Iran War Updates | Tehran Residents Welcome Easing of Wartime Internet Shutdown

Iranian authorities have eased a monthslong internet shutdown that they cast as a wartime necessity, but that has cost the country's economy an estimated $30-$40 million a day. Internet users on Tuesday reported that access was gradually being restored, at least in some places. State media reported that fixed broadband service was partially restored.Mobile internet wasn't yet working. People in the streets of Tehran welcomed the lifting of restrictions that lasted for months. Iran has long enforced filters and policed content on platforms such as YouTube and Instagram. But before the war, Iranians could bypass restrictions with cheap virtual private networks, known as VPNs, and other easy workarounds.