Iran Reconnects to the Internet After 88 Days in Digital Darkness

For 88 days, millions of Iranians lived in digital darkness after the authorities imposed a nationwide Internet shutdown following the outbreak of war with the United States and Israel. But the end of one of the world’s longest-ever Internet blackouts offered scant consolation for many Iranians who reconnected to the same heavily filtered and state-controlled network after nearly three months. Still, some Iranians were relieved to escape the near-complete isolation forced on the Middle Eastern country of some 90 million people. “The…