Third Cable Cut -- Now Iran Has No Internet Access
I told you early Wednesday morning that much of the Middle East and most of India lost Internet access when an undersea cable was cut (it turns out that two cables were cut). Now, a third cable or possibly a fourth has apparently been severed, and the entire nation of IRAN HAS ZERO INTERNET ACCESS. UPDATE 10:52 AM 2/2/2008: Note that Iran is currently online -- the questions, still unresolved, are: 1) Did Iran experience an outage yesterday; 2) were 2, 3 or 4 cables cut; and 3) was it sabotage or accident?
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I hope Al Qaeda file a strongly-worded complaint about this. How can they be expected to run an efficient terrorist network when the West can't even run a reliable internet system?
It's finally happened, Iran will no longer be censoring Internet access for the duration of the outage. Freedom at last for the Iranian people!
Pres Bush is behind this....and Lord Vadar carried out his command
The article you link to doesn't mention Iran. Where did you get that information?
Is this the weekend of the attack on Iran by the Zionist/neocon?
These criminals monsters have to be stop or we will be next.
More likely that the USA is planning a massive attack and don't want witnesses of the masacre that will have in Iraq and Iran.
After all, no internet means that the only point of view will be the CNN news. Which looks more like a briefing from the Pentagon than news.
loulou is a antisemitic paranoid idiot and the Anon that posted after him is an idiot that has never watched CNN.
I am sure they both have tinfoil hats on.
it's either the Zionist or Bush or both are behind this.
The world is probably a better place because of this. Some people just should not have access to the net...
Regarding the comments here and elsewhere that the U.S. cut access to Iran (or Israel) as a precursor to military attack: When this doesn't happen, I want you all to acknowledge that you were wrong about this, OK? ; )
Regarding the comment that "the world is probably a better place because of this. Some people just should not have access to the net..."
It doesn't make sense to lump together a repressive government and that government's victims (the people of Iran) when heaping scorn.
Mike Elgan
But where will i get my hot persian porn from?
Same deal for Germany and part of Africa it seems.
Lol, a james bond style villan is tooling around in a home made submarine cutting cables.
I am legion
I've been using the net 24/7 since the last week and no problem till now, I currently send this from Tehran, nonesense news !
Crap! How will they know the details for Tehran Bubble flash mob on Monday?
Most just assume those graphs are correct without doing any research.
I from iran, interweb works fine. Praise be allah.
Interesting,
Talk about a new kind of terrorism, emagine if your internet service was cut off, we would all go crazy, so I like this tactic, Iran deserves a little taste of reverse terrorism.
Iran still has internet access. One router in Iran does not equate a whole country. Do you mindless sheep simply believe everything this crappy site tells you? Visit: http://www.president.ir/fa/ - I mean, come on, think for yourself people.
Everybody knows that the New World Order is after Iran. Bush is a puppet with no influence whatsoever. And you are right on top of the pyramid are some zionists like the Rothschild
and the jewish bankers that founded the illuminati and are influencing the Bilderberg-Group and the in the USA the Council on Foreign Relations
with Rockefeller. But not all of them are jewish. Altogether they are pushing for war. They have also the UN on their side, because it is all a cabal of criminal and anti-democratic control-freaks that want a world government and rule the whole
world.
I think most people who posted here shouldn't have access to the internet
oh so somebody talks about disagreeing with isreals foriegn policy, and now they are antisemetic. fuck you. nobody cares anymore, and you can't use the holocaust as a crutch, you whiny disgrace of a people. over the course of time you've been kicked out of 198 nations. when a group of people are expelled from every nation on the planet, is it everyone else, or are you really just the pieces of shit that you try so hard to make us think you arent. people are fucking sick of you. give palestine back to its rightful owners and stop perpetrating your weak fairy tale on who's existence you rely.
I too am so sick of the holocaust being used as a crutch. Isreal would fall like a house of cards without the US backing it.
Just go back to your 1948 boarders and leave everyone else alone.
Does this mean I'll get less spam?
According to your website link, FLORIDA does not have internet access either!!
