Iran plans to move to ‘absolute digital isolation’ following massive protests, bloodshed: report

The Iranian government is reportedly planning to permanently sever its citizens from the global internet — confining them instead to a state-run system as part of a continued crackdown on dissent following the Islamic regime’s slaughtering of thousands of protesters.

Filterwatch, a digital rights monitoring project which has tracked Iranian internet censorship since 2012, says info it obtained indicates Tehran is moving toward “absolute digital isolation.”

The Islamic Republic is abandoning its old model of “mass internet censorship” in favor of a “permanent shift” toward a “sealed intranet” while “access to the outside world is granted only to those with security clearance,” Filterwatch said.

The Iranian government run by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is said to be planning to permanently cut off most of