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21 Jan 2026, 22:01

Ali Akbar Pourjamshidian, the Deputy Minister of Interior for Security and also the Secretary of the National Security Council, confirmed in a program on the Islamic Republic's television that "the time for the internet to be restored is uncertain."

Access to the internet has been cut off for over three hundred hours for more than 90 million Iranians.

Doug Madory, an expert in global internet infrastructure analysis, wrote on his X account regarding the way the internet was cut off by the Islamic Republic: "Iran is experiencing one of the most severe internet outages in the world. In this blackout, unlike classic outages, the main internet routes (IPv4) were not removed from BGP; meaning the country remained technically accessible, but traffic was effectively blocked at the edge of the network."

Previously, Hossein Afshar, the scientific deputy of the president, had stated that "the country's internet will return to normal by the end of this week, that is, in two days."

Masoud Pezeshkian, the president, had earlier this week "recommended" to Ali Larijani, the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, that "internet restrictions be lifted as soon as possible."
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