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
As Simon pointed out above, one router does not = total internet access. To wit, ran a traceroute (picks up from the 2nd bounce, for privacy reasons:
2 at-1-0-0-1710.core-rtr1.bos.verizon-gni.net (130.81.7.17) 19.889 ms 19.945 ms 19.869 ms
3 so-0-2-0-0.bb-rtr1.bos.verizon-gni.net (130.81.20.84) 20.076 ms 19.714 ms 19.945 ms
4 0.so-2-2-0.xl1.bos4.alter.net (152.63.16.9) 22.103 ms 22.111 ms 22.390 ms
5 0.so-5-0-0.xl1.dfw7.alter.net (152.63.98.101) 77.338 ms 76.855 ms 77.308 ms
6 pos6-0.gw5.dfw7.alter.net (152.63.101.33) 77.162 ms 81.589 ms 86.697 ms
7 orange-ftgroup-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.138.122) 77.545 ms 77.127 ms 77.544 ms
8 pos0-1-1-0.daltr1.dallas.opentransit.net (193.251.240.142) 77.787 ms 77.982 ms 77.377 ms
9 so-1-2-0-0.atlcr3.atlanta.opentransit.net (193.251.240.141) 96.437 ms 95.932 ms 100.018 ms
10 po1-0.ashcr2.ashburn.opentransit.net (193.251.240.153) 134.179 ms po5-0.ashcr2.ashburn.opentransit.net (193.251.241.157) 141.649 ms po14-0-0.ashcr2.ashburn.opentransit.net (193.251.243.25) 110.627 ms
11 gi1-0.ashcr1.ashburn.opentransit.net (193.251.241.53) 112.129 ms gi0-0-0.ashcr1.ashburn.opentransit.net (193.251.241.41) 112.959 ms gi1-0.ashcr1.ashburn.opentransit.net (193.251.241.53) 112.662 ms
12 tengige0-3-0-1.pastr1.paris.opentransit.net (193.251.240.149) 201.351 ms 201.702 ms 201.505 ms
13 te10-3.passe1.paris.opentransit.net (193.251.240.150) 231.167 ms 212.646 ms 200.518 ms
14 193.251.247.166 (193.251.247.166) 199.800 ms 199.194 ms 199.780 ms
15 194.225.151.13 (194.225.151.13) 738.595 ms 749.862 ms 732.673 ms
16 n2-r2-c7206.iranet.ir (194.225.150.2) 739.637 ms 737.904 ms 733.151 ms
... so a complete run from Boston to Tehran is happening. Verify, verify, verify ...
***** a complete run from Boston to Tehran is happening. *****
Yes: access has been restored. I posted this blog entry yesterday at around 1pm Pacific, at which time it appears that Iran was cut off.
Mike Elgan
I can't believe how stupid people are. My guess is that it's mostly Americans.
Iran has nothing to do with Al Qaeda. American know they were lied to about Iraq, yet they go and buy up all the bull shit Fox news can cram down their fat obese throats.
It's like they bought a lemon of a car from a used car sales men, and when it broke they went back to the same sales man to buy another one.
And for your info the biggest terrorists on this planet is America and Israel.
Xenu is behind this!
harbl.wetfish.net/cosplay
Perhaps this is a terrorist plot against Iran, what goes around comes around...It couldn't happen to a nicer country...NOT
Iran is not cutoff from the internet. People need to stop being so damn gullible. This war propaganda is soooo boring.
***** And for your info the biggest terrorists on this planet is America and Israel. *****
"Terrorism" is:
"The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons."
You can call, if you wish, either Israel or the United States, warmongers and strongly disagree with their foreign policies, military actions, etc., but calling them "terrorist" just kills your credibility as a critic.
So, for example, when Israel uses a helicopter gunship to blow up a car with a cell leader or bomb maker or some other person like that, the intent is not to create fear but to kill the killer and provide a disincentive for additional attacks. When they build walls or "blockade" a town, their intent is to stop further attacks on Israel.
When a real terrorist group, such as Hama, deliberately kills innocent people with a suicide bomber, that's terrorism because the intent is to use fear as a weapon. Fear is the tactic, not assassination or protection.
You can disagree with the Iraq war all day, but you can't say that America's goal is to strike fear into the hearts of Iraqis. On the contrary, the U.S. is trying to build the confidence of the population there in the face of real attacks (like Al Qaeda sending two retarded women to blow up children in Baghdad, which happened yesterday).
So, again, if you're going to criticize, don't weaken your case by conspicuously misusing emotionally loaded terms for effect.
