Overview
- Digital monitors report only a partial return of connectivity, with access heavily filtered and overall traffic still far below normal despite restored SMS and limited reach to services like Google.
- State broadcaster IRIB acknowledged a brief satellite interruption by an unknown source as hacked feeds aired messages supporting exiled prince Reza Pahlavi; his office confirmed his image was used.
- Police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan offered clemency to youths he called misled if they turn themselves in within three days, a move backed by Iran’s executive, legislature and judiciary.
- President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that any attack on Ali Khamenei would amount to “total war” after President Donald Trump said it was time for new leadership in Tehran.
- Rights groups cite several thousand deaths and more than 25,700 arrests since protests over inflation and the rial’s collapse began on December 28, while global forums such as Davos rescinded Iranian representation.