{"id":1002885,"date":"2026-04-15T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002885"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:59:44","slug":"iran-internet-near-blackout-persists-for-45-days-connectivity-severed-for-over-1056-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/iran-internet-near-blackout-persists-for-45-days-connectivity-severed-for-over-1056-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Internet &#8216;near blackout&#8217; persists for 45 days; connectivity severed for over 1,056 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran: Iranian authorities are persisting with a widespread internet shutdown that has now entered its 45th day, severely restricting digital access across the country. <\/p>\n<p>According to the cybersecurity watchdog NetBlocks, the state-imposed restrictions have led to a &#8220;near blackout on the country&#8217;s internet services&#8221;. In a report detailing the scale of the disruption, the organisation noted that the blackout has persisted for six weeks, &#8220;with international connectivity severed for over 1,056 hours&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran: Iranian authorities are persisting with a widespread internet shutdown that has now entered its 45th day, severely restricting digital access across the country. According to the cybersecurity watchdog NetBlocks, the state-imposed restrictions have led to a &#8220;near blackout on the country&#8217;s internet services&#8221;. In a report detailing the scale of the disruption, the organisation noted that the blackout has persisted for six weeks, &#8220;with international connectivity severed for over 1,056 hours&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}