Iran loosens internet restrictions after protest shutdown
Internet access 'gradually being restored' as cyberspace official says the country will have full access in two days. Iran began restoring internet access in the capital and a number of provinces after a five-day nationwide shutdown meant to help stifle deadly protests over fuel-price hikes. The country's elite Revolutionary Guard security force said calm had now returned across Iran on Thursday.The internet is being gradually restored in the country," the semi-official news agency Fars reported, quoting unidentified. 'Horrific pattern': Amnesty says 106 killed in Iran protests The National Security Council that ordered the shutdown approved reactivating the internet in "some areas", it said. According to news reports, fixed-line internet was restored in Hormozgan, Kermanshah, Arak, Mashhad, Qom, Tabriz, Hamadan and Bushehr provinces, as well as parts of Tehran. "We again have internet as of an hour ago," a retired engineer, who decli...