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I believe telegram itself is blocked in Iran, though.

smnrchrds 6y ago
It is indeed. Iran does not shy away from blocking large swaths of the internet in order to make sure the parts they want blocked will remain blocked. For example, before 2009, there were specific blogs on wordpress.com which were blocked and making sure the content the government wanted inaccessible would remain inaccessible had turned into a whack-a-mole game. In 2009, they simply blocked the entirety of Wordpress, Facebook, YouTube, etc. and made their jobs much easier. Iran would not hesitate to block all AWS IP addresses as a solution (I don't know if that is how they block Telegram now). GCP resources would not load in Iran anyway because Google has a very strict (much more strict than AWS and Azure) interpretation of the sanctions, so they don't have to worry about them.
- eternalban 6y ago
  > It is indeed. Iran does not shy away from blocking large swaths of the internet > ran would not hesitate to block all AWS IP addresses as a solution DNS will not resolve any .ir (.coms that are iranian) domains here in US, afaikt.
  - whimsicalism 6y ago
    Not at all true. Try http://www.president.ir/en http://www.president.ir/en
    - eternalban 6y ago
      That does not resolve for me. Neither do any of the news sites. I even tried government ministries, such as en.mop.ir. simple$ ping president.ir/en ping: cannot resolve president.ir/en: Unknown host simple$ ping en.mop.ir ping: cannot resolve en.mop.ir: Unknown host simple$ ping tehrantimes.com ping: cannot resolve tehrantimes.com: Unknown host simple$ ping presstv.com ping: cannot resolve presstv.com: Unknown host
      - caf 6y ago
        That might be something your ISP is doing. Try dig www.president.ir @8.8.8.8
        eternalban 6y ago
        Thanks. That got me the ip but browser won’t connect to it. So it’s blocked at the ip level. (Why would an ISP do this? Mine is one of the majors. Curious.)
- sudosysgen 6y ago
  Telegram blocking in Iran is theoretical. There are still a great many Iranians successfully using Telegram (via proxies or modified versions of the app).

It is indeed. Iran does not shy away from blocking large swaths of the internet in order to make sure the parts they want blocked will remain blocked. For example, before 2009, there were specific blogs on wordpress.com which were blocked and making sure the content the government wanted inaccessible would remain inaccessible had turned into a whack-a-mole game. In 2009, they simply blocked the entirety of Wordpress, Facebook, YouTube, etc. and made their jobs much easier. Iran would not hesitate to block all AWS IP addresses as a solution (I don't know if that is how they block Telegram now). GCP resources would not load in Iran anyway because Google has a very strict (much more strict than AWS and Azure) interpretation of the sanctions, so they don't have to worry about them.

eternalban 6y ago
> It is indeed. Iran does not shy away from blocking large swaths of the internet > ran would not hesitate to block all AWS IP addresses as a solution DNS will not resolve any .ir (.coms that are iranian) domains here in US, afaikt.
- whimsicalism 6y ago
  Not at all true. Try http://www.president.ir/en http://www.president.ir/en
  - eternalban 6y ago
    That does not resolve for me. Neither do any of the news sites. I even tried government ministries, such as en.mop.ir. simple$ ping president.ir/en ping: cannot resolve president.ir/en: Unknown host simple$ ping en.mop.ir ping: cannot resolve en.mop.ir: Unknown host simple$ ping tehrantimes.com ping: cannot resolve tehrantimes.com: Unknown host simple$ ping presstv.com ping: cannot resolve presstv.com: Unknown host
    - caf 6y ago
      That might be something your ISP is doing. Try dig www.president.ir @8.8.8.8
      - eternalban 6y ago
        Thanks. That got me the ip but browser won’t connect to it. So it’s blocked at the ip level. (Why would an ISP do this? Mine is one of the majors. Curious.)
sudosysgen 6y ago
Telegram blocking in Iran is theoretical. There are still a great many Iranians successfully using Telegram (via proxies or modified versions of the app).