{"id":256062,"date":"2026-05-26T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/internet-starts-to-return-in-iran-after-3-month-blackout\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:55:22","slug":"internet-starts-to-return-in-iran-after-3-month-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/internet-starts-to-return-in-iran-after-3-month-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/internet-in-iran-starts-to-return-after-3-month-blackout\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-26 13:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n

After more than<\/span> 2,000 hours of government-imposed connectivity blackouts, there were signs on Tuesday that Iran\u2019s internet is coming back\u2014at least at very low levels.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s more than 90 million citizens have been without internet for the overwhelming majority of 2026, between the current blackout that began on February 28, when Israel and the United States attacked the country, and a previous internet shutdown enforced after widespread protests in January. The reconnection appears to have been ordered by officials in Iran\u2019s government\u2014but could only be temporary.<\/p>\n

Though some Iranian networks appeared to be connecting to the global internet on Tuesday, researchers cautioned that the level of access was far below even the partial restoration that Tehran allowed at the end of January and throughout February\u2014and it was drastically below Iran\u2019s typical baseline of global internet connectivity from December 2025. Internet monitoring experts at Kentik, NetBlocks, and Cloudflare began documenting the partial restoration of connectivity in Iran beginning in the early afternoon local time on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do see some traffic coming from Iran,\u201d says Amir Rashidi, a cybersecurity expert with the internet freedom organization Miaan Group. \u201cSome providers have come back online, but it is still too early to say exactly what will happen. After the January protests, some providers were also reconnected, but around 50 percent of the country\u2019s traffic remained down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doug Madory, the director of internet analysis at Kentik, says, \u201cWe\u2019re not seeing much change for the mobile networks.\u201d Instead, he says, some fixed-line providers have appeared to be restoring their services, with the Telecommunication Company of Iran\u2019s fiber-optic service around Tehran showing the \u201cbiggest gain.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the start of January, the Iranian regime entirely shut down internet connectivity as the state killed thousands of protesters who took to the streets demanding improvements…<\/p>\n

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