{"id":10734,"date":"2009-12-05T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-05T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T16:12:00","slug":"internet-down-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/10734-internet-down-in-iran.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet down in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources close to Iran&#8217;s technical services told AFP the cut was the result of &#8220;a decision by the authorities&#8221; rather than a technical breakdown, but telecommunications ministry officials were unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Internet lines, texting and at times even mobile phone connections have often been cut or scrambled since Ahmadinejad&#8217;s contested re-election in June, but this was the first such occurrence a full two days before planned protests.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian opposition groups are preparing to hold fresh demonstrations on Monday, several websites reported, as the nation marks the annual Students Day.<\/p>\n<p>The elite Revolutionary Guards and other authorities have warned they will crack down on any attempt by regime opponents to hijack the event to mount further protests against Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran on December 7 marks the 1953 killing by the shah&#8217;s security forces of three students, just months after a US-backed coup toppled popular prime minister Mohammad Mossadeq.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Iranian capital&#039;s Internet links with the outside world were down on Saturday, two days ahead of planned demonstrations by opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}