What Iran’s reopened internet will not show you |
After 87 days of blackout, Iran has restored internet access. While the concealed crackdown killed thousands, Western student movements that filled campuses for Gaza went silent.
On Monday, Iran’s President Pezeshkian ordered the restoration of international internet access after 87 days of blackout.
The blackout had two phases. The first began on January 8, hours after anti-government protests spread across all Iranian provinces. The second tightened after the United States and Israel struck Iran on February 28. Officials called both security measures. The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Mai Sato, told Reuters what the security measures were used for: hospitals raided, patients with gunshot wounds removed by security forces, families charged $5,000 to $7,000 ransoms to recover bodies.
During the crackdown, up to 20,000 civilians were killed by the........