For the first time since the "green revolution" that followed the 2009 elections in Iran, citizens of the country can access Twitter and Facebook.

Iran's citizens can finally access Twitter and Facebook. Blocked for four years, they were available in some parts of the country on Monday according to multiple local reports and updates. They were available via multiple service providers and some leading observers are speculating that the access could be a technical glitch.

But still, it looks like Iranian officials may have been moving in this direction for some time. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been on Facebook since December and on Instagram since August 2012. Newly elected president Hassan Rouhani has described Internet censorship as "futile."

Many other tech savvy Iranians have been accessing social networks via encryted VPN networks and in January, an Iranian police chief said that the country was "developing software to control social networking websites", which was a clamp down on posts and tweets used to organized anti-government rallies or spread dissent.