NetBlocks: Iran’s Internet ‘Flatlines’ After U.S., Israeli Strikes

Iran’s internet went largely offline Saturday after U.S. and Israeli strikes that officials said targeted infrastructure and killed dozens of senior figures at a compound in Tehran, the global monitor NetBlocks said.

NetBlocks CEO Alp Toker told Fox News Digital that connectivity began “flatlining” shortly after the attacks and fell to about 1 percent. He said the blackout was imposed just after 7:00 UTC, with telecom disruption starting about an hour earlier and the blackout largely in effect by 8:00 UTC.

Toker said the pattern was “straight out of Iran’s wartime playbook” and consistent with shutdowns seen during the 2025 Twelve-Day War with Israel. He told Fox News Digital the shutdown was likely intended to secure communications and limit the leakage of location data and other intelligence from user devices.

President Donald Trump, on Truth Social, called the operation “heavy and pinpoint” and said bombing “will continue uninterrupted throughout the week or as long as necessary” to achieve what he called “PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” He also urged Iranian security forces seeking immunity to “peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots,” and wrote, “Now they can have Immunity; later they only get Death!”

NetBlocks and Toker noted that nationwide blackouts of this scale are rare. Iran has previously imposed sweeping internet shutdowns during periods of domestic unrest, including nationwide protests in January that, according to reports, resulted in large numbers of deaths.

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