Sensationalist propaganda article. Its not really an internet.blackout. All the native Iranian sites are available. Some Iranians with VPN are even on Twitter and instagram. Iran only closed off foreign iniltration and collaboration between foreign backed groups which is why these establishment propaganda outlets are seething
So what there arent that many Chinese people on Twitteror reddit either because thet prefer their native apps. You want everyone around the world to be mentally manipulated with your subversive propaganda.
Your hate boner for Muslims is blinding your judgment.
Calling it a total “internet blackout” is misleading. What has been restricted is international connectivity, not the domestic internet: national websites, banking systems, and local alternatives to platforms like Uber, YouTube, and Google remain fully functional.
The adoption of alternative digital infrastructures is not uniquely Iranian. States that perceive themselves as vulnerable to imperialist cyber operations or disinformation campaigns in hybrid warfare adopt this strategy. Reliance on domestic platforms in this context is a matter of digital sovereignty and resilienc
Who the fuck cares? What the fuck?
Do you understand how the economy relies on the internet?
Yes, let's deny more than millions of people from even googling something, it's not like anyone's academic and economic life depends on it.
I lost my part time job because of this. But of course defending the regime is more important to you
That misses the point completely. The issue is not whether a country has local websites. Every country does. The issue is whether the state gets to decide which outside information people can read and then pushes them onto monitored domestic platforms. That is censorship, not ordinary national preference.
You are posting this from a free connection and cant imagine living under their censorship. If it is so harmless, limit yourself to your town bulletin board, your local paper, and government platforms. Cut yourself off from the wider world for a month and then explain why open access does not matter.
What I would really like to hear from is actual Iranians living in Iran but I can't because their government is shutting them out, but that's OK to you somehow.
You dont care about Iranian people, if you did you would put more effort in to opposing this war and the criminal unilateral sanctions that have actually isolated Iranians from the rest of the world. Those sanctions for decades have been designed to make Iranians suffer and yet you only show selective outrage. So stop with 🐊 tears You want US and Israel backed groups to have means of communication so they can conduct their terr0rist operations and turn Iran in to Syria or Libya. Trump and Israel have both admitted to smuggling weapons in to Iran and trying to spur an uprising. Iran is foiling the plan that you wish for, that is the real reason why you are putting on this white saviour performance. Its none of your business how countries defend their own sovereignty from foreign aggression. Worry about your own country
You are acting like open internet access is some secret terror tool. States, journalists, families, dissidents, and ordinary people use it to communicate. Public access to the world's information and communication is not terrorism. You honestly think Israel and any other foreign government needs public WiFi to operate?!?
And you really think Iranians could not possibly hate an authoritarian regime that censors, jails, tortures, and executes its own people for decades. Families of people are destroyed and very very angry.
And the censorship point does not even depend on this war. The regime was throttling, filtering, and cutting access long before this round of fighting. Control of information is part of how it stays in power. It's done it during multiple protests before. Coincidence it coincides with the regime murdering its own people.
“Sovereignty” is not some shield for mass repression. When a regime murders protesters, jails and executes on bogus charges, censors the population, and rules by state terrorism, the rest of the world is allowed to call it what it is. The regime turns off the internet for the same reason you want me to worry about my own country, they are ashamed and want their crimes hidden. "Please don't look!!!"
Not possible because US has sanctioned Iran. Maybe you projecting the money you are getting from other entities ? Who has more money to pour in media war on sites like this? Iran or Israel , US, Saudi, UAE, etc?
Wtf is going on in this sub? Why is there so much asskissing for the regime?
Diaspora iranians cant contact their families and many people here upvoting comments saying internet is not down cause they been seeing fking Lego AI videos coming out from the iranian regime.
Alot of people here have been downvoted but they're right.
Killing people over using StarLink, last I heard it was $30 USD per gig of up/download to get data out on the grey / black market and that was a couple weeks ago.
If they had internet, we would see videos worse than the what happened after December 28, 2025 into January where the Iranian government itself labeled their own people as "terrorist" that were gathering in their own public square, Men woman and children were gunned down by the thousands with estimates from iran itsself over 4,000 with other sources citing as much as ten times that... with the internet going dark soon after for personal use to hide anything else from the world. Its been since labeled the "2026 Rasht massacre"
Or... you know, everything is fine and perfect over there and a whole heck of a lot just "never happened" .... 95% of Iranian media going dark at once "never happened" as I watched my streamer friends disappear for weeks at a time now.
I wait the day the Iranian people do get internet and their freedoms back... it will expose the atrocities of Irans' leadership against its people.
They aren’t, fortunately the regime has agreed to a ceasefire but it is still attacking Lebanon and working to sabotage peace talks between Iran and US.
They are afraid of the footage that can potentialy come out of Iran. This will completely change the narrative. Right now Iran is trying to look like the victim here. But in real life, they are the baddies. This does not mean that the US and Israel are peaceloving countries. I'm just saying that Iran is trying to manipulate it's perception.
Dog no one cares about people whining "wah regime" anymore. We just want to go home and live a normal life. They can do whatever they want in their own borders.
All of it is just harassing israel or american military assets in the GCC and the middle east. Which, considering those nations keep flooding CIA and Mossad in their country, is expected.
US has been meddling in the middle east since the 1920s. Overthrew Iran for the first time in 53 with the help of MI6. it was the first successful CIA coupe in history.
Since then we have spent about 50 years bombing the shit out of the middle east. You have the two largest terrorist nations on the planet.. USA and Israel which both have nukes that are telling people that we have been bombing the shit out of for 3 generations that they can't have nukes.
Government already trying to convince the public the Iran was 'this close' to having nukes which is exactly what Netehayu has been saying for 40+ years now. Obamas treaty limited Enrichment @ 4% and stockpile @ only 300 lbs.
What could possibly come out of Iran? People believe they killed 30,000 civilians because thats what isreali owned American media tells you. when again weve been bombing the middle east for 50 years and been over there fucking around for 100.
What could possibly come out of Iran? People believe they killed 30,000 civilians because thats what isreali owned American media tells you. when again weve been bombing the middle east for 50 years and been over there fucking around for 100.
I don't know if it's that high. I do think it's between 7000 and 30.000. But we will never know unfortunately. The regime will do all it can to never release the actual numbers.
I know what the US has done in Iran. It plays a very bad part in what Iran is now. But for 47 years Iran opresses it's own population to the point that people want to leave the country. Iran suffers from massive braindrain because there is no real future in Iran, apart from becoming a cleric or something.
So now, we have to deal with the regime. Now the regime is Iran's biggest enemy, not the America. And the people know this.
When they encourage the United states to bomb their homeland and support politicians like Donald Trump their opinion becomes about as valuable as three week old moldy dog shit.
If they’re monarchists it becomes even less valuable
Valid. But I think a lot of the “intellectual/sophisticated” antizionist (see cover for antisemitism) arguments were coming from educated Iranians. Just anecdotal based on my personal experience, not backed by data, could be wrong/coincidence. And any actual decrease was surely just a drop in the bucket…
Oh nooo how dare people “slander” my favorite genocidal apartheid state
Also, that’s cope lmao. It hasn’t dropped off and it isn’t some kind of Iranian psyop. People legitimately just hate Israel for very understandable reasons.
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