Internet Starts Coming Back In Iran After Months-Long Blackout (bbc.com) 44
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Internet access has started to be restored in Iran after being cut off almost three months ago, the country's first vice-president has said. "The first step toward free and regulated access to cyberspace has been taken," Mohammad Reza Aref wrote on X on Tuesday. Internet monitoring groups Netblocks and Kentik reported "partial" restoration around 13:00 GMT, though the latter warned most networks were still down.
The Iranian government cut internet access following the launch of US and Israeli attacks on February 28. Officials suggested the aim was to prevent surveillance, espionage and cyber-attacks. It is one of the longest-running national internet shutdowns ever recorded worldwide. A content creator from Tehran told the BBC that he had been able to connect to the internet using his home WiFi on Tuesday. "The main point is, some of my income will come back," he said.
Netblocks said it was unclear whether the internet return would be sustained, and told the BBC it was consistent with what it had seen when previous blackouts were lifted -- where restoration could take hours. "Access is not universally back to its original state, with some regional variation," said the global internet tracker's research director Isik Mater on Tuesday. She added that there were signs of "more extensive filtering" than prior to January -- when a similar blackout was imposed during the regime's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests -- "including additional restrictions to messaging apps like WhatsApp."
The Iranian government cut internet access following the launch of US and Israeli attacks on February 28. Officials suggested the aim was to prevent surveillance, espionage and cyber-attacks. It is one of the longest-running national internet shutdowns ever recorded worldwide. A content creator from Tehran told the BBC that he had been able to connect to the internet using his home WiFi on Tuesday. "The main point is, some of my income will come back," he said.
Netblocks said it was unclear whether the internet return would be sustained, and told the BBC it was consistent with what it had seen when previous blackouts were lifted -- where restoration could take hours. "Access is not universally back to its original state, with some regional variation," said the global internet tracker's research director Isik Mater on Tuesday. She added that there were signs of "more extensive filtering" than prior to January -- when a similar blackout was imposed during the regime's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests -- "including additional restrictions to messaging apps like WhatsApp."
free and regulated? (Score:3)
Regulared? Yes. Free? Absolutely not.
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Nice typo.
Thanks to Trump (Score:4, Insightful)
When you're at attacked everybody just gathers around the existing power structures. That's what happened in America with 9/11. All of the sudden douche nozzles like George Bush Jr and Rudy Giuliani were considered great people. Both men were on the way out the door politically when 9/11 hit and had very successful careers because of the attack.
The exact same thing happened with the Iranian government. They had serious opposition because they can't feed their people and they were going to have to start giving real concessions and maybe even some semblance of democracy. Trump shit all over that with his staggering incompetence.
There's a thing called a chesterton's fence where you don't take down the fence unless you understand why it was put up. There is a damn good reason why even the stupidest fucking administration's imaginable did not attack Iran.
And now the reasons why are plain for anyone to see. Meanwhile Iran has now demonstrated complete control of the strait of Hormuz meaning they can shut down 1/5 of the world's traffic anytime they want. And we can do fuck all about it because Trump squandered basically all the Goodwill in the world for the United States so he could threaten Greenland and Canada.
Son, are you winning?
I am so fucking tired of winning.
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Every country has problems with the Epstein class. Some more than others.
not *every* country at all. iran, china and russia for instance don't. unless you count the times those reptiles trash putin, which is (i assume) the straws the bbc clasped at to say epstein was, wait for it ... a russian agent. but that was so ridiculous even for their indocrinated populus that even the bbc stopped running that hoax after a week. tragicomical to the extreme.
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A bunch of US states don't have any legal minimum.
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Did someone say nationalize? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/0... [cnbc.com]
In the spirit of trickle down economics, when do I get my share?
There is a difference between nationalization (Score:2)
The big one is that a proper sovereign wealth fund has layers and layers of checks and balances to prevent the money from disappearing into people's pockets. Nothing Trump is done has any of those controls for what I should think are obvious reasons.
That's a sovereign wealth fund which is what you linked to or rather you linked to Trump's corrupt slush fund pretending to be a sovereign wealth fund.
Nationalization is something very different. When you nationalize somethi
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Maybe you could not switch to your AC and in the process, sound more intelligent.
If the AC is 100% an idiot who has a database of your posts, maybe deleting your profile and rejoining would accomplish stuff.
As it is now, the AC and rsilvergun are the same.
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Mark my words Iran will get so much money from this deal that will make a mere $1/2B seem quaint. Art of the deal baby.
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There's a story from Ed McMahon where he was doing a real estate deal with Trump and he just let Trump go on and on and on and when Trump was done blathering he had given up everything and McMahon had gotten everything from the negotiations.
If the Democrats weren't so fucking useless
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Why should anyone try to explain to you that which you intentionally pretend to not understand.
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Trump gave them nukes by tearing up the JCPOA agreement in 2018. https://trumpwhitehouse.archiv... [archives.gov]
Iran internet shutdown to quiet their own people (Score:4, Informative)
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and those begging and pleading with the US to intervene stopped coming out.
Going to need a citation for that one.
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With the cutting off of the internet the videos of killings, dead bodies, and those begging and pleading with the US to intervene stopped coming out.
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Why do you think Trump bragged about arming these 'protesters' with firearms months before while Bessent bragged about running a currency crash scheme?
Misinformation (Score:5, Informative)
The Iranian government cut internet access following the launch of US and Israeli attacks on February 28. Officials suggested the aim was to prevent surveillance, espionage and cyber-attacks.
This is tantamount to misinformation. The regime cut the Internet on January 8th [wikipedia.org]. It was *never* turned back on for the general public. Iran started allowing some country-wide intranet only, with heavy censorship and *no* outbound communication (except for regime figures). There has been no way to communicate with people in Iran anytime since except (a) Starlink (illegal, extremely risky, and subject to jamming) (b) outbound telephone calls (monitored).
Because it started January 8th, it is clear the initial purpose is very different than this states. The protests themselves started in late December. The internet blackout corresponds with nothing else but the regime crackdown in which they murdered tens of thousands of Iranian civilians. The obvious main purpose has been to keep Iranians from sharing about the atrocities.
Is the war related? Of course. It has become only more important as Iran has sought to seize a diplomatic high-ground (or at least equivalency) to maintain full narrative control. And it is true there is an intelligence aspect as well, but more than cyber attacks (how is downing your *own* Internet a win there?) the concern is likely that the Iranian people have been happy to share information to help target the regime, as they did during the previous 12 Day War.
It is malpractice to quote "officials" - if those are indeed "Iranian officials" - and then offer their uncontested view, when they are the ones who blacked out the Internet specifically to be able to offer an uncontested view.
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you're blurting out quite outdated propaganda, those fake news are so old that nobody cares anymore. those painstakingly smuggled in starlink terminals were in the end what blew those agitator cells' covers, they didn't live to explain it, and that regime change attempt failed and is now forgotten. in the meantime usrael started yet another military conflict to change the regime and got their ass royally kicked again. it's about nukes again. holy nukes. i mean, fucking update your script, don't you loosers
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It's documented
orly
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I noticed an uptick on mongodb ads that take up acres of screen real estate.
Precision war isn't exactly batting a 1000 here (Score:1)
but it *is* cheaper than carpet bombing the whole jungle to take out one tent, at least.
Sigh...
Baby Boom in October? (Score:2)
Whatever will young people do if there's nothing to scroll?