Iran anticipates renewed protests amid social media shutdown.
The semi-official news agency ILNA quoted an informed source at the Communications and Information Technology Ministry as saying mobile internet access to overseas sites was blocked by"security authorities" in Alborz, Kurdestan and Zanjan provinces in central and western Iran and Fars in the south.
Internet blockage observatory NetBlocks said on Twitter:"Confirmed: Evidence of mobile internet disruption in parts of #Iran ...real-time network data show two distinct drops in connectivity this morning amid reports of regional outages; incident ongoing.""I just checked myself and asked a friend, and the internet is off on our mobiles," a resident in Ahvaz, the capital of the oil-producing Khuzestan province, told Reuters.
Iran's three mobile operators also denied experiencing any internet disruptions, the YJC news agency reported.ATTA KENARE / AFP - Getty Images The weapons seized in Isfahan included assault rifles, handguns and pellet guns, the state news agency IRNA said."Most of the weapons carry USA badges and are American-made," it added.
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