The current, ongoing near total Internet shutdown in Iran, disconnecting Iranians from the global Internet, is now longer than the January 2026 shutdown during nation-wide protests. This makes the current shutdown the longest shutdown IODA has documented in Iran.

Follow connectivity in Iran in near realtime:
https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/IR?from=1766145666&until=1773921666&view=view1

Evidence of power shortage in Cuba is visible in IODA's Internet connectivity signals. The ~20% drop in Active Probing occurred earlier this month and appears similar to historic power outages visible in IODA data.

https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/CU?from=1729782277&until=1730991877

IODA data shows that the Internet in the Republic of Congo has been offline for ~12 hours amid a government shutdown during national elections.

Follow Internet connectivity in the Republic of Congo in near realtime: https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/CG?from=1773511746&until=1773598146&view=view1

Iran's connectivity to the global Internet briefly recovered on March 12 6:35 PM - 6:55 PM local time when a state-owned network (AS58224) that 32.9% of the population in Iran is connected to appeared to toggle its routing announcements off-on-off-on over a 40-minute period.

https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/58224-IR?from=1771680827&until=1773408827&view=view1

During the short recovery, use of Mozilla's Firefox increased sharply.

https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/IR?from=1772112778&until=1773408778&view=view1