A graphic from NetBlocks shows a smartphone screen depicting internet connectivity outages in Iran as officials enforce a nationwide internet blackout. Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/Getty Images
An internet blackout imposed by Iran’s ruling regime reached its 60th day on Tuesday, as reported by the monitoring organization NetBlocks, leaving residents in “digital darkness.“
NetBlocks reported in a post on X that two months ago, Iranian authorities “restricted access to the global internet.”
The government had earlier executed a large-scale telecommunications blackout this year while conducting the deadliest suppression of its citizens in the 47-year existence of the Islamic Republic. At that moment, rights defenders criticized officials for attempting to prevent individuals within the nation from disclosing the extent and brutality of the abuses to the outside
With the economic pressure from the US-Israeli conflict intensifying in Tehran and retaliatory attacks increasing, Iranians grappling with rising unemployment claim the internet outage has cut off another possible lifeline.
A woman in her 50s, hailing from Isfahan, cautioned that females working from home have limited access to job opportunities online.
Somayeh, teaching German online for years, informed Xenix News, “Nothing functions correctly anymore.”
“The decrease in income is unfortunate, but the ongoing uncertainty is even more troubling.” “You can never predict what will occur next,” she remarked.
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