Admittedly, it's been a couple of months since I've been to Iran, so I just asked a friend in Mashad. He confirmed to me that my websites, running on a Kubernet

Admittedly, it's been a couple of months since I've been to Iran, so I just asked a friend in Mashad. He confirmed to me that my websites, running on a Kubernetes cluster on EC2 in the eu-west-1 are accessible without a VPN. Maybe your issue was due to use of GCP? I moved all my stuff to AWS specifically because Google Cloud does have this kind of block. I care about this a lot, so if your friends in Iran have different things to report, let's look into it to figure out what is going on.