The Iraqi Minister of Communications asked the Federal Council of Ministers to ban TikTok in the country.

Iraqi Minister of Transportation and Communications Hiyam Yasri said Monday 25-3-2024 "He has submitted a request to the Council of Ministers to disable the TikTok app.

"Iraq is no longer on the list of countries with the highest number of visitors to porn sites," he said.

He explained, "The number of visitors to the porn site fell to 89 million in February from more than half a billion in December,".


"In banning inappropriate movie apps and websites, the ministry faces a number of obstacles, including the failure to pass the necessary laws in parliament and the lack of funds allocated to the ministry," he said.

he said, “To ban such content on social networks, there are advanced tools that can conduct deep searches and find the videos to be removed, but their ministry does not have that tool, so he asked the Parliament to increase the ministry's budget"