On February 28th, 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, and the Iranian regime once again reached for the Internet "kill switch." Similar to the January 2026 shutdown am...

On January 8th, 2026, the Iranian regime implemented an Internet shutdown amidst national protests. This shutdown is the most sophisticated and most severe in Iran’s history. IODA's longitudinal view ...

Iran’s internet shutdown cuts off most communication with the outside world during violent repression of national protests.

IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis) monitors Internet infrastructure connectivity to identify outages.

Authors: Miaan Group, ASL19, IODA Contributors: Kentik, Cloudflare, OONI, Tor, Lantern, eQualitie, Psiphon Executive Summary The June 2025 Internet shutdown in Iran, carried out during the war with Is...

As of September 29, 2025, at 12:30 a.m., IODA data shows a complete Internet shutdown across the entire country of Afghanistan. BGP signals and Active Probing both dropped simultaneously and significa...

When we think about Internet censorship, Internet shutdowns or blocking are often the scenarios that come to mind. Yet, bandwidth throttling—slowing down Internet connections—is an increasingly preval...