Dodging pressure from all sides, Iran’s minister of communications and information technology seems to have no intention of backing down from his push for transparency.

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi enraged many influential cellphone importers last month by disclosing a list of the ones who allegedly took advantage of the current economic turbulence. Those companies had been granted whopping foreign currency at the official “unified” rate of 42,000 rials per dollar, but they had sold the products for prices calculated on the black market rate of around 79,000 rials per greenback. Ever since, the young minister has been facing mounting criticism, yet apparently not enough pressure to weaken his resolve.

Jahromi faced a new challenge this week after the head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization — which is affiliated with the General Staff of the Armed Forces — claimed that a central Tehran building belonging to the ministry was hosting servers for two new versions of the banned popular smartphone app Telegram. Gholam Reza Jalali is the same general who created controversy by speaking of an Israeli “theft of Iran’s clouds” earlier this month.

Alluding sarcastically to Jalali’s “cloud” remarks, the minister seized the moment as another chance to prove he is adamant in his transparency campaign. “Cloud theft may not be easy to prove, but it’s not hard to prove whether or not servers are stationed on the ninth floor of a ministry building,” he told reporters on the sidelines of an official ceremony in Tehran.