Iran reinstates some internet access but restrictions remain for most

Key Takeaways

• Not all data centres are back online while internet protocols remain blocked, restricted or ‘whitelisted’.
• Tehran, Iran – Authorities in Iran have reinstated some internet access three months after taking the country offline at the start of the war with the United States and Israel, but restrictions remain in place for most people.
• The Iranian government said last week that it had started a process to bring internet access back to a pre-war level, which was already very restricted as Iran was at the time still coming off an earlier 20-day shutdown imposed during deadly nationwide protests in January.
• Last week’s move ended more than 2,000 hours of near-total internet shutdown in the country of 90 million people, the longest-ever nationwide blackout in the world.
• But according to numerous user reports, local media accounts and expert analysis, Iranians’ free access to the global internet is far from restored.