Amidst the military actions against Israel, Iran has restricted access to the Internet for its own citizens.
Amidst the military actions against Israel, Iran has restricted access to the Internet for its own citizens.
Accordingto Wired, the first reports of internet outages in Iran appeared on June 13, after the Israeli Air Force bombed targets in Iran.
Iran’s communications ministry said the «temporary restrictions» were imposed due to «special conditions» facing the country.
Iran’s Khabar news agency said international internet access in the country had been «temporarily restricted to prevent abuse by the enemy.» Officials said the shutdowns were aimed at preventing potential cyberattacks.
According to Doug Madori, director of internet analytics at monitoring firm Kentik, internet connectivity in Iran fell by 54% on June 13. Internet connectivity briefly returned to its previous level on Tuesday, but Madori said it fell again by as much as 90% on Wednesday.
«Many Iranian service providers are currently down, this is the second nationwide internet shutdown,» Madori wrote on the BlueSky social media site on Wednesday.
A representative of the Ainita Project, an organization that works on internet freedom, noted that for the second day in a row, the Iranian government has «blocked international connectivity,» but access to Iranian news sites is also limited.
Other internet monitoring companies, such as Cloudflare Radar and Netblocks, have also observed massive internet outages in Iran in recent days, with Netblocks calling the latest one a «near-total» outage.
It is also reported that Iran has banned officials from using any gadgets connected to the Internet, and has also demanded that its own citizens remove the WhatsApp messenger from their phones.
However, Wired writes that widespread measures to control and restrict access to the Internet have made it difficult for people in Iran to communicate and find vital information related to military operations.
The day before, dev.ua reported that Israeli hackers had hacked the largest Iranian crypto exchange, Nobitex. Its losses are already estimated at over $80 million.
