Iran cuts the internet nationwide during protests
A government-ordered shutdown lasted about 24 days, to 2 February.
- Service
- Iran (national internet)
- Date
- 8 January 2026
- Cause
- Government shutdown
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BloggerVoice outage statistics ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Iran cuts the internet nationwide during protests”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 8 Jan 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-01-08-iran-national-internet-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BloggerVoice outage statistics, https://bloggervoice.com/internet-outage-statistics/.
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