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Contradictions in Internet Policies: Lifting Restrictions or Strengthening Censorship?
The CEO of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Company (TIC) recently stated: “Currently, the country’s communication infrastructure is fully prepared for any removal of internet restrictions.”
December 23, 2024
International Bandwidth and Quality Reduction
Since the afternoon of November 21st, a noticeable reduction in international bandwidth has been reported. This issue is clearly observable in Cloudflare radar data, showing reduced traffic towards its services. Additionally, significant disruptions have been recorded on the MahsaServer radar, further confirming the problem.
November 21, 2024
International Bandwidth and TLS Disruptions in Iran
In recent hours, noticeable changes in Iran’s internet bandwidth and latency to foreign IPs have been observed. Overall, the speed and bandwidth of international connections have decreased, and latency has reached higher than usual.
October 2, 2024
Current Internet Situation in Iran: Updates and Speculations
In the past few hours, following recent events, some unverified reports about internet outages or disruptions in Iran have surfaced. However, as of now, no official statement has been released by AFTA or Passive Defense Organization.
September 28, 2024
IRGFW Update
Since around 10 PM Iran time, there has been a major disruption in the infrastructure affecting some foreign data centers, including Akamai and Vultr. This disruption can be seen on Arvancloud’s radar and also on Mahsa’s radar.
September 11, 2024
IRGFW Update
Approximately three days ago, the firewalls of the Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran (MCI) and Iran’s Infrastructure Communications Company were updated, resulting in significant changes to their functionality. Instead of completely blocking subdomains, there is a noticeable increase in ping, handshake time, and jitter in HTTP and HTTPS connections. These changes are so impactful that they severely limit WebSocket and gRPC transports for connecting to Cloudflare’s CDN or even direct international communications. Previously, the subdomains used in Host/SNI were entirely blocked and filtered, but now they are being throttled in speed and ping.
August 7, 2024
IRGFW QUIC Protocol Update
Since last night (UTC+3:30), according to CloudFlare Radar, QUIC protocol traffic to this datacenter has dropped by approximately half.
July 27, 2024