Iran judiciary suspends presidential body after it ordered internet access restored
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday suspended a presidential body that had ordered the restoration of internet access after months of near-total blackout since the war with the United States and Israel.
The judiciary’s Mizan Online website said the ruling suspending the presidential body followed the “filing of complaints,” though it was not immediately clear who had submitted them.
The decision targeted the Special Headquarters for Organizing and Governing the Country’s Cyberspace, a body formed on May 12 by President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The body had on Monday reached a decision to “restore the internet” in Iran, according to government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani, after local media reported that Pezeshkian had decreed the measure.
Iran’s top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, holds the ultimate authority to restore the internet in the country.
Iranian authorities first imposed sweeping internet restrictions during large-scale anti-government protests that peaked in........
