Alert - All Iranian news sites are in blackout! - Act of Cyberwar?

Helsinki time 12.50 - 10 minutes ago they all blackout - I cant get to Fars News, Press TV, or IRNA - seems that all of the Iranian newsrooms are in blackout at crucial moment, by whom?

Act of war, or what... Any success from anywhere - what is happening over there?

Same here could not get on to Fars News. But got on to press tv and irna fine.

first step towards an impending attack by israel?

Same experience as tarifa37 here too. Fars News is the only one I find not responding at the moment.

Twitter: Reports that government forces have opened fire on protestors and 'First Martyrs today: Leyla Zarei - Age 27'

From Finland - still all mentioned news sites are down.

In my eyes we can see its cyber attack, and when LA times is giving latest video feeds and adress information to opposition members where to gather... Scary.

If someone can hook to Iranian press, and finds out interesting news - please copy/paste news to here, not just links!

www.iranpressnews.com... is working
www.presstv.ir... is not

Apparently the connection has been severed somewhere between Russia and Iran.
1 24 10 6 72.249.128.109 -
2 23 26 20 8.9.232.73 xe-5-3-0.edge3.dallas1.level3.net
3 40 25 44 4.69.145.244 ae-93-90.ebr3.dallas1.level3.net
4 29 33 41 4.69.134.22 ae-7.ebr3.atlanta2.level3.net
5 49 Timed out 72 4.69.132.86 ae-2.ebr1.washington1.level3.net
6 56 41 49 4.69.134.138 ae-81-81.csw3.washington1.level3.net
7 46 41 43 4.68.17.146 ae-3-89.edge1.washington4.level3.net
8 47 49 52 4.53.112.2 cable-wirel.edge1.washington4.level3.net
9 51 49 47 195.2.21.137 xe-5-1-0-xcr1.nyk.cw.net
10 127 125 126 195.2.10.110 xe-7-1-0-xcr1.lsw.cw.net
11 199 197 182 194.112.69.154 rostele-gw.lsw.cw.net
12 201 198 198 87.226.133.142 so-4-0-0.stkm-ar3.intl.ip.rostelecom.ru
13 287 297 296 79.133.75.162 -
14 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
15 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
16 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
17 Timed out Timed out Timed out -

[edit on 11-2-2010 by avatar01]

Confirmed! I'm in NZ can't get to press irna or fars...

This is crazy. Maybe some news leaked and the GOVT shut it down.

Will try stay awake and post anything I find.

reply to post by avatar01


Hehe nice one I like geeks they can do cool stuffs.

reply to post by wycky


presstv.ir works fine here (PA, USA)

current headlines:

says first uranium stock for fuel produced
Two girls wounded by Israeli fire
UK details US torture of Ethiopian-born detainee
Iraq expels Blackwater employees
Yemen says deal with Houthis 'imminent'
NATO launches anti-Taliban operation in Helmand
Makarov: US anti-missile shield targets Russia
Students arrested in LA for heckling Israeli envoy

cant have those pesky web feeds if you are going to do something illegal and then claim to be the victim when you get hit in retaliation.

food for thought.

More likely this is a network problem and not a preamble to any sort of war. No reason to panic.

Israel cannot strike Iran because it wouldn't do any good, and would spark WW3 in which Israel would be annihilated.

[edit on 11-2-2010 by avatar01]

reply to post by Melbourne_Militia


I think maybe they just want to keep a lid on the bad press. It was supposed to be a day to show the world how unified their nation would be but as predicted it's gone belly up. I'm guessing this is just a fail safe plan.

If Israel was thinking about attacking Iran certainly wouldn't want them knowing that they are having a hard time controlling the public.

i have tried following the protests all night www.abovetopsecret.com...

This has been happening all day there. Most of the television there has been regulated, internet has been restricted , moble messaging has been cut off , images and videos altered.

First victim today Leyla Zarei , it is sad .

I'm in Holland and I can access all those sites fine... maybe the problem is solved by now? Could be a routing server that failed or something.

Works for me... (France), bu tI can't access to any information about the 11th celebration of Islamic Revolution...

other websites doesn't work...

reply to post by Fatality


In war - "Control Media" - is the words.

Looks like PressTV has multiple routes and cannot shut down like IRNA and FARS, but still from Finland I can not link to it.

It can be West, so they can spread rumors from great rallies and opposition movements to make their "Human Rights" momentum - or its Iran, which is blocking those news to get out... Who can tell?

We have to folow bloggers and alternative news channels now.

YEP!!! NO MORE BLACKOUT!!!

Cant be no coincidense - Servers are up again, after excact 1 hour in blackout!

It begun in Finland 12.50 like mentioned before, and news opened again 13.50 Helsinki time...

So Blackout was up for exact one hour - Cyber attack - I have no proofs, but there is no other way!

This is clearly an act of censorship, not cyber warfare. It is no coincidence that PressTV, the govt controlled outlet is still accessible to the west while the more objective ones are not.

It is amazing to me that so many want to ignore the brutality of the Iranian govt. and seek to paint them as a victim in this drama.

reply to post by JanusFIN


From everyone on blogs/twitter/facebook what i understood is basically that this event was supposed to show Iran's unity to the outside world , only that when the government press arrived at square , green was everywhere therefore confusing them regarding what they should be recording and what they shouldn't.

People there say that they used some video altering program to take out the green. You can still clearly hear the protester's chants saying " Down with the dictator" and so on. So basically they started recording just certain areas with people in favor of the current regime and so on. They pretty much showed just what they wanted to show , nothing else