Iran’s 90 million people have been cut off from the global internet for most of 2026, one of the world’s longest and ...

Internet shutdowns are on the rise. Here's how governments cut access and why outages cost economies billions of dollars.

Iran’s saffron export industry is facing significant disruption due to an ongoing internet shutdown, with exporters reporting ...

A digital blockade cannot hide the truth Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mocked the internet shutdown in Moscow ...

Sahand tells the BBC World Service he sends satellite internet terminals into Iran to help show "the real picture".

In a country pushed deeper into digital isolation, internet access is increasingly shaped by politics, surveillance, and obedience After more than two months largely offline, Iranians are now living ...

On 8 January 2026, Iranian authorities implemented a nationwide internet blackout that resulted in connectivity to the global internet declining by approximately 98% within 84 hours. This blackout did ...

Iran's Internet shutdown has passed 52 days, the longest since the 2011 blackout in Libya but affecting nearly 15 times the ...

Silencing the internet during unrest buys governments time but corrodes the trust and economic foundations that stability ...

Even so-called whitelisted websites will be blocked Moscow residents may be left without mobile internet and SMS for five ...