Internet connectivity in Iran almost completely disappeared on Wednesday, according to web monitoring companies, as the war with Israel enters the sixth day.
Netblocks, a business that monitors internet access around the world, wrote to x This Iran is “now in the middle of an almost total national internet interruption”.
The company’s evaluation was confirmed by other internet monitoring organizations.
Data collected from Viruswhich is a system that “monitors the connectivity of the internet infrastructure in almost real time, aiming to detect macroscopic internet holidays”, showed on Wednesday the sudden collapse of internet connectivity in Iran.
David Belson, head of Data Insight at Internet Infrastructure Cloudflare, told Techcrunch that internet traffic levels in Iran “are now ~ 97% down company data in Iran Internet connectivity.
New internet holidays are coming as Iran and Israel are currently involved in a military conflict. Iran has also experienced several cyberspins since the launch of this latest conflict, including the halls of a large Iranian bank and the encryption exchange. Following the attacks, Iranian News Irib agency said Israel had begun a “mass war on cyberspace” against Iran and Iranian officials Reportedly, he began to restrict access On the internet of the country.
It is not clear, however, what is responsible for the collapse of Iran’s internet, Belson said.
“In similar cases of almost full internet holidays, we often see a simultaneous decline in the IP address announcement, which means that the country’s networks are no longer visible on the internet. However, we have not seen such activity in this case,” Belson told Techcrunch.
“We can only see that traffic has been reduced – the data doesn’t tell us why it fell,” Belson added.
Other internet monitoring experts such as Doug Madory, who works for Kentik, Also saw the same collapse.
“Many Iranian service providers now offline to the second national internet stream in so many days”, Madory wrote to x. “This interruption is more serious than yesterday.”
