Iran's Internet apartheid: Who stays online, who stays dark

Inside Iran's two-tier internet system: state officials get unfiltered access while 99 per cent of citizens face an 18-day blackout.

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#Internetblackout tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 57. Sitzung des 21. Deutschen Bundestages am 30.01.2026 auf. Es wurde im Rahmen der Rede von Parsa Marvi (SPD) gesagt.

Video: https://de.openparliament.tv/media/DE-0210057051?q=Internetblackout

Parsa Marvi, SPD | 30.01.2026 | Iranpolitik | Open Parliament TV

Speech on the subject Iranpolitik by Parsa Marvi (Deutscher Bundestag, 30.01.2026)

@arcanechat

I'm trying to think how I would block simplex and the first thing that came to mind was looking up all known simplex servers and adding them to a block list, can't the exact same thing be done to chatmail servers?

I'm aware tor entry nodes can be added to a block list. I wish more projects would consider I2P, I wish it was more known in general it should fix the issue of blocking entry nodes/servers because everyone is a node, add traffic obfuscation on top of that and it should have been safe from the Iran internet blackout

#PSA #E2EE #Tor #I2P #Iran #InternetBlackout #Censorship #SimpleX #DeltaChat

Iranian doctor describes treating patients during protest crackdown
A doctor describes treating patients in Iran during the regime’s violent crackdown on nationwide protests, telling CBC’s Margaret Evans the scenes were ‘extremely horrifying’ — details that have largely been masked by a government-imposed internet blackout in the country.
#protest #crackdown #internetblackout #Iran
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7073298?cmp=rss
Iranian doctor describes treating patients during protest crackdown
A doctor describes treating patients in Iran during the regime’s violent crackdown on nationwide protests, telling CBC’s Margaret Evans the scenes were ‘extremely horrifying’ — details that have largely been masked by a government-imposed internet blackout in the country.
#protest #crackdown #internetblackout #Iran
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7073298?cmp=rss

So, I’m thinking about some kind of solution to selfhost or implement that would allow us to receive things like RSS feeds or news from Telegram channels. To be clear, when they shut down international traffic, there is no way to connect using normal protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, etc.
Do you have any ideas about this?

#Iran #InternetShutdown #InternetBlackout #IranProtests

During the complete internet blackout in Iran, one of the most important things we missed was a way to receive news. The blockage still continues, it’s a little easier now to access the international internet, but it is still whitelisted.

#Iran #InternetShutdown #InternetBlackout #IranProtests

But for those that don't know, #Toosheh is a pretty cool #datacasting tech which yeets stuff down at 51dBW directly onto #Iran, thus is pretty hard to jam or even detect, as propably a regular wok with a cheap LNB on a broom duct-taped to it can do the reception.

So if you know anyone stuck in #Iran and having to deal with #InternetCensorship and #internetOutage / #InternetBlackout / #InternetShutdown there, and they happen to have a DVB-S Reciever with "PVR ready" function (i.e. recording to a USB drive), Satellite Dish & LNB [all 3 are illegal to own in Iran, so best not ask them over the phone!] recommend them to shove a 4 GB Stick into it and let it record for >1 hour, then end the recording and use their application to extract the files in it.

  • The program loops hourly, so it can be programmed for recording when noone else is using the Reciever (i.e. late at night, early morning or at lunchtime)...

The parameters for the reciever are:

YahSat-1 @ 52,5°E
11.766 MHz / 11,766 GHz
Vertical Polarization
DVB-S (QPSK, 0,35 ROF, 16200+Pilot
27.500 kSymbols/s
FEC 7/8

They should find a station with a green title card and text in Persian.

All that's needed beyond the reciever is a Device with either Linux, Android or Windows to run their decoder tool.

  • AFAICT the package is substantial (~ 2GB) and should contain multimedia, VPN/Proxy details and @torproject / #TorBrowser as well as instructions.

#Iran #CantStopTheSignal #Datacasting #Airgapped #Broadcasting #TV #Satellite

“Direct-to-cell satellite internet can bypass censorship and internet shutdowns, connecting ordinary smartphones directly to satellites—no special equipment needed. This technology could save lives in Iran and beyond.”

#d2c #iran #internetblackout
https://www.direct2cell.org/

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EIL: In Iran dauert der Internet-Ausfall nun 348 Stunden an. #Iran #Internetblackout