Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours

Iran’s internet has been largely dark for 1,008 hours—that’s six weeks—and the comments are louder than the web itself. NetBlocks says connectivity is stuck around 1%, with only a brief blip of service mid‑March, after what they note were joint U.S.-Israel strikes. One user summed up the mood: six weeks of “no direct access” for almost everyone, with only trickles getting through. The drama? Plenty. A heated commenter framed the shutdown as a wartime “tactical move,” tossing in grim, unverified casualty claims that sparked instant pushback. Others kept it sharp and sarcastic—“Bombing civilian infrastructure didn’t turn the Internet back on?”—as the thread split between seeing the blackout as security theater versus a full‑blown rights violation crushing jobs and voices. The plot twist that had everyone clutching their routers: talk of “white SIM cards”—special mobile cards reportedly used by around 50,000 people—creating a two‑tier internet where the connected elite scroll while the public sits in the dark (what’s a white SIM?). Even the nerds brought levity, joking they’re “waiting for the old 100% to drop off” the graph so they can obsess over that thin lifeline of bandwidth. Big picture: the country’s offline, the people are online mad, and the VIP rumors are gasoline on the fire.