Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout

Researchers and monitoring firms observed limited partial restoration of Iran's internet after more than 2,000 hours of government-ordered blackouts that began February 28, with fixed-line providers (notably Tehran's fiber service) showing the biggest gains while mobile networks remained mostly offline. The reconnection appears politically driven amid internal power struggles between security bodies and the president, is potentially temporary, and occurs against a backdrop of Iran's long-term effort to build a national intranet and tightly control online communications.