Farzaneh Taleb

PhD Student in CS @KTHuniversity @kth_rpl | Interested in Machine Learning, Neuroscience, Brain-Computer Interfaces

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered day 32 with most users cut off from the outside world for over 744 hours.

Extended digital isolation is bringing new challenges for Iranians, from expired domains and accounts to unpatched servers on a degrading national intranet.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its 25th day after 576 hours, leaving the public isolated from the world as whitelisted accounts seek to take control of the narrative. The measure leaves civilians without vital updates and without a voice on the global stage.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: It's now day 24 of #Iran's internet blackout, with the measure passing 552 hours among the most severe registered in any country.

International connectivity remains unavailable to the general public while authorities maintain a selective whitelist for global access.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: After 528 hours, #Iran is entering a 23rd day isolated from the world as the regime-imposed internet blackout continues in its fourth week.

The measure adds to the wartime distress of millions of civilians who lack independent sources of information and alerts.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: 20 full days after #Iran imposed a national internet blackout, most ordinary users still face heavy filtering and intermittent service under a whitelist system despite a significant increase in internationally visible networks and datacenters.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: With #Iran's internet shutdown approaching day 20, many networks are becoming visible internationally.

HOWEVER:

📵 No return to usual: Web still heavily filtered on a whitelist basis.
🔧 Circumvention still needed: The opening of protocols can enable new workarounds.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

📺 The BBC cancelled almost all TV and radio interviews on #Iran's internet blackout they'd scheduled or suggested changing topic to other outages. With huge respect to BBC journos, this wastes human rights monitors' time, hasn't happened in past crises, and needs investigation.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout continues through its 18th day, obscuring the extent of a deadly crackdown on civilians.

Meanwhile, gaps in the filternet are being tightened to limit circumvention while whitelisted regime accounts promote the Islamic Republic's narrative.

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

30,000 people murdered in Iran in two days.
According to TIME.

If you’re not talking about this get the words “human rights” out of your fucking mouth.

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

🖋️ Families with loved ones in #Iran are experiencing an excruciating wait for news as the regime's total internet blackout continues after a brutal crackdown on protesters across the country, report @caspar__barnes and Moha Tahery for the Independent
https://t.co/E3LvNCCXK4

[Golineh Atai @GolinehAtai]

“Why is it becoming normal to see so many corpses? Why doesn't it turn the world upside down when we see someone with a bullet in the forehead and still hooked up to hospital equipment? Why does the world see in all these people in black bags just a “violent crackdown”? This is a massacre. This is a mass killing!!”
#IranMassacre

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

ℹ️ Update: As of Friday morning, the wider availability of messaging apps is confirmed and more VPN tunnels are connecting from Iran. However, service is heavily filtered and observable international connectivity remains low, indicating a "filternet plus" configuration.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

While people in Iran are still reeling from the grief and shock of the unprecedented massacres during protest dispersals, the Iranian authorities are waging a coordinated attack on the rights of people in Iran to life, dignity and fundamental freedoms in a criminal bid to terrorize the population into silence.

[Vahid Online @Vahid]

"#سپهر_بابا کجایی؟"
⚠️12 minutes of heartbreaking footage from the Kahrizak Forensic Medicine Center in #Tehran:
لعنت بهت خامنه‌ای جنایتکار! بچه‌هامون رو کجا آوردی؟
این سند جنایت جمهوری اسلامیه!
این کشتار رو ۱۸و۱۹ دی مرتکب شده!
دنیا ببینید! فیلم نیست واقعیته!
#کهریزک #تهران #Iran

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Update: #Iran remains in the midst of a national internet blackout in its third week at hour 348 with only a slight rise in overall connectivity and tunneled users. There are indications of an attempt to generate false traffic and manufacture narratives of a wider restoration.

[David Vance @DavidVance]

Help didn’t come…

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

This is how they massacred 20,000 Iranians in two days: automatic heavy machine guns firing at everyone on the streets 👇

[Karmel Melamed @KarmelMelamed]

DO NOT look away!

This is not GAZA. This is Iran.

Body bags of 100s of innocents in Iran against the Islamo-Nazi Ayatollah regime who slaughtered them for protesting for freedom.

This why the Ayatollahs have shut down the internet in Iran for 2 weeks. This killing must stop!

[Bloomberg @business]

The number of people reported killed in Iran’s protest crackdown has surged, with the United Nations warning the total could be more than 20,000 https://t.co/5fQTt2Ngkx

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Even the lowest estimates of the death toll in Iran’s wave of protests suggest the episode is one of the deadliest of its kind anywhere in decades. https://t.co/bEM8OSQuDE