"'Iran's Internet blackout continues into its third week, despite a brief momentary restoration,' Netblocks, a digital rights watchdog and connectivity monitoring organization, said in a post on X on January 24. 'Online platforms are occasionally whitelisted, and some users have been able to tunnel out [using VPNs or other circumvention tools] over the last couple of days,' it added. A day earlier, the Fars news agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), reported on January 23 that international Internet access would be 'fully restored in all provinces of the country' by tonight."
"Iran's near-total nationwide digital blackout -- ongoing since January 8 -- is thought to be one of the longest in history. Only Sudan's complete shutdown following its October 2021 coup, which lasted about 25 days, is known to have lasted longer. Human rights groups say Tehran's move to cut access to the Internet was intended to conceal human rights violations by Iran's security forces."
Iran's Internet blackout began on January 8 and has persisted into its third week, with only brief restorations and occasional platform whitelisting. Some users have intermittently tunneled out using VPNs and other circumvention tools. A state-aligned news agency reported that international access would be fully restored by the evening of January 23. The shutdown ranks among the longest nationwide blackouts, exceeded only by Sudan's 2021 outage. Human rights groups say the cutoff aimed to conceal security-force abuses, limit protesters' organization, and impede independent verification. HRANA reports 5,137 confirmed deaths, over 7,400 severely injured, and 12,904 deaths under investigation; independent teachers' unions published names of at least 29 schoolchildren said to have been killed.
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