Doug Madory

Iran's government has begun reconnecting to the global internet after an 88-day outage triggered by a national security policy following attacks from the USA and Israel. Vice-President Mohammad Reza Aref announced the first step toward regulated internet access, with traffic resuming as reported by NetBlocks and Cloudflare. Analysts note Iran's use of a tiered internet system and ongoing content filtering, while the government cited security reasons for past blocks.