At least for Iran, all ISPs are upstreamed through the state (TIC, ITC, etc, see the map of AS12880 and related), they can just drop that one choke point and ev

At least for Iran, all ISPs are upstreamed through the state (TIC, ITC, etc, see the map of AS12880 and related), they can just drop that one choke point and everyone is offline. Ethiopia only has one AS/provider apparently: 24757 ETHIO-TELECOM