{"id":77910,"date":"2019-11-24T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T20:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=77910"},"modified":"2019-11-24T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T20:46:29","slug":"iran-restoring-internet-access-says-advocacy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/11\/24\/iran-restoring-internet-access-says-advocacy-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Restoring Internet Access, Says Advocacy Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77914\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/EnglishInternetWEB-ap_iran_internet2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/EnglishInternetWEB-ap_iran_internet2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/EnglishInternetWEB-ap_iran_internet2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/EnglishInternetWEB-ap_iran_internet2-24x13.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/EnglishInternetWEB-ap_iran_internet2-36x20.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/EnglishInternetWEB-ap_iran_internet2-48x27.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VOA &#8211; DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES &#8211; An advocacy group says internet connectivity is rapidly being restored in Iran after a weeklong government-imposed shutdown in response to widespread protests. The group NetBlocks said Saturday that connectivity had suddenly reached 60% Saturday afternoon. It said on Twitter: &#8220;Internet access is being restored in (hash)Iran after a weeklong internet shutdown amid widespread protests.&#8221; There were reports that internet service remained spotty in the capital, Tehran, though others around the country began reporting they could again access it. The order comes a week after the Nov. 15 gasoline price hike, which sparked demonstrations that rapidly turned violent, seeing gas stations, banks and stores burned to the ground.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Amnesty International said it believes the unrest and the crackdown killed at least 106 people. Iran disputes that figure without offering its own. A U.N. office earlier said it feared the unrest may have killed &#8220;a significant number of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES &#8211; An advocacy group says internet connectivity is rapidly being restored in Iran after a weeklong government-imposed shutdown in response to widespread protests. The group NetBlocks said Saturday that connectivity had suddenly reached 60% Saturday afternoon. It said on Twitter: &#8220;Internet access is being restored in (hash)Iran after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}