<p>TEHRAN Iranian authorities have restored access to Gmail a week after blocking Google's popular email service.</p><p>The Islamic Republic blocked Gmail last week in response to video clips posted on YouTube of an anti-Islam film that set off deadly protests across the Muslim world -- a ban that sparked a slew of complaints from Internet users and officials in Iran.</p><p>Iran has an estimated 32 million Internet users out of a total population of around 75 million.</p><p>On Monday, Mohammad Reza Aghamiri, a member of governmental Internet watchdog committee, told the semiofficial Mehr news agency that authorities have lifted the Gmail ban after resolving technical problems to separate YouTube and Gmail.</p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/10/01/iran-unblocks-gmail-plans-own-services/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/iran-lifts-gmail-ban-thecircuit/2012/10/01/614decd8-0bdd-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_blog.html">Iran lifts Gmail ban #thecircuit</a> (Washington Post (blog))</p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/iran-gmail-blocked_n_1928448.html?utm_hp_ref=technology">Iran Unblocks Gmail After Members Of Iranian Parliament Complain</a> (Huffington Post)</p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57523359-38/iran-unblocks-gmail-but-still-wants-to-keep-out-youtube/">Iran unblocks Gmail but still wants to keep out YouTube</a> (CNET)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=d0RIY3sygbP5pEMT4Ncq6Fl3l5skM">541 additional articles.</a></p>