Hard to make it airtight without tanking the economy. Since the economy is already tanked, I guess they don’t care anymore.

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johncolanduoni 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Does the Iranian economy rely heavily on access to the global internet? They can’t trade with most of the world due to sanctions, so what in their internal economy grinds to a halt without global communications? I’m not saying I think that it wouldn’t, just that I don’t immediately grasp the mechanism.

	▲	namirez 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Good points! I’m not an expert, so I’ll wait for people who know more to weigh in. But as far as I know: (1) they still need to import basic necessities like food and medicine, and (2) despite heavy investment, they haven’t managed to build an intranet that’s fully isolated from the internet.