Overview
- Cybersecurity monitor NetBlocks reports only limited, heavily filtered connectivity returning after more than 200 hours offline, with some services like Google reachable and SMS and international calls partially restored.
- The government says access will be restored progressively and has reopened schools and universities, while state-aligned media report thousands of arrests and authorities claim they have regained control.
- Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei urged the nation to “break the back of the seditionists” and accused U.S. President Donald Trump of being “guilty” of the victims, framing the unrest as a foreign-backed plot.
- Rights groups cite at least 3,428 people killed and up to 20,000 detained, with verification hampered by the blackout, and the judiciary warning of swift trials and possible death sentences for offenses deemed “war against God.”
- Abroad, several thousand people marched in France in solidarity with protesters, as Washington maintained that all options remain on the table even after Trump said he was told the killings had ended, and Iran’s president warned that any attack on Khamenei would mean war.