Pronóstico: Total Internet Blackout in Iran by 2026?

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Market context

Iran has already shown a willingness to push connectivity to near-zero when it faces major unrest or security pressure, which is the key reason this market cannot be treated like a routine censorship question. In November 2019, authorities imposed a nationwide shutdown that lasted about a week, and during the 2025-26 unrest and war-related escalation, global connectivity was again driven down to roughly 1% or below on monitor data for long stretches.[1][6][10][15]

The bigger framing point is that the country has repeatedly moved from partial restrictions to full or near-full cut-offs when protests or conflