Iranian authorities have said they are considering "gradually" restoring internet access after imposing an unprecedented communications shutdown 10 days ago, which rights groups say masked a violent p

The plan would move beyond mass internet censorship for a “new, far darker strategy – absolute digital isolation”, according to the report by Filterwatch, which supports internet freedom and freedom of information in Iran and the Middle East.

There should be no expectation of reopening international internet access, and even afterwards, users’ access to international internet will never return to its previous form,”

Blackout imposed amid brutal crackdown likely to last until March 20, and authorities are implementing plan to turn country into a 'communication black hole,' says Filterwatch The post Iranian regime plans to permanently cut people off from internet — watchdog appeared first on The Times of Israel.

A former US State Department official called the idea of Iran severing global internet access permanently "plausible and terrifying. " Iran is planning to limit global internet access to specific vetted individuals,

The Iranian government is reportedly planning to permanently sever its citizens from the global internet — confining them instead to a state-run system as part of a continued crackdown on dissent following the Islamic regime’s slaughtering of thousands of protesters.

Iran is enduring its most extensive internet blackout on record, activists say, raising fears that Tehran’s crackdown on protesters may persist despite assurances it would ease punishments.

Limited internet access has returned in Iran, a monitor said Sunday, 10 days after authorities imposed a communications blackout that rights groups have said was aimed at masking a violent