Key Highlights
- Iran was plunged into an internet blackout Saturday after Israel and the U. S.
- launched military strikes around the country, according to a global internet monitor.
- Within hours of the strikes — which officials said targeted infrastructure and killed dozens of senior regime figures at a compound in Tehran— NetBlocks CEO Alp Toker confirmed connectivity started "flatlining.""We're tracking the ongoing blackout, but our assessment is that this is straight out of Iran's wartime playbook and consistent both technically and strategically with what we saw during the 2025 Twelve-Day War with Israel," Toker told Fox News Digital.
- "Iran's internet connectivity is now flatlining around the 1% level, so the original blackout the regime imposed during the morning has been consolidated," he confirmed.
- "The blackout was imposed just after 7:00 UTC, not long after the attack on the Iranian regime compound," Toker clarified, adding that Iran had been largely offline for approximately 12 hours following the attack.
