Is there a reasonable workaround for this?

Starlink or any other sort of satellite internet, but these are relatively easy to jam and detect. There are ways to minimize that but obviously not available to civilians.

The issue is, if you control the Network DMZ, it's extremely difficult to bypass. In Xinjiang and Tibet (which has a similar setup) they used to use smuggled Kazakh, Nepali, and Indian SIM cards but that was cracked down.

A lot of the info from inside Iran that is not regime connected is coming from areas in Iranian Kurdistan where an Iraqi SIM could be smuggled or accessed somewhat easier than other areas.

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gambutin 9 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s interesting. Could they somehow do peer-to-peer anonymously until the packages reach the border?

	▲	alephnerd 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		P2P is only as safe as it's nodes. Iran has around 1 million IRGC, Army, and Foreign Shia Militia deployed in a country of around 90 million. Mind you that organization has been severely degraded, but that only scares civilians even more as functionaries are much more trigger happy (rape [0], summary execution [1], torture [2] are already the norm). That makes covert P2P much harder. [0] - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/iran-security... [1] - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/iran-authorit... [2] - https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/0673/2026/en/