Edit: A spokesperson of Aura, Betternet’s parent company, contacted the editor after this story’s release saying: “Contrary to recent media reports, there is not currently, nor has there ever been, an employee by the name of Hamid Rezazadeh at BetterNet or The Pango Group. “You probably already know that with one of the best VPN services you can secure your online anonymity, while bypassing internet restrictions.  What you might not expect is that the government of a country like Iran, where a new draconian internet law will further reduce online freedoms and criminalize circumventing software, is somehow linked with an overseas VPN provider.
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