After almost ten days of complete information isolation, Iran began to partially restore Internet access on Sunday. Global monitoring service Netblocks confirmed that the blockade was lifted exactly 238 hours after the Tehran regime imposed it on January 8 to quell mass economic protests.
Internet access has been partially restored in Iran – 238 hours after authorities there blocked it on Jan. 8 amid mass protests, global monitoring firm Netblocks said on Sunday. However, it noted that normal connectivity remains “disrupted,” TASR reports, according to an AFP report.
- The Internet still remains heavily restricted and filtered.
- Internet access was partially restored in Iran after 238 hours.
- The protests in Iran started because of the country’s economic problems.
- According to the Iranian government, the number of victims of the protests exceeded 5,000.
The data, according to the monitoring company, indicates a significant return to some online services, including Google, suggesting that heavily filtered access has been allowed. “Confirming user reports of a partial recovery,” Netblocks said in a social media post.
Protests in Iran
Protests in Iran began on December 28, 2025, and were sparked by economic problems caused by a sharp drop in the Iranian rial and rising inflation. They gradually spread from Tehran to the whole country. After brutal interventions by the security forces there, they gradually died down this week.
On Sunday, the Reuters agency, citing an unnamed Iranian official, said that the Iranian government has so far confirmed more than 5,000 casualties. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself publicly admitted on Saturday for the first time that thousands of people had been killed during the protests.
