{"id":1003925,"date":"2026-04-20T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003925"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:52:04","slug":"iran-eases-internet-curbs-for-professors-as-nationwide-blackout-hits-day-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/iran-eases-internet-curbs-for-professors-as-nationwide-blackout-hits-day-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran eases internet curbs for professors as nationwide blackout hits day 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s government said on Sunday that it would restore wider Internet access for the country\u2019s university professors, Iranian state media reported, even as the rest of the population heads into its 51st day of a near-total Internet blackout. <\/p>\n<p>The shutdown, which Iran said it imposed because of national security concerns during the war with the US and Israel, has cut access to the Internet for most of the country\u2019s population of over 90 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s government said on Sunday that it would restore wider Internet access for the country\u2019s university professors, Iranian state media reported, even as the rest of the population heads into its 51st day of a near-total Internet blackout. The shutdown, which Iran said it imposed because of national security concerns during the war with the US and Israel, has cut access to the Internet for most of the country\u2019s population of over 90 million.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003925","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=1003925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}