Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours (mastodon.social)

by miadabdi 120 comments 167 points
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[−] BariumBlue 33d ago
Apparently 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 33d ago
This 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.

[−] nitwit005 33d ago
This is just spreading rumors. You have to do better than "apparently".
[−] BigTTYGothGF 33d ago

> Apparently they are also (at least in some cases) dressing as women to avoid airstrikes

Didn't help anybody in Minab.

[−] mdni007 33d ago
Can you provide a source for any of this that is not just American or Isreali propaganda? Because I know you can't
[−] beloch 33d ago
When a regime starts killing thousands of it's own people it's a sign of weakness, not strength. Iran's theocracy was teetering above the abyss before the U.S. started bombing them.

Now, they're probably good to go for a couple more decades. Trump is precisely the kind of threat Iranians have been warned about since the revolution. When a regime spends almost half a century preparing for something and it finally happens, it earns them considerable forgiveness. Also, nothing unites people quite like a foreign threat, especially one dumb enough to bomb schoolgirls in its opening salvo.

By scuttling the JCPOA for no apparent reason and now invading Iran right when it appeared the regime was crumbling, Trump has single-handedly reinvigorated Iran's theocracy and given them the public support they need for the final push towards nuclear weapons. That's what's so sickening about this invasion. It has acted in diametric opposition to the the policy goals it was purportedly pursuing.

[−] rambojohnson 33d ago
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[−] gambutin 33d ago
Noteworthy: 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

[−] pcf 33d ago
Every 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).

[−] traceroute66 33d ago
Looking 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.

[−] JohnnyLarue 33d ago
Bombing civilian infrastructure didn't turn the Internet back on? I don't believe that.
[−] curiousObject 33d ago
That’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

[−] aaronbrethorst 33d ago
42 days, for anyone else not accustomed to thinking in terms of large numbers of hours.
[−] amir734jj 33d ago
I'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.
[−] UltraSane 33d ago
It isn't an outage it is an intentional block. Iranian ISPs actually stop announcing all IPv4 prefixes into BGP.
[−] jauntywundrkind 33d ago
This 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.
[−] reliabilityguy 33d ago
Is Iranian infra centralized on the similar fashion like in Belarus?
[−] metalman 33d ago
and 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

[−] aaron695 33d ago
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[−] gla67890543 33d ago
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