The near-total internet blackout in Iran has"now entered its 57th day after 1344 hours,"internet watchdog NetBlocks has said.
The restrictions followed renewed anti-government protests in early January and intensified after the start of the US-Israel war on Iran at the end of February, and during which timeleaders in Washington and Israel have signaled they seek total societal collapse and government overthrowin the Islamic Republic. This has left many of Iran's some 95 million citizens scrambling for information on what comes next concerning war and negotiations.
"Exactly eight weeks have passedsince 28 February when Iran was placed under a regime-imposed internet blackout," NetBlocks continues.
The heavily restricted internet has disrupted jobs and businesses nationwide, andhas seen some citizens temporarily cross borders or else flee the country entirely just to access better communications.
This is particularly at the porous border with Turkey, for people able to get in and out, according to one report based on an on the groundinterview:
Dazed by the sun and tired by more than a dozen hours of travel by bus, the woman from Tehran, Iran's capital, crossed into eastern Turkey.
Her first stop? Somewhere with Wi-Fi.
"I only want to make a video call and go back [to Iran.] That is it,"she told NPR.
For the last month, she has been making the hours-long drive to Iran's border with Turkey every three days in order to use the internet for a few hours to contact her son, who is studying at a university in western Turkey.
The US state-funded publication NPR continues:
Source: ZeroHedge News
