Network Monitor – August 2020

In August Iran’s internet faced two main issues. Firstly, the aggressive disruption of circumvention tools including 1.1.1.1, and the second relating to failures in Tehran’s Milad Tower, where an unpaid electric bill plunged a number of its data centers into darkness, knocking a number of websites hosted on them offline. Our day-by-day analysis of keyContinue reading “Network Monitor – August 2020”

Network Monitor — July 2020

In July, the internet in Iran experienced a number of intermittent disruptions and unexplained traffic shifts, as well as one localised near-total shutdown when anti-government protests broke out in a number of cities nationwide.  This shutdown incident was limited to the city of Behbahan in Khuzestan Province, where authorities later claimed that a number ofContinue reading “Network Monitor — July 2020”