‘It’s like being walled in’: young Iranians try to break through internet blackout | Iran
AMir* He didn’t sleep much for days. The 23 -year -old night from his apartment in Northern Tehran spent the proxy connections, the briefly breaking the Internet darkening, the proxy connections.
For 13 days, Iran was under the closure of the internet, which seriously limits access access to information from the beginning of Israeli strikes to Wednesday. However, a group of young Iranians worked uninterruptedly to ensure that their voices reach the outside world.
Supervisor, this week to talk and friends to create a system to create a system, “We can no longer use VPN’lar. We use special proxy connections to make this internet blackout, essentially ‘secret tunnels’ messages through the servers outside Iran,” he said.
“These connections are part of one of the features of the application […] They direct telegraph traffic from an internal server. Each one does it for several hours and then fails. That’s why I’m constantly trying to find new ones to send it to my nation. “
The Iranian government closed access to the internet during the war with Israel and accused its opponents of exploiting the network for military purposes. Local sources told Guardian that no one could access the internet except for reporters working for veterinary foreign media.
Domestic messaging practices continued to work, but young Iranians believe very little in their security.
Amir said: “We have domestic practices, but nonsense. The government, especially student leaders, especially student leaders, use every opportunity to espion.”
Last week, the international AFFPENDIENCE officials called on the darkening of communication and prevents people from finding safe ways, accessing and informing life -saving resources ”.
Leila*, a 22-year-old student leader who lives in Abbas Abad in North-Middle Tehran, said he only managed to reconnect during the closure after receiving help from abroad. “My boyfriend in Europe sent me the configuration connections through the text. I was still completely cut off without this. The internet suddenly works here and there for a few minutes, but it goes before using any website.”
The dimming not only came into contact with the outside world, but also made life more difficult for life under the Israeli bombing. Araş Arash, a student in Tehran, said Arash*like a wall, ”he said. “We lost access to each other, independent news, to help.
The most frightening part for the supervisor was how the war was normalized. Uz We’re starting to behave like this normal, ”he said,“ War is not normal ”. Now he said they knew the shaking as air raids or explosions.
While the war was terrified, he added his darkening concerns. “This is what deletes us… It makes us invisible. And we are still here. We are still trying to connect with the free world.”
* Names changed
