Overview
- Connectivity has been throttled for more than 14 days with traffic near 1% of normal levels, according to NetBlocks.
- State-backed ISNA reported a 37-year-old was detained in Shiraz on allegations he sold access via a Starlink-based network reaching several provinces, with such offenses punishable by up to two years in prison under Iranian law.
- Amnesty International says it has received reports of home raids and arrests over Starlink possession, warning that charges for external communications can extend to the death penalty.
- Use of specialist circumvention tools has plunged, with Psiphon’s daily connections in Iran falling from up to six million to fewer than 100,000 as authorities issue warning texts to suspected VPN users.
- Workarounds persist through satellite filecasting by Toosheh, which reports thousands to hundreds of thousands of users since the shutdown, and through Radio Zamaneh’s nightly shortwave news broadcast that is difficult to jam.