Iran's 88-day internet shutdown during military strikes
Traffic fell below 1% of normal from 28 February to 26 May, cutting off about 90 million people.
- Service
- Iran (national internet)
- Date
- 28 February 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's 88-day internet shutdown during military strikes”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 28 Feb 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-02-28-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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