Iran Partially Restores Mobile Network After More Than a Week of Shutdown

After more than a week of complete communication paralysis, Iran has finally restored limited mobile network services. Users across the country can now at least send and receive SMS messages, according to reports from Iran International. The partial restoration began yesterday, offering a small but significant lifeline for communication.

However, voice calls remain unavailable as the mobile network is still too weak to support them. Internet services also remain fully shut down, leaving most of the population effectively cut off from reliable communication.

Iran has been rocked by intense anti government protests for nearly twenty days. The scale of the unrest is being described as the largest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In an attempt to contain the movement, authorities gradually shut down mobile networks and the internet nationwide.

The protests are rooted in Iran’s deep economic crisis. Years of currency devaluation have left the Iranian rial among the weakest currencies in the world. The current exchange rate stands at 994,055 rials to one US dollar, a stark indicator of the country’s worsening financial turmoil.