Iran’s internet connectivity was currently running at “around 1% of ordinary levels,” monitor group Netblocks said on Thursday, leaving most Iranians struggling to access basic information, navigation tools or communication apps.
Those who had successfully connected using virtual private networks, or VPNs, to circumvent the controls had received warnings over their phones.
Calls from overseas to Iranian mobile phones or landlines were near-impossible, making the task of reporting on the conflict difficult for journalists who face tight controls while working in the country.
Inside Iran, simple tasks like checking in on relatives, driving with navigation tools such as Google Maps, or checking websites for information had become impossible.
Reading the news and comments are so weird about this. Both countries are the good and bad guy, both supress and liberate their people, both censor their internet, both arrest and kill innocent civilians - can you imagine if the US and Iran teamed up? We’d all be fucked
Why is Iran not allowing internet usage in the country?
To keep people from organizing protests.
And to cover up their atrocities. We still don’t know if they killed 10,000 protestors or 36,000.
Surely to control information leaks (same way Palestine occupiers do to the press) and prevent cyber security risks. They know their infrastructure can be and was breached in many ways, be it the tampered pagers or the cctv network. First thing I’d if I knew I was hacked would be to pull the cable.
I have no love for the US, but Iranians deserve regime change.
Innocent people are innocent people. It doesn’t matter if they’re in the minority or lack the power to defend themselves against oppression.
Regime change is pointless when all of the powers poised to take over are no better. They deserve regime abolition but I don’t see how they get there from here.
If anyone in Iran learned about this by e-mail from a government address, hope they had read receipts disabled.
