iGap is a free Iranian

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for

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and personal computers. iGap allows users to interact with each other and exchange information through

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, audio and other types of messages. iGap also supports

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-based voice calls over the internet. iGap is developed for

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and

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Open-source Clients

iGap has published the source code of its Android and iOS client on

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. However, back-end source code is

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Response

Supreme leader of Iran

Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

referred to this messenger on his personal website. and

Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi ( fa, محمدجواد آذری جهرمی; born 16 September 1982) is an Iranian politician and former intelligence officer who served as the Minister of Information and Communications Technology in the administration ...

as the ICT Minister of

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

has joined this messaging application in September 2017 in order to support local social networking. Earlier, the Minister has claimed to support local Messengers when he was deputy of the ICT Minister.

External links

iGap in App Store

iGap in Google Play

References

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