Reuters - Iranian authorities have shut down mobile internet access to overseas sites in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday, a day before new protests called for on social media.
Social media posts and some relatives of people killed in unrest last month over hikes in gasoline prices have called for renewed protests ...
Bourse and Bazaar | Khosro Kalbasi: About twenty years ago, when Milad Nouri first told his parents and university instructors that he wanted to be a programmer, they thought he was another good-for-nothing youth.
Today, Nouri is one of the veteran programmers who have helped lead Irans digital revolution, contributing to the launch of companies whose ...
MNA Head of Iran's Passive Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali pointed to the countrys need to cut dependency on international internet and developing national social networks.
In an interview with a national TV program on Tuesday, Jalali said that the internet needs to be regulated in the country and services and communications ...
Press TV - An American VPN research and advisory company has urged US President Donald Trump to ratchet up the countrys acts of sabotage targeting cyberworld activity by various Iranian entities.
Earlier this week, VPN.com CEO Michael Gargiulo wrote aletterto Trump, advising that Washington eliminate all global Internet access and service to all ...
Bloomberg | Yasna Haghdoost:Mobile data has been restored in parts of Tehran and other areas as the government gradually rolls back an internet blackout in place since nationwide protests erupted earlier this month.
Service wasnt renewed in some western areas of Tehran province where demonstrations had been more violent, according to the breakdown ...
Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: Iranians struggled to adjust to life offline for almost a week and were forced to resort to old ways due to a near-total internet blackout imposed amid violent protests.
The demonstrations flared on November 15, hours after a shock decision announced at midnight to raise the price of petrol by up to 200 percent in the sanctions-...
Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson condemned the US move to impose sanctions on Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi.
In a statement on Saturday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi denounced the US regimes sanctions against Azari Jahromi for his role in what Washington has ...
Radio Farda - The United States has called on social media giants Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to suspend accounts linked to Iranian government leaders until Internet coverage is restored in that country.
"It is a deeply hypocritical regime," Brian Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iran, told Bloomberg News in an interview posted on ...
Euronews |Helena Skinner &Seana Davis: One of Iran's biggest internet blackouts means details about the impact of recent protests over fuel price hikes remains sketchy.
NetBlocks corroborated reports in Iranian media on Thursday that internet had been partly reinstated, "some connectivity is being restored, although only partially, national ...
Al-Monitor - After four days of a near complete internet blackout, Iranian authorities have begun to restore internet connectivity to the country. According to Fars News Agency, the resumption of internet access is being done gradually and province by province. According to the Fars report, Hormozgan, Arak, Kermanshah, Mashhad, Qom, Tabriz, Hamedan,...
MNA Iranian Information and Communications Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said he is not the first person to be designated by US administration.
I'm not the only member of the club of sanctioned persons (Based on Trump's fairytales). Before me, Iran ICT startups, Developers, Cancer patients and EB children were there, Jahromi ...
AP The internet slowly trickled back on in Iran on Friday after a dayslong shutdown by authorities amid protests and unrest that followed government-set gasoline prices sharply rising, as the U.S. sanctioned the countrys prominent telecommunications minister over the outage.
A week after the gasoline hike, the loosening of the internet shutdown ...
Reuters - The internet has been restored in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, the semi-official ISNA news agency said on Thursday, after a days-long nationwide shutdown meant to help stifle unrest over fuel price hikes.
The authorities blockage of Internet access made it difficult for protesters to post videos on social media to generate ...
The Washington Post | Jason Rezaian: On Nov. 15, the government in Tehran raised prices for gasoline setting off a wave of protests that has yet to subside.
The unrest has become so intense that the authorities decided to cut off the entire country from the Internet. Thats made it much more difficult for Iranians to communicate with the outside ...
Financial Tribune - Following nationwide protests over the overnight fuel price hike of 200%, Iranian authorities cut off the internet as of Saturday.
Asked by ICANA, the Iranian Parliaments news outlet, about internet disruptions, ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said, This is not disruption. The internet has been cut off. The Supreme ...
Gizmodo - The government of Iran shut off the internet for virtually everyone in the country on Saturday as protests over fuel prices turned violent. The internet in Iran has now been inaccessible to the general population of 81 million for almost four days, and its not clear when the government will turn it back on.
The ongoing disruption is the ...
Al-Monitor - A massive security presence and an internet blackout continue across Iran five days after the government introduced controversial cuts to gasoline subsidies. The austerity plan fueled worries about inflation and higher gasoline prices, and triggered nationwide protests that soon turned into large anti-government demonstrations.
The ...
AFP - Authorities have restricted internet access in Iran, the semi-official ISNA news agency said on Sunday, after nearly two days of nationwide protests triggered by a petrol price hike.
"Access to the internet has been limited as of last night and for the next 24 hours," an informed source at the information and telecommunications ministry said,...
Press TV - Irans minister of telecommunications has slammed remarks by a senior US diplomat about internet blackout in Iran, saying it is pure hypocrisy that Americans are promising to provide Iranians with free and unrestricted internet.
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Monday Americans would better think about the unrestricted flow of vital ...
AFP - The Iranian government said Tuesday it will unblock the internet only when authorities are sure it will not be abused during violent demonstrations against a petrol price hike.
The Islamic republic has been largely offline since the internet restrictions were imposed the day after the nationwide demonstrations broke out on Friday.
"Many ...