Iran starts internet shutdown ahead of possible new protests: report
Reuters – Iranian authorities have shut down mobile internet access to overseas sites in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on…
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In wake of internet shutdown, Iran’s programmers face uncertain future
Bourse and Bazaar | Khosro Kalbasi: About twenty years ago, when Milad Nouri first told his parents and university instructors that he…
Passive Def. chief stresses need to establish national social network
MNA – Head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali pointed to the country’s need to cut dependency on international…
American VPN company urges Trump to ramp up US cyber war on Iran
Press TV – An American VPN research and advisory company has urged US President Donald Trump to ratchet up the country’s acts…
Mobile data gradually restored across Iran after crackdown
Bloomberg | Yasna Haghdoost: Mobile data has been restored in parts of Tehran and other areas as the government gradually rolls back an…
Internet outage forces Iranians to resort to old ways
Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: Iranians struggled to adjust to life offline for almost a week and were forced to resort to…
Iran raps US sanctions on ICT minister
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson condemned the US move to impose sanctions on Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mohammad…
US calls on social media networks to block accounts of Iranian leaders
Radio Farda – The United States has called on social media giants Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to suspend accounts linked to Iranian…
How did Iran’s government pull the plug on the Internet?
Euronews | Helena Skinner & Seana Davis: One of Iran’s biggest internet blackouts means details about the impact of recent protests over fuel price…
Iran’s internet access gradually resumes after protest blackout
Al-Monitor – After four days of a near complete internet blackout, Iranian authorities have begun to restore internet connectivity to the country.…
Iran’s ICT minister reacts to new US sanctions imposed on him
MNA – Iranian Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said he is not the first person to be designated…
Iran internet slowly revives; US sanctions telecom minister
AP — The internet slowly trickled back on in Iran on Friday after a dayslong shutdown by authorities amid protests and unrest…
Iran is offline and there’s not much we can do about it
The Washington Post | Jason Rezaian: On Nov. 15, the government in Tehran raised prices for gasoline — setting off a wave…
Jahromi on internet disruptions
Financial Tribune – Following nationwide protests over the overnight fuel price hike of 200%, Iranian authorities cut off the internet as of…
Iran reconnects internet in one province after shutdown over protests – ISNA
Reuters – The internet has been restored in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, the semi-official ISNA news agency said on Thursday,…
Iran’s internet has been shut off for 4 days and no one knows when it’s coming back
Gizmodo – The government of Iran shut off the internet for virtually everyone in the country on Saturday as protests over fuel…
Tehran says protests subsiding as internet blackout drags on
Al-Monitor – A massive security presence and an internet blackout continue across Iran five days after the government introduced controversial cuts to…
Iran to unblock internet once ‘abuse’ stops: government
AFP – The Iranian government said Tuesday it will unblock the internet only when authorities are sure it will not be abused…
US carting about internet blackout in Iran, pure hypocrisy: Minister
Press TV – Iran’s minister of telecommunications has slammed remarks by a senior US diplomat about internet blackout in Iran, saying it…
Internet restricted in protest-hit Iran: report
AFP – Authorities have restricted internet access in Iran, the semi-official ISNA news agency said on Sunday, after nearly two days of…