The main mobile telephone network in Iran was cut in the capital Tehran Saturday evening while popular Internet websites Facebook and YouTube also appeared to be blocked, correspondents said.
The communication cuts came after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide re-election victory, sparking rioting in the streets by opposition supporters who claimed the result had been rigged.
The mobile phone network stopped working at 10:00 pm (1730 GMT), just before Ahmadinejad went on television to declare the election a “great victory” and even as baton-wielding police were clashing with protestors in the streets of Tehran, according to witnesses.
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Iran has two national networks run by state-owned MCI (Telecommunication Company of Iran) and the private firm Irancell.
Several Iran-based users logging on via different Internet service providers, meanwhile, said they could reach neither Facebook nor YouTube — the two websites used effectively by young supporters of Ahmadinejad’s moderate rival Mir Hossein Mousavi.
June 15th, 2009 at 6:01 am
Don’t worry everybody, they couldn’t possibly shut down the internet here. lol
madman Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 6:21 am
If Iran can do it, so can anyone else. It’s pretty dang simple to pull a plug out of a D Slam, or cut a fiber line.
Blue Pill Society Reply:
June 15th, 2009 at 7:20 am
true that, i was being sarcastic
June 15th, 2009 at 6:01 am
Testing, eh?… Soon to be applied globally…
June 15th, 2009 at 6:20 am
If only American’s could do the same, willingly, and get out of their house, and actually interact with people again… the world would be a better place.
June 15th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Preview of coming attractions…. Lock and load the party is getting started
June 15th, 2009 at 7:12 am
The Iranian ARE unable to have peaceful elections.
BUT NOT THEIR FAULT…
Its admitted and accepted by OUR GOVERNMENT that there are American Agents is there and for the sole reason of creating havock and instability…
With subversive agents sponsoring and bolstering underground fringe movements that otherwise would never be seen nor heard of this type of fighting is expected…
And with all the agents working to spread mis-information I understand even shutting down the internet inorder to diminish the possibility of false videos/blogg postings increasing the conflict…
the Iranians have few “tools” to battle the NWO and I support them in shutting down already corrupt sights like NWOTUBE….!!
Atleast some countries have the balls to rebel!!!
Its the NWO order that turns it all into WAR….
The NWO’s days are limited now that they are so confident and making such obvious clumbsy moves…
June 15th, 2009 at 8:08 am
YEP, testing testing.
It’s for your safety, Al-CIA-duh might communicate to each other.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:32 am
yep just sounds like another place i know that could be going through the same shit soon.
i didnt even know they had facebook and the tube their.Iran dont sound any different to the USA at all.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:11 am
iran listen to Alex can they get him
June 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
All they want to do is dirty tricks because their dirty tricks are not allowed in Iran.
They want sexual exploitation and ungodly greed to flourish in Iran as they have done to the rest of the world.
They want to destroy the whole world, thinking it will then be in their hands.
But God will put gasoline on all their dirty works, and root out their wickedness from the earth. Selah
Psa 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Pro 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Psa 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.
June 15th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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June 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
[...] The news of alleged election fraud has spread through Tehran like wildfire, pitching ayatollah Rafsanjani’s supporters against ayatollah Khamenei’s in street confrontations. This chaotic situation is secretly stirred by the CIA which has been spreading confusion by flooding Iranians with contradicting SMS messages and Twitter feeds. The temporary loss of the mobile phone network in Iran during the announcement of the election results, was blamed on the government. [...]