Iran Partially Restores Internet Access After 88-Day Nationwide Blackout

Iran partially restored internet access after an 88-day nationwide blackout tied to war with the United States and Israel. Many Iranians remain unable to use normal online services because of slow speeds, filtering, VPN failures, and continued platform restrictions. Business leaders say the shutdown has inflicted tens of millions of dollars in daily economic losses.

For 88 days, millions of Iranians lived in digital darkness after the authorities imposed a nationwide Internet shutdown following the outbreak of war with the United States and Israel. The blackout affected a Middle Eastern country of some 90 million people.

Conditions After Restoration The end of one of the world’s longest-ever Internet blackouts offered scant consolation for many Iranians who reconnected to the same heavily filtered and state-controlled network after nearly three months. Still, some Iranians were relieved to escape the near-complete isolation.

“The feeling of collective humiliation, restricted access to information, even access to treatment and health care -- these are basic human rights, yet all of them had been taken away,” Vida, who only gave her first name for fear of retribution, told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda.