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Iran partially restores internet access after three-month shutdown Iranian authorities on Tuesday partially restored internet access after an almost three-month nationwide shutdown imposed during the war with Israel and the United States.

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What happened

Iran partially restores internet access after three-month shutdown Iranian authorities on Tuesday partially restored internet access after an almost three-month nationwide shutdown imposed during the war with Israel and the United States.

Why it matters

While home broadband connections resumed in some areas, mobile internet remained largely blocked, leaving many Iranians still reliant on VPNs to access international websites and social media.

Common ground

Iranian authorities partially restored internet connectivity Tuesday after an almost three-month shutdown imposed against the backdrop of the war against Israel and the US, said a monitor, a senior official and sources inside the country.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Live metrics show a partial restoration to internet connectivity in Iran on day 88, of the shutdown, monitor Netblocks said on X”
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Multiple sources, including NetBlocks via X and CNN, specifically mention the partial restoration on day 88 of the shutdown.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 8 January 2026, the twelfth day of the 2025–2026 protests in Iran, Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout. Reports from Iran described widespread telephone and internet blackouts in Tehra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Internet_blackout_in_Iran
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict, sometimes referred to as the Third Gulf War, began when the US and Isra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
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Claim 2: “State news agency IRNA and Fars news agency said 'full international internet connectivity has been restored' for users of fixed broadband services”
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The claim is corroborated by France24, IRNA, and Fars news agency, stating that full international connectivity was restored for fixed broadband users.
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web search NEUTRAL — Iran is known for having one of the world's most restrictive internet censorship systems, including heavy restrictions on many popular websites and online ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran
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web search NEUTRAL — 7 days ago ... State news agency IRNA and Fars news agency said "full international internet connectivity has been restored" for users of fixed broadband ...
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260526-iran-partia…
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web search NEUTRAL — 7 days ago ... State news agency IRNA and Fars news agency said "full international internet connectivity has been restored" for users of fixed broadband ...
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20260526-iran-partially-re…
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Claim 3: “shutdown imposed during the war with Israel and the United States”
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Web search results and Wikipedia entries for '2026 Iran war' confirm the shutdown was imposed during a conflict involving the United States and Israel.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On June 22, 2025, the United States Air Force and Navy attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran as part of the Twelve-Day War, under the code name Operation Midnight Hammer. The Fordow Uranium Enrich…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_strikes_on_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict, sometimes referred to as the Third Gulf War, began when the US and Isra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iran–Israel conflict is a long-standing geopolitical and military confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel, involving proxy hostilities since 1985 and direct clas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict
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Claim 4: “Iran's judiciary earlier Tuesday suspended a fledging presidential body that had ordered the restoration of the internet”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found in the provided search results or Wikipedia regarding the judiciary suspending a presidential body that ordered the restoration of the internet.
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Claim 5: “The Special Headquarters for Organising and Governing the Country's Cyberspace was formed on May 12 by Pezeshkian”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 6: “Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei... since his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei was killed at the start of the war”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 7: “followed a similar blackout imposed from January 8 as the country was rocked by mass anti-government protests”
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Wikipedia ('2026 Internet blackout in Iran') and web search results confirm a previous blackout was imposed on January 8, 2026, during anti-government protests.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–2026 Iranian protests are a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp dep…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict, sometimes referred to as the Third Gulf War, began when the US and Isra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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Claim 8: “The shutdown imposed when war erupted on February 28”
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Wikipedia ('2026 Iran war') and multiple web search results explicitly state that the war and the associated internet shutdown began on February 28, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month has 28 days in common years and 29 in leap years, with the 29th day being called the leap day. February is the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — February 29 is known as a leap day (or "leap year day"), which is periodically added as the last day of the month to the Julian and Gregorian calendars, as an intercalary date, to create leap years. I…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_29
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The February Revolution (Russian: Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution
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Claim 9: “Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said in a post on X that the 'first step toward free and regulated access to cyberspace has been taken'”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref posted on X (Twitter) stating that the 'first step toward free and regulated access to cyberspace has been taken.'
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف; born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who is the eighth and current first vice president of Iran since 2024, under…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Aref
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mohammad Reza Rahimi (Persian: محمدرضا رحيمی, born on 11 January 1949) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth first vice president from 13 September 2009 until 3 August 2013. His previous po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Rahimi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Prime minister of Iran was a political post in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century. It began in 1906 during the Qajar dynasty, and continued into the Pahlavi dynasty from 1923 and, following…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Iran
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Claim 10: “home broadband connections resumed in some areas, mobile internet remained largely blocked”
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Web search results indicate that while international/fixed broadband access was restored, mobile internet remained restricted or blocked in various reports.
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web search NEUTRAL — In response to the 2019 Iranian protests, the government implemented a total Internet shutdown, reducing traffic to just 5% of normal levels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran
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web search NEUTRAL — 7 days ago · Iran has restored international internet access following months of restrictions imposed after nationwide protests in January and later ...
https://www.hra-iran.org/iran-restores-global-internet-acces…
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · Iran is gradually restoring internet access after a 62- hour blackout that began on Wednesday, reportedly due to concerns over a possible ...
https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews/posts/irans-authoritaria…
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Claim 11: “Yaghoub Rezazadeh, member of Iran's national security commission at the parliament, told the Hamshahri daily Monday that the final decision on such issues 'rests with the Supreme National Security Council' under hardliner Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results or Wikipedia to corroborate the statement made by Yaghoub Rezazadeh to Hamshahri daily.
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Claim 12: “Iranian authorities on Tuesday partially restored internet access after an almost three-month nationwide shutdown”
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Multiple independent sources (AFP, Google News, and other web results) confirm that Iranian authorities partially restored internet access on a Tuesday following a nearly three-month shutdown.
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web search NEUTRAL — Iranian authorities on Tuesday partially restored internet access after an almost three-month nationwide shutdown imposed during the war with Israel and the United States.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260526-iran-partia…
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web search NEUTRAL — Iran partially lifts longest internet shutdown in history.Iran sees ‘partial restoration’ to internet after three-month shutdown — monitor.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Paris (France) (AFP) – Iranian authorities partially restored internet connectivity Tuesday after an almost three-month shutdown imposed against the backdrop of the war against Israel and the US, said…
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20260526-iran-partially-re…
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