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This post documents Iran's Internet shutdown in early January 2026, observed through Cloudflare Radar data amid widespread protests.
•On January 8, announced IPv6 address space dropped 98.5% at 11:50 UTC, signaling the start of deliberate connectivity disruption
•Between 16:30–17:00 UTC, overall traffic fell nearly 90%, with major providers MCCI, IranCell, and TCI going offline
•By 18:45 UTC, traffic from Iran reached effectively zero, completing a full disconnection from the global Internet
•Brief connectivity windows appeared on January 9 for some universities and 1.1.1.1 DNS access, but were cut off again by 15:00 UTC
•Prior to the shutdown, HTTP/3 and QUIC usage dropped sharply on major networks starting December 31, suggesting layered filtering was implemented first
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