# Internet and platform restrictions remain in force under the new government

Date: 2024

## The fact

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](/people/riad-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](/organizations/us-treasury) designations, or Israeli cabinet strike orders. An IRGC operation is not automatically his Fact.

## Evidence and sources

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

## Significance

The path is [personal-data protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection) and [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): completed continued platform filtering is a civic-speech and access cost.

## What is established and what is not

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.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

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. Internet and platform restrictions remain in force under the new government on 2024-10-01 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Internet and platform restrictions remain in force under the new government into a personality. 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.

## People

- Masoud Pezeshkian: https://factrail.ai/people/masoud-pezeshkian

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection
- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/technology/iran-internet-restrictions-continue-pezeshkian-2024/
- https://www.president.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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