Iran's internet blackout has entered its fifth day as the government continues to restrict citizens' access to the web amid protests over fuel price hikes.
According to internet mapping non-profit NetBlocks, Iran's connection began to drop in the city of Mashhad on Friday evening local time. Disruptions "increased in extent and severity" to create a near-total shutdown across multiple cities in the early hours of Saturday, NetBlock's data showed, with connectivity falling to just 4% of ordinary levels.
"As of today, Oracle's Internet Intelligence shows that there was a very minor momentary restoration but otherwise it is unchanged — Iran is still down," a spokesperson told CNBC via email on Thursday.it would ration gasoline and raise prices by at least 50%. Iranian officials dismissed Amnesty's claims as "disinformation" on Wednesday, according to Iranian news agency Fars, which also claimed that "hundreds of thousands" of government supporters had rallied across the country in response to the protests.
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