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Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours
- curiousObject 5mo agoThat’s unbroken 6 weeks of no direct access for almost everyone Of course information does still get in and out, but that is severely throttled
- metalman 5mo agoand during that time those people waging war against Iran, murdered one Irainian child every 30 minuits, not counting the other children murdered by the genociders in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. predictable down vote but listen up, Iran has made a tactical move in this, but the implication is that they, like Afganistan are consideriing a strategic move, and many others are watching. more down voting, which is an excellent demonstration of how the internet is used by those that "own" it
- turdistheword 5mo ago[dead]
- ksajadi 5mo ago- "Everyone is crazy and the way you can tell they are crazy is to see if they tell me I am wrong". - "You are wrong! Everyone is not crazy" - "You see? I told you. Everyone is crazy"
- metalman 5mo agoyou made me smile, because everyone IS crazy, but many of them are still decent and kind and can see there own crazy enough to make room in the world for others crazyness. and then there are the those who espouse the madness of a genocidal cultic insanity, or perhaps even more distubing, play a cunning game of distraction and apology for murder and hate
- reliabilityguy 5mo agoIs Iranian infra centralized on the similar fashion like in Belarus?
- alephnerd 5mo agoIt's way more centralized. Iran has been rolling out the National Information Network (essentially a whitelisted internet) since the Green Revolution [0] back in 2009-12. Iran has a surprisingly robust domestic ecosystem of hyperscalers [1] and telco infra [6][7] built out over the past decade with limited outside involvement and a severe sanctions regime, and have even started exporting Iranian IT services to Uganda [2], Kenya [3], South Africa [4], Venezuela [5], Russia [8], and China [8]. Iran also uses a two-tier SIM card system - ideologically vetted individuals get a "white" SIM which gives full ingress/egress outside the NIN and others have a normal SIM that can be blacklisted from egressing outside the NIN. Notice how Iranian websites have a page saying "Transferring to Website" - that's the gateway page for the NIN. [0] - https://citizenlab.ca/irans-national-information-network/ https://citizenlab.ca/irans-national-information-network/ [1] - https://www.arvancloud.ir/fa https://www.arvancloud.ir/fa [2] - https://tvbrics.com/en/news/uganda-and-iran-to-boost-ict-co-operation/ https://tvbrics.com/en/news/uganda-and-iran-to-boost-ict-co-... [3] - https://mail.techreviewafrica.com/public/news/1361/kenya-and-iran-discuss-ict-cooperation https://mail.techreviewafrica.com/public/news/1361/kenya-and... [4] - https://www.samenacouncil.org/samena_daily_news?news=64545 https://www.samenacouncil.org/samena_daily_news?news=64545 [5] - https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/06/752585/Iranian-fiber-optic-factory-in-Venezuela-begins-operations--ICT-Minister https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/06/752585/Iranian-fibe... [6] - https://zmc.co.ir/ https://zmc.co.ir/ [7] - https://www.rayafiber.com/en/home https://www.rayafiber.com/en/home [8] - https://www.kharon.com/brief/iran-sanctions-maximum-pressure-tech-exports https://www.kharon.com/brief/iran-sanctions-maximum-pressure...
- JohnnyLarue 5mo agoBombing civilian infrastructure didn't turn the Internet back on? I don't believe that.
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- gambutin 5mo agoNoteworthy: It’s not that no one in Iran has no access. Actually some have internet access via “white SIM cards” (1). Reportedly 50,000 or so. Essentially, they’ve created a two-tier system controlling who can access the internet. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_SIM_Card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_SIM_Card
- traceroute66 5mo ago> Noteworthy: It’s not that no one in Iran has no access. Actually some have internet access via “white SIM cards” Erm, dude, you did look at the graph on the Mastodon post linked to, right ? You see that bit where it falls off a cliff to 0% netblocks ? "white SIM card" or not, you're not getting internet if there's no BGP routes being announced. The only way around 0 BGP announcements would be satellite... I suspect your "white SIM card" was a pre-war status-quo ...
- dataflow 5mo ago> Erm, dude, you did look at the graph on the Mastodon post linked to, right ? You see that bit where it falls off a cliff to 0% netblocks ? Not sure if we're all looking at the same plot, but I see things hovering above zero, not exactly at zero.
- payamb 5mo agoThat’s not the reality. Pro regime “white simcard” people have been spreading their propaganda since start of the war on twitter, instagram and elsewhere.
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- BariumBlue 5mo agoApparently there have been IRGC and basij curfew patrols shooting at buildings / windows of people who sing or shout anti regime songs and slogans. Apparently they are also (at least in some cases) dressing as women to avoid airstrikes. There has been very little photage and info coming out of Iran though. I still believe the Iranian government is more afraid of it's people than of the US and Israel - the US and Israel can bomb leadership and materiel, but without ground troops, regime capitulation is unlikely, unless the populace can themselves overthrow the govt (though that is hard to do when there is a major imbalance in who has guns).
- jncfhnb 5mo agoThis is all likely true. Although I feel people undersell how they work together. Iranians broadly hate their government, yeah. But the thing that gets them rioting is economic failure. Which the strikes have exacerbated. Social media is swarmed by people saying it’ll be like Iraq and Iranians will hate the US for its actions. I’m not convinced. My small anecdata of Iranian friends with contacts in Iran agrees with me. I think we could see regime change within a decade.
