Three Coincidences Blast Iran Off The Internet World Map
Update! There’s possibly more to this story, read the follow up article.
Update! According to a comment Iran isn’t offline.
The problem seems to be local, since the University in Tehran is indeed still reachable.
It’s not just one or two1 submarine cables being cut affecting the browsing experience in Egypt, India, etc.
No.
It’s three2.
And it’s not Egypt and India you should be worried about…
No.. Not at all.
It’s Iran3 (local copy).
Iran is as of now completely cut off the internet.
Weird coincidence, isn’t it?
Who would gain anything from kicking Iran off the Net?
Well… think for yourself…
1 FLAG Europe-Asia Cable & FLAG FALCON Cable cut
3 Internet Traffic Report Asia (local copy)
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So Iran now can’t answer
So Iran now can’t answer allegations of their possessing WMD. Why isn’t that neat? “They didn’t deny having WMD, so we figured they have ‘em and struck back first. I mean we had to defend ourselves!” /me removes tinfoil hat…
I just hope this incident won’t cause more than just inconveniences.
only iran would
only iran would benefit…see they control their media..and this is a pretty good filter
Iran isn’t off the
Iran isn’t off the internet, which is why http://www.iust.ac.ir/ (note, same domain as is mentioned in the Internet Traffic Report) and http://www.nic.ir/, both of which point to IP addresses “belonging” to the Iranian equivalent of ARIN, and assigned to organisations in Iran, still work perfectly well.
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