On Wednesday, Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Reza Taqipour said the project's “Phase Zero” would be launched and become operational within the next two weeks, IRNA reported.
“In light of the promises to increase internet bandwidth, this project will be tested on some users until its next phases become operational based on the commitments of the Fifth [Five-Year Economic] Development Plan,” the minister said.
The five-year plan is part of the Islamic Republic's long-term roadmap for sustainable growth.
Also known as the “Clean Web,” the initiative seeks protection against the loose commitment to ethics and morality across the World Wide Web.
The project is aided by several think tanks, which have been set up to analyze it from different aspects.
“The starting point of a clean web will be Iran and then it will be offered to all humanity,” Taqipour said in February.
Tehran has also undertaken a project to develop a national search engine dubbed “Ya Haq” by early 2012, which can be accessed through the domestic intranet.