Mike Elgan
***** Iran is not cutoff from the internet. *****
Again, the question is whether they were cut off from the Internet YESTERDAY, not today.
Mike Elgan
We do not forget. We do not forgive.
***** We do not forget. We do not forgive. *****
Nobody knows what that means! -Mike Elgan
I'm in India and I can vouch for the fact that there have been no outages here. My ISP is Bharti, India's largest private ISP and telecom provider.
While there has been an increased latency delay and slower speeds, we are still connected (even for bandwidth intensive apps like torrent downloads) to the rest of the world. And that includes IRAN.
Never believe all you read on the internet.
I am writing this comment from Tehran. Although we had a low speed connection during these days but it was never completely down.
I have a favor from all you folks. Please do not call Iranians terrorist.It is true that we have dictatorial government and they support terrorism and we are suffering from our government more than anyone. A dedicatorial government has nothing to do with it's people. And we need you to support us and do not punish us for our government.
I wish for a day that peace return to Iran.
***** I'm in India and I can vouch for the fact that there have been no outages here. *****
No, you can't. ; )
The Indian outage affected some 60% to 70% of Indian users, and only briefly, as the country quickly found alternative routes.
About 40% or 30% of Indian users experienced zero outages, apparently.
Mike Elgan
From Tehran: ***** I have a favor from all you folks. Please do not call Iranians terrorist.It is true that we have dictatorial government and they support terrorism and we are suffering from our government more than anyone. A dedicatorial government has nothing to do with it's people. And we need you to support us and do not punish us for our government.*****
Well said and thank you for saying it! You certainly have MY support.
Mike Elgan
tl;dr
I cut the cables for the lulz. Y^_^Y
how do you people know that the Iranian government is oppressive in the first place?
if you live in Iran, go ahead and talk. But most of you just know how to quote all these bull$h1t news channels that get force-fed into your eyes and ears. I love the way how the USA and its allies have the right to have nuclear armaments, but it's 'terrorism' when a country wishes to develop nuclear powerplants for its people.
***** how do you people know that the Iranian government is oppressive in the first place?*****
Gosh, how do we even know if Iranians speak Farsi? Maybe they speak Spanish there -- or Dutch. It's impossible to know unless you live there.
Gimme a break, dude. The repressive nature of Iran's government is spectacularly well documented by residents, human rights groups, the U.N. journalists, writers and other observers.
***** I love the way how the USA and its allies have the right to have nuclear armaments, but it's 'terrorism' when a country wishes to develop nuclear power plants for its people.*****
This bit contains two piles of bullshit, then blended:
1) The U.S., most other countries and the U.N. have signed nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation treaties with the aim of reducing the spread of and stockpiles of nuclear weapons in general. Iran signed some of these treaties, and the international community is trying to get them to stick to their own agreements.
As part of other agreements, the U.S. has massively reduced nuclear weapons, and could do so further depending on collective adherence to the treaties.
If you want to come out against non-proliferation treaties, then say so.
2) Nobody is calling Iran terrorist because it "wishes to develop nuclear powerplants." Everyone calls Iran a state sponsor of terrorism because it's a state and it sponsors terrorism.
Again, the issue is not the development of domestic nuclear energy. The issue is adherence to the treaty Iran signed over non-proliferation, which requires any peaceful nuclear program to be inspected and monitored in order to prove there is no weapons program. If there was no intent to build nuclear weapons, Iran could easily prove these by sticking to the agreements it signed.
Mike Elgan
Mike Elgan is a fool. and as shameful as it is, a good representative of the ignorant masses of Amerika.
blogs are nothing but web rubbish, clogging up real news with unprovable theory. don't quit your day job!
Being Anti-Zionist doesn't make you anti-semitic, There are orthodox Jewish groups that oppose Zionism.
it seems that the pic at the top was opened in ms paint and the monitors were colored gray. badly. WTF.
Cool. I guess we'll all just bitch at each other until it's proven who has the right answer. Until someone's proven to be the most intelligent...and then proceed to NOT do a damn thing about it...except to keep bitching until we feel like we're the smartest person with the best answers. Real productive. I'm sure it'll solve all of this crazy world's problems.
The Orthodox Jewish groups that oppose Zionism do it because they believe that Israel isn't Jewish enough, not out of any sympathy for "Palestinians"(who were a fictionally created entity).
