Iran endures longest-ever internet blackout

The more than month-long internet blackout in Iran is the longest recorded nationwide outage in history. Sources told AFP and the BBC this was reported by global monitoring company Netblocks.

The BBC reports that only a handful of government officials or journalists and some people paying large sums to connect via the Starlink satellite internet system have access to the internet.

"Iran's internet blackout is the longest nationwide internet outage ever recorded in any country and surpasses all other comparable cases in its severity, having lasted 37 days after 864 hours," NetBlocks wrote on the social networking site X.

Users of the Starlink satellite system face up to two years in prison in Iran. State media report that authorities have confiscated hundreds of such devices since the war began.

(AFP, BBC, tasr)