Iranian authorities have said they are considering "gradually" restoring internet access after imposing an unprecedented communications shutdown 10 days ago, which rights groups say masked a violent p

A former US State Department official called the idea of Iran severing global internet access permanently "plausible and terrifying. " Iran is planning to limit global internet access to specific vetted individuals,

There should be no expectation of reopening international internet access, and even afterwards, users’ access to international internet will never return to its previous form,”

Blackout imposed amid brutal crackdown likely to last until March 20, and authorities are implementing plan to turn country into a 'communication black hole,' says Filterwatch The post Iranian regime plans to permanently cut people off from internet — watchdog appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Iran is enduring its most extensive internet blackout on record, activists say, raising fears that Tehran’s crackdown on protesters may persist despite assurances it would ease punishments.

The Iranian government is reportedly planning to permanently sever its citizens from the global internet — confining them instead to a state-run system as part of a continued crackdown on dissent following the Islamic regime’s slaughtering of thousands of protesters.

Limited internet access has returned in Iran, a monitor said Sunday, 10 days after authorities imposed a communications blackout that rights groups have said was aimed at masking a violent

In a post on Saturday evening, social media user ‘Hmting’ said her sister ‘Bing’ had borrowed a friend’s phone to report that she was safe.