2020s internet outages

The 2025–2026 Iranian protests are a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp depreciation of the Iranian rial, rising inflation, and widespread shortages linked to international sanctions and government mismanagement. This event has been the largest uprising in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, spreading to more than 200 cities across the country. The ensuing crackdown, reportedly carried out under orders by Ali Khamenei and senior officials to use live fire on protesters, resulted in massacres that left thousands of protesters dead, making them the largest massacres in modern Iranian history.

outage of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus in October 2021

attack on Ukrainian government and websites

internet outage in Iran

protests outside of Iran against the Iranian regime

disruption of two submarine telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea in November 2024

week-long total internet blackout ordered by Supreme National Security Council