> The blocks against WhatsApp also appear to have impacted people outside of Iran. People using Iranian +98 telephone numbers have complained that WhatsApp has

> The blocks against WhatsApp also appear to have impacted people outside of Iran. People using Iranian +98 telephone numbers have complained that WhatsApp has been slow to work or not functioning at all. WhatsApp has denied it is doing anything to block Iranian phone numbers. I doubt that Zuck would help the Iranian govt, which would suggest technical reason or an attack, which makes me curious. It's likely that +98 numbers outside Iran are connected to those inside that are blocked, but could that cause some bottleneck in whatsapp infra? Or could the Iranian govt be running some ddos style attack on certain phone numbers over whatsapp?