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Internet and platform restrictions remain in force under the new government

Through 2024–25 Iran’s filtering of foreign platforms and periodic throttling continued under President Pezeshkian; he did not gazette an unblocking statute. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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Through 2024–25 Iran’s filtering of foreign platforms and periodic throttling continued under President Pezeshkian; he did not gazette an unblocking statute.

Context

The Supreme Council of Cyberspace sits above a president. Neighbouring hijab digital-enforcement is a parallel file. A president who does not unblock owns continued filtering as an executive choice.

Hijab 2024 digital enforcement is neighbouring. 2026 wartime shutdowns are later.

The President of Iran is head of the executive, not commander-in-chief of the IRGC or the armed forces. That command sits with the Supreme Leader. Pezeshkian does not write IAEA Board resolutions, US Treasury designations, or Israeli cabinet strike orders. An IRGC operation is not automatically his Fact.

Why it matters

The path is personal-data protection and democratic resilience: completed continued platform filtering is a civic-speech and access cost.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Masoud Pezeshkian

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.55 · verified

    He did not gazette an unblock. Cyberspace councils filtered. ISPs implemented. Users routed around.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Iran internet restrictions continue under PezeshkianReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Presidency of Iran — biographical record of Masoud Pezeshkian as health minister 2001–2005Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: 2024–25 continued platform filtering without an unblocking gazette, independently reported.

Not established: that he designed the 2019 shutdown, or a unique later GDP-digital coefficient.

Cyberspace councils filtered. ISPs implemented. Users routed around.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Internet and platform restrictions remain in force under the new government, not a later speech about Internet and platform restrictions remain in force under the new government.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He did not gazette an unblock. Cyberspace councils filtered. ISPs implemented. Users routed around. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMasoud Pezeshkian
  2. contributed toFactInternet and platform restrictions remain in force under the new government
  3. weakensDrivers (2)Personal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Internet and platform restrictions remain in force under the new government. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-internet-2024

https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-internet-2024

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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