The Iranian internet interference adds new risks to civilians amid Israeli bombings

Alimardani says it seems that mobile devices data services are incomplete, and for many people, virtual private networks have stopped, which can be used to avoid control, from work. This means that it was difficult to access people in the country and perhaps from getting information out, says Alimardani. “Some of the family that left Tehran today was in a non -connection to the Internet and separated from the Internet and finally found some connection when it was 200 km outside Tehran in another province,” explains Alimardani. “My ties are primarily with people who use Wi-Fi BroadBand Home, but it was even unstable.”

Over the past decade, the two countries have increased the increasing step of closing the entire Internet connection or partial for citizens in times of the visible crisis. There was 296 closing last yearAccording to the arrival now, the non -profit Internet rights that follow the procedures – the highest number of anything registered. Often the closure Associated with repressive governments Trying to restrict protests that can harm them, to reduce people’s ability to gather and communicate freely, as part of conflicts, and even try to cheat in exams.

Hanna Cretim, Director of Internet Technology and Development at the Internet Association, which was Follow the power outage in Iran. Cretim says that when I began contacting Iran to decline on June 13, he heard from people with relatives in Iran that their services had slowed down. “People use it under fire to get news, ask for help, get to know the safest areas, and communicate with their loved ones. And for people abroad to know what is going on and know their loved ones.”

To reduce communication, countries use multiple different technical ways. Iran was its development Internet alternativeThe Interint system is called National Information NetworkKnown as nine, for years. Nine, according to Analysis by Freedom HouseThe “levels” allow access to the Internet and allow the government to monitor content and push people towards the applications of Iran, such as the primitive messaging applications, which may contain “weak privacy and safety features”. (Freedom House establishes Iran as “not free” in the latest Internet freedom standardsHighlighting the constant closure, increasing costs, and efforts to push people to the local internet.)

Amir Rashidi, director of digital rights and security in the Miaan Group, the human rights organization that focuses on Iran, says that in the last closure, there have been increasing efforts to push people towards Iranian applications. “In a climate of fear, where people simply try to stay in contact with their loved ones, many resort to these unsafe platforms of despair,” published connectedTelling WIRED that the messaging application is called Bale seems to be ancient. “Since they are hosted in NIN, they will work even during the closure,” he says.

Lucas Olinic, an independent advisor in the Department of War Studies at Kings University in London, says Iran is not the first country to restrict people access to the Internet – and not controlled information – with a potential justification for protecting cybersecurity or security on a larger scale. Global closure on the Internet has also increased over the past decade, says Olinic, officials in Myanmar, India, Russia and Caleria have been killed by security reasons for the implementation of power outages.

“The closure of the Internet is largely ineffective against electronic attacks at the state level in the real world,” says Olignik. He explains that military and critical infrastructure systems, such as energy networks or transportation systems, will usually work on separate and unacceptable networks from open internet. Olejnik says: “Vocational electronic operations can use other means of access, although it might make it already difficult to lead and control some harmful programs (if this is the case),” says Olejnik. “What will be prohibited in the first place is to access information to society.”

The witness “Alimardani” says that the technical details that support any allegations that Internet restrictions aim to protect cybersecurity “unclear”, and in the end, the goal of these efforts may be to control people inside Iran. “The official narration of government news channels depicts a strong war against Israel and the victory road,” Alimardani says. “Free and open access to the media would undermine this narration, and in the worst case, the Iranians can incite the rebellion, which increases the erosion of the power of the regime.”