has made the tourists have traveled to Iran and even the Iranian people more dissatisfied. National Information Network (NIN) was unveiled during the 2019 Iranian protests. The National Information Network works like the Great Firewall of China, but with stricter monitoring and watchfully controlling of users. After YouTube was blocked in Iran, the Aparat website, an Iranian online video-sharing platform was founded. But in 2020, due to the activity of one of the users of Aparat, its CEO was sentenced to 10 years in prison. business of selling virtual private networks (VPNs), SOCKS, and proxy servers in Iran is worth millions of U.S. dollars due to the large demand. The twelfth minister of Iran Communication State announced that the lucrative business of selling VPNs and proxies has had huge profits for its manufacturers and retailers, and there are efforts to stop some businesses.