Iran faces internet blackout as demonstrators respond to exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s protest call
Internet access and telephone lines in Iran were disrupted on Thursday night (January 8) after demonstrators joined a protest called by exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. Internet monitoring firm Cloudflare and advocacy group NetBlocks reported sharply reduced internet traffic, attributing the outage to government intervention. Calls from Dubai to Iran, both landlines and mobile, were…