Iran restored international internet access on Tuesday following an order from the Administrative Justice Court and instructions from President Masoud Pezeshkian. The Headquarters for the Steering and Regulation of Cyberspace approved reverting connections to pre-January conditions. Sources disagree on the exact duration and timeline of the preceding blackout period.
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Read at Just The News →Restoration reflects both regime repression during protests and strikes and limited reformist efforts by Pezeshkian and the court.
“Internal tensions between hardliners and reformists; harm to citizens and activists”
Regime used blackout for survival amid protests and strikes, with court and executive steps showing factional fractures rather than liberalization.
“Authoritarian control and limits of reformist figures”
Blackout curtailed core individual liberties of communication subject to arbitrary state reversal.
“Individual rights versus state override capacity”
Perspectives accept disputed timelines and flatten factional mechanics into hardliner-reformist binary while ignoring court enabling role.
“Source contradictions and unexamined operational and legal details”
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