“Technically, for them, even though I’m using Skype, it’s not the internet,” says Rad, who is based in California. She adds that despite the blackout, she received an email from a friend in Iran at 2:30 am Pacific time Tuesday morning.
“There are these pockets where they’ll have some internet connection,” she says, adding that she has also heard, but cannot verify, reports of people in Iran acquiring a VPN to connect to the Internet.
On Tuesday morning, Mina was also able to get in touch with relatives and friends using Skype credits as well. “They too are in the dark about what is going on in their country due to the internet shutdown, and it frightens me that our ability to communicate is so limited,” she says. “I still have not been able to directly reach many others.”
How the Iranian Government Shut Off the Internet
By
Lily Hay Newman
After trying to use Skype and messaging apps to call landlines, Mana Kharrazi, an Iranian American based in New York, kept getting busy signals. She was finally able to get in touch with one of her relatives, who had an online connection at work, on Monday night. Kharrazi did not want to disclose her relative’s place of employment for safety reasons.
“It was a relief, because we’ve gone for days not hearing about them and not knowing which cities are experiencing the most violence,” she says. “Today was the first day where I woke up and wasn’t in a state of panic.”
Kharrazi’s relatives told her it’s relatively quiet where they live in Tehran, and that most of the demonstr ..
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