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26 May 2026, 14:09

NetBlocks, the organization monitoring internet status worldwide, announced that its live data shows internet connectivity in Iran is relatively returning on the eighty-eighth day of widespread outages; however, it is still unclear whether this situation will remain stable or not.
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Hours before this event, other news was released:
While officials from Masoud Pezeshkian's government announced the start of the complete internet connection process within the next 24 hours, the Administrative Justice Court announced that it had issued an order to halt the implementation of the decree establishing the "Special Headquarters for Organizing and Managing the Country's Cyberspace."

This court announced on Tuesday afternoon, June 5, that "following the filing of complaints, an order has been issued to halt the decree for the establishment of the 'Special Headquarters for Organizing and Managing the Country's Cyberspace'" and added: "Until the final resolution of the filed complaints, the decrees and decisions of this headquarters will not be enforceable."

The media center of the judiciary also announced that the orders and decrees of the special headquarters "are not enforceable until legal review due to the examination of the legality of the headquarters' structure."
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After that:
Simultaneously with the Administrative Justice Court's announcement of the order to halt the return of the internet, ISNA reported on Tuesday, June 5, citing "an informed source," that the process of connection is underway following the issuance of the internet connection order from the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and this capability will be available to everyone within 24 hours.

This occurred just one day after the decree from the "Special Headquarters for Organizing Cyberspace" for "returning the internet to its status before December 2024," when the Administrative Justice Court issued a temporary order halting the implementation of the decree to establish the special cyberspace headquarters and declared its decrees unenforceable until the final resolution.
At the same time, Etemad reported that Kamyar Saghafi, Reza Taghipour, Rasoul Jalili, and Mohammad Hassan Entezari, under the guidance of a retained official from Ebrahim Raisi's government, are the "judicial complainants" regarding the international internet connection.
Iran has been in digital blackout for 88 days since the start of the war on March 1.
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Mohammad Reza Aref, Pezeshkian's first deputy, wrote on X that following Pezeshkian's order, "the first step towards free and regulated access to cyberspace has been taken."
He added: "With the reopening of the internet, smart services will be streamlined, and the demands of the people who stood by the system and Iran will be realized, removing obstacles to knowledge-based development and scientific authority."
Aref did not provide any explanation in his text regarding the "first step" and the connection of the internet for citizens.
This comes as Fars, a media outlet affiliated with the IRGC, previously reported that the Administrative Justice Court announced that following complaints regarding the annulment of the "document establishing the Special Headquarters for Organizing and Managing the Country's Cyberspace," the specialized board of industries and commerce of this court, recognizing the necessity and urgency of the matter, issued an order to halt the implementation of this decree until the complaint is addressed.
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