{"id":9719,"date":"2026-07-01T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9719"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:08:01","slug":"iran-net-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/07\/01\/iran-net-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Net Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newlinesmag.com\/reportage\/irans-internet-blackout-was-decades-in-the-making\/\">Fateme Karimkhan, New Lines Magazine, Iran\u2019s Internet Blackout Was Decades in the Making, 1 Jul 2026<br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;While the scale of the recent blackout was unprecedented, it was far from the first time Iranians have been severed from the digital world to enforce social and political control. Internet shutdowns have a long history in Iran, tracing the arc of the country\u2019s modern political turmoil.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mplkrkqr422h\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreid77e2p3dpuqukhsvj6vtauyst27nhwyf3rgqzrzcb3ohxjkn6kfe\"><p lang=\"en\">Important coverage of the most recent net blackout in #Iran, from Fateme Karimkhan @newlinesmag.bsky.social<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mplkrkqr422h?ref_src=embed\">2026-07-01T12:53:53.320Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fateme Karimkhan, New Lines Magazine, Iran\u2019s Internet Blackout Was Decades in the Making, 1 Jul 2026 &#8220;While the scale of the recent blackout was unprecedented, it was far from the first time Iranians have been severed from the digital world to enforce social and political control. Internet shutdowns have a long history in Iran, tracing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,286,536,5],"tags":[58,201,91],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-iran","category-iran-internet","category-research","tag-censorship","tag-iran","tag-iran-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}