I say it was caused by paradox stemming from a battle between Iteration X and the Virtual Adepts! Ascension is near! LOLz
Your linking to the Internet Traffic Report site and saying Iran has/had "ZERO INTERNET ACCESS" is deceptive and misleading.
The Internet Traffic Report site only tracks a handful of border routers (in Iran's case, just one), not the hundreds that bring internet access into a country.
Your link only shows that ONE border router in Iran was/is down. And based on independent verification, Iran never left the internet.
This is what Happ ens when you don't trade the dollar and you trade the euro.
Bush eats penis
Bush licks tuna Vaginas
i like the comment from the iranian. lets remember these are people, just like us, who cant change their govt.
while its most likely this is an accident, i want to add...theres a rumor going round that bush will nuke iran in april/may. and certainly in common sense one would think this would not be. but perhaps the neocons have stepped up the plans, bush may and can stop elections if a disaster comes. iran will not accept the failing dollar for oil. If you can read this in Iran,...im really sry but get out now.
in all honesty, i hope the dollar fails quickly. to borrow and print the way we do, really -china stop lending us money, we have bad credit score
This has precedent. This means war.
All I can say................
Issue ORDER 66
All I can say is.............
Issue Order 66
Hey the real question is how come the o answer ISPs will still charge us for the service that has not been delivered, I wish there is a meter device like utilities charging us.I called many regional ISPs on this but they are struggling with other problems to answer this one.
Well the people the "claim" this is an American conspiracy and that it must be an attempt to silence Iran are twits! Do you actually think America would try such a thing? Such an Accusatory statement sounds almost like America accusing Iraq of having WMDs! lol.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/index.html
speaking of cnn they are reporting the same story
Just because you reached a web page or ran a trace resolving to Iran, Doesn't mean that is where it originated from or ended. If I controlled 'Many servers', I could make you think you are somewhere your not.
He who controls the Net, controls your I/O.
Iran was expected to open its oil bourse this week to compete with London and NY. It was expected to trade oil for currencies other than US dollars.
The explanation for the cutting of Iran's internet communications lies at the end of that thread.
When preparing to go to war with a nation, if you can cut off their communications with the outside world you do it.
Didn't you idiot kids learn anything from Star Wars Episode I?
Expect Bush's 3rd failed war to begin soon.
Its probably the Muslim Tug of War Alternate Suicidal Attack Plan cause they taking a breather. Their idea of winning at war is to not invite anyone of their enemy so to take them by surprise. Is this a surprise following the new Hologram Conference method which is suppose to take place in the United Arab Emirates. According to this conservative effort it saves production of 15 tonnes of carbon dioxide which result from flying Prince Charles to Abu Dhabi to deliver a Speech at an International Energy Summit, his brother Prince Andrew who is attending the conference in person. Prince Charles Hologram is a recorded video to run five minutes and was recorded about a month ago focusing on the nation's attempt to create the world's first zero-waste and zero-emission city at Masdar. http://www.tv3.co.nz/Video/PrinceCharleshologramspeaksatenergysummit/tabid/311/articleID/44040/cat/64/Default.aspx
Iranians have limited to no satellite scramblers to shutdown our U.S. Fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf. Our technologies are far beyond the consumer version that Castro's security feels would make some dent as their effort to gain Iranian support in the region now that Saddam is not longer a major figure that marched to a tune of Russian Diplomacy before the Kuwait and Iraq War with Skud missles. Internet outages were disrupted in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf (one of two Internet service providers was completely down). A official who works in the Customer Care Department of DU, Hamed, the affected ISP, told The Assoc. Press that the reason for the outage was a fault on a Fiber Submarine Cable located between Alexandria, Egypt, and Palermo, Italy; describe the technical fault but that engineers contracted by DU were working to solve the problem. Major University Campuses are affected by the DU services in Dubai Media City, Internet City and Knowledge Village, the Dubai International Financial Center, including the Bourse, Major Malls, and Big Residential Communities including the Palm Jumeira artificial island off Dubai's coast (late at night browsing is almost impossible). No outage in Kuwait, but some service was down in Saudi Arabia. Most every nation is experiencing slow Internet, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, all because of a Mediterranean Sea Submarine International Communications Cable rupturing. Iran began Internet filtering in 2004-2005. Iranian Router (router1.iust.ac.ir) located in Iran (Tehran) is a complete loss (The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm). For Asia the network is 85 % efficient (for the past 24 hours). Back in June - July 2005, when due to a fibre cut of SEAMEWE3 off Karachi, Pakistan. In 2006 Iran throttled their Internet access to 128kbps, yet Iran banned CNN satellite access for all its citizens. I am not accusing anyone of a cable tapping incident. Looking at the throughput map, Iran and China have increased (2x) their throughputs could be explained cause they don't share the surviving lines anymore. Right now, Iran rejects Iraq oil well charges, Iran is willing to resolve any ambiguities within the mixed commission of the 'the fifth article of the June 13, 1975, protocol related to the re-demarcation of the land boundary between Iran and Iraq'. The Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Monday, @Such claims are unfounded and those who accuse the Islamic Republic of exploiting Iraqi oil wells have not provided adequate documents on the issue." Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson has called the recent allegations against Tehran, regarding the common oil fields with Iraq as 'invalid'. Internet Cable of Iran 'Rayan Faragard Co' company is working AOK.