- cpncrunch 5mo agoWhy wont a general strike work? Not enough support? People have never had freedom, so dont understand they have 100% ability to bring down govt if they wanted?
- payamb 5mo agoDue to years of corruption and mismanagement, leading to high inflation and high prices most people are below poverty line and living pay check to pay check and they won’t be able to literally feed themselves
- asdff 5mo agoThis is the thing that is so curious about the concept of the general strike/siezing the means of production. The workers already have seized the means of production. I mean truly. Owner does not have the keys. Some manager unlocks the building for the day. Workers show up to the farm. Everything gets done every day whether the owner is there or across the globe or some dubious llc entity. The only thing the owner functionally does, is to be an address on file to send their cut of the profits. Nothing more than a specially designated furnace to burn a subset of the monthly revenue, at least in terms of their actual interaction with their business and their businesses interaction with themselves. Socialism is as easy as people waking up, going to work as usual, and not mailing that check to the owner. And having the owner go to the police, who in turn tell them "Awe shucks." These are the only conditions for socialism in 2026. Same as they were in 1926. So tantalizingly possible if people were just on board with it and not beholden to capitalism. Propaganda is why there are a subset of workers who will continue to diligently burn revenue for the owner, and why police will ultimately make the choice to sacrifice their own lives for the petty profits of this ownership class versus consider their own position in this world.
- traceroute66 5mo agoLooking at it from an alternative angle, the Iranians are not stupid. They know leaving the internet online would be beneficial for their adversaries, perhaps especially as Israel is one of them, and Israel's use of cyber is no secret. So by killing the internet, they have an instant air-gap firewall. Making the most of the levers they have fighting asymmetric warfare.
- jncfhnb 5mo agoIt’s very economically harmful to be disconnected. That’s the downside
- traceroute66 5mo ago> It’s very economically harmful to be disconnected. That’s the downside I mean, sure. But then being at war is also economically harmful. :)
- jncfhnb 5mo agoI guess. But the framing here is not “clever, innovative IRGC” so much as oppressive regime fucking over it’s people to retain control.
- traceroute66 5mo ago> But the framing here is not “clever, innovative IRGC” I am not seeking to frame anything here. Nor am I interested in getting involved in the broader areas on discussion on the subject. The first few words of my original post made it clear "Looking at it from an alternative angle". An alternative way of wording that would be "devil's advocate". I am just supplying a perfectly reasonable alternative perspective, I am not asking anyone to agree or disagree with it, I am just making a "food for thought" statement.
- jncfhnb 5mo agoI don’t see any alternative angle though. Nobody thinks the IRGC is doing this for fun.
- pcf 5mo agoEvery Iranian I know support the current US/Israeli war against the Islamic Republic. They say things like "no matter what it takes, no matter how many of us die, we must be free again, this time we will win against the terrorist regime" (paraphrased).
- RobotToaster 5mo agoIt's easy to say that when you're a shah supporter living in the west.
- sillyfluke 5mo agoIt's always good to state if the Iranians you know are currently residing in Iran, for clarity. Your paraphased quote also implies that there must be actual regime change for the deaths to be worth it (ie, no IRGC).
- orangeboats 5mo agoIt's scary that your 1-minute old comment got insta-downvoted.
- 0x1ceb00da 5mo agoIt isn't scary it's obvious. Majority of people on HN are american. Obviously the government would want to control the narrative here.
- tredre3 5mo agoThe government doesn't have to do anything at all. The majority of Americans tuly see themselves as the world's savior, freeing countries and installing democracy everywhere it goes. They drank the kool aid entirely, 50+ years ago and the government has been coasting on that American moral superiority ever since.
- gambutin 5mo agoIf only they had internet so that we could ask them!
- aaronbrethorst 5mo ago42 days, for anyone else not accustomed to thinking in terms of large numbers of hours.
- jauntywundrkind 5mo agoThis is the sort of thing the Arsenal of Democracy should be building against. We should be deploying tools to give people voices in hostile places, to get messages out, to collaborate.
- overfeed 5mo agoSee age verification, anti-pornography, and anti-VPN laws popping up like weeds all over democratic countries. Governments everywhere are pushing for more control over who and how people communicate over the Internet, so they can mute certain voices without shutting down the internet like Iran when they deem it necessary
- UltraSane 5mo agoIt isn't an outage it is an intentional block. Iranian ISPs actually stop announcing all IPv4 prefixes into BGP.
- amir734jj 5mo agoI'm an Iranian American. There is no Internet. Only people who work for the government have limited Internet. We can't call phone numbers in Iran. They can call our phone in the US (they will get a sms or call shortly after ending the call saying that we the government was monitoring the conversation) and these calls are very expensive for them. This situation is not sustainable. There are many businesses in Iran that rely on Internet. Millions of Iranian live outside of the country and haven't been able to talk to their family and friends. Not sure how long will this internet blockade will continue.
- yonatan8070 5mo agoThe Iranian regieme shot (and I can only assume continues to shoot) citizens at a large scale, so I doubt small businesses collapsing or people being unable to talk to family and friends is what's going to make them re-enable the internet, which will also make it was easier for citizens to organize and overthrow the regieme.