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Iran]," an Iranian woman vacationing for a long weekend in Turkey with her children told NPR. Milani calls the internet blackout a war crime because it leaves tens of millions of Iranians unable to avoid
Iran has been in digital darkness as the government maintains one of the longest-running national internet shutdowns ever recorded worldwide. The current blackout began after the US and Israel launched airstrikes on 28 February
internet shutdown since the start of the war have cost the Iranian economy more than $1.8bn. The blackout has particularly hit female earners. Only one in nine working-age women in Iran were
News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, wrote about the potential of internet cable disruption. It noted the concentration of Persian Gulf countries’ communication infrastructures in the strait of Hormuz and said
news agency. For his part, President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Tehran will continue dialogue within the framework of international law and has blamed Washington for “excessive demands” that have derailed any agreement, including on [Hezbollah
blackout, the government has said that it holds no authority over the matter, instead pinning the blame on the Supreme National Security Council. Afshin Kolahi, the head of an Iran Chamber of Commerce commission, told
Iran within hours of the first bombs falling in downtown Tehran on February 28. The move has seen internet connectivity reduced to about 2 percent of pre-war levels at most, according to monitors
blackout imposed more than two months ago has made it increasingly difficult to communicate with people inside Iran, although some have been able to send out messages, including voice notes sent through encrypted channels
news agency, Tasnim, described it as a "bad and incomplete tweet that created misleading ambiguity about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz". Araghchi stressed the waterway was only open to ships authorised
blackout affecting 90 million-plus citizens, which followed a similar 20-day outage during [deadly nationwide protests](/news/2026/2/18/iranian-families-mark-protest-killings-as-schools-observe-strikes) in January. Despite the economic pain and mounting [public frustration](/news/2026/4/5/frustration-grows-as-irans-wartime-internet-shutdown-breaks-grim-record) the outage has caused
News: "We could take out every one of their bridges in one hour" along with every power plant. But, he added, "we don't want to do that". On this 12-hour journey