The point of cutting a cable isn't to cut a country's communications. The point is to force the country off their fiber link (which the NSA can't read) and onto their microwave backup (which the NSA can read easily).
Last week my friend sent me the article about two internet cables going to Iran that were cut. Two weeks ago Bush went to the Middle East on a 'peace mission'. Now today I just read two stories about Iran beginning their oil bourse and switching to petro-euros soon (this month). Sounds like we'll be attacking Iran any time now. First you cut off their communication sources.
Let's pray this isn't the case.
Third Cable Cut -- Now Iran Has No Internet Access
http://www.therawfeed.com/2008/02/third-cable-cut-now-iran-has-no.html
Fragile Dollar Hegemony: Iran's Oil Bourse could Topple the Dollar
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7998
Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/17450
In case anyone's interested in the reality of US politics rather than conspiracy theories, Congress needs to approve the use of military force (as they did in Irag and Afghanistan). There can be no "secret" attack on Iran without this approval and the goings-on in Congress is made public (one of the side effects of this whole open government thing). Unless there's been a vote approving the use of military force in Iran that I somehow missed, I'd say Iran is save from US invasion.
As for rerouting traffic over microwave links to snoop on it, that's mostly useless since it's much easier to install a snooping device that can live undetected for years than to cut a fiber in the hopes that some traffic goes over microwave links in range of US antennas over the course of a few days before the fiber's repaired. Besides, the NSA is chartered for domestic security, the CIA would have been the one to try to snoop on information overseas.
we should thank the israeli mosad or the cia?? maybe both! well thank u anyway......
thank u israel!!!! finely doing something about fucking time...
its all princ a hool van cock he orderd to cut the cabel so pls writ to the swidish people....
Bunch of jingoistic scat munchers here believing all the PNAC / Ziocon bullshit. Chumptards. Asshats.
OMFG. Iran is NOT completely without connectivity, it's just limited.
The cables lie in shallow water, and it's not at all uncommon for them to be damaged, it's just that more damage was done this time around.
Take your tinfoil hat off and go outside to see the big blue room with the orange fire light.
Fuck the Camel Fuckers and there access to the internet...
***** Fuck the Camel Fuckers and there access to the internet... *****
Why do racists always misspell basic words, and do things like confuse "there" and "their"?
Dude, you remind me of this guy: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-moran.htm
Mike Elgan
This is for The Third Time in for Three Several Years That Exactly At This Time Of The Year The Fibers Seems To Be Cut !!!!
But You Know What... I Don't Think This is Just an Accident, There is absolutely Something More To This Than Just a Cable Cut !!!! there is definitly a political reason for this ! if not there most be a monster underwaters that comes out every year and cuts the cables and then goes for a walk till the next year !!!!!! which one seems to be more logical !!!! well i think the monster !!!!
ok im Persian i wanna say this
most internet users in iran are
iranian people iran goverment can continue without internet access without computer everything here is paper Internet in iran is useless lol
there is no information technology
most internet users in iran are people that spending their time in internet for fun,spam,looking for girlfriend,playing game,.... iran takes no effect without internet access
there is no bussiness on internet in iran lol Sorry for bad english ;)
i forget something we just have
have OIL and Gas for 200year gas
and for 50 years Oil
and world need both of them dont forget that!
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