BREAKING: Iran Shutting Down Internet

Access to Google and Gmail was blocked in Iran on Sunday evening, Your Middle East's Tehran correspondent reports.

Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, who is in charge of controlling Iranians' access to the Internet, confirmed the report for Iran Labour News Agency earlier today, saying the measure was taken due to frequent appeals made by the people.

[link to www.yourmiddleeast.com]

More like they are being turned off by other countries that are leaps and bounds above that rudimentary system they call technology. LOL

agreed to that, or they don't want word to get out to the world what they are up to. Communication blackouts are sometimes a prelude to an action of some sort via internally such as a clampdown as you suggest or an external action such as an attempted blockage of the Straight of Hormuz as an example or something else.

We better enjoy having all that here in murrika because it won't be long before our goverment shuts it down they are just as bad or even worse

I wonder if they trying to protect themselves from cyber warfare and attacks being launched by the US or Israel. Remember how their nuclear plants were attacked a while ago.


A destructive cyber worm designed to bring down industrial complexes has Iran's new nuclear power plant in its sights. And a nation such as Israel or China -- or even the United States -- could be behind it, experts say.

[link to www.foxnews.com]

Food for thought.

:Hiding Kitty:

If I were in their shoes I'd shut down the Internet also....

BREAKING: U.S. and Israel shitting on Iran

This is terrible news, how am I going to watch the bombing in real time now?

Muslim porn involves goats, so no one wants to see that anyway...

Muslim porn involves goats, so no one wants to see that anyway...

maybe the CIA will patch us into their spy satellite feed?

Stop plagiarizing me.

no respect... just can't get no respect.

He said it was a response to an anti-Islam movie, mocking the prophet Mohammed, which was uploaded on YouTube recently and provoked anger throughout the Muslim world.


so why are you pimping this out like its the beginning of ww3 just for hits, hint, if you want hits, just keep clicking on your own article, dont pimp

if you are about to go to war, you need to make sure your proganda machine is not influenced by the truth. So they are going to heavily restrict access.

God forbid we lose the internet and have to leave our houses.. ohnoz

god forbid we post comments twice twice.