January 9, 2026
Nationwide internet blackout in Iran as protests grow
It forces a nationwide internet blackout as the biggest wave of unrest in three years continues to grow A nationwide blackout in Iran was reported on Thursday, internet monitoring group NetBlocks said, as protests over economic hardship continued across the country. No further information about the internet outage was immediately available. Witnesses in the capital Tehran and the major cities of Mashhad and Isfahan told Reuters that protesters gathered in the streets again on Thursday, chanting slogans against the Islamic Republic’s clerical rulers. Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the late Shah of Iran who was overthrown in the 1979











