Iran’s government said it blocked connections to the outside world as a national security measure
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Vice-president Aref said resuming connection will mean “smart services will be streamlined … and the obstacles to knowledge-based development and scientific authority will be removed,” but didn’t explain why the government decided to end outage now.
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Internet analyst Doug Madory rated it as far more significant, because Iran’s population is 15 times larger than Libya’s
Outage-watchers at network observability outfit Kentik believe Iran’s disconnection is the longest such incident since Libya’s six-month shutdown in 2011
Iran’s government has decided the nation should reconnect to the global internet
Iran’s government said it blocked connections to the outside world as a national security measure
Summary
Traffic floods back, without much of an explanation. Iran’s government has decided the nation should reconnect to the global internet. In the days after the USA and Israel attacked Iran in February, traffic from the Gulf nation to the global internet dropped to one percent of usual volumes, with the remaining trickle of traffic thought to be the result of a policy allowing access to a small group of mostly government and military users. On Tuesday, Iran's vice-president Mohammad Reza Aref used his X account to announce “the first step toward free and regulated access to cyberspace has been taken.” Not long afterwards, NetBlocks and Cloudflare both recorded substantial traffic flowing to and from Iran for the first time in 88 days. Outage-watchers at network observability outfit Kentik believe Iran’s disconnection is the longest such incident since Libya’s six-month shutdown in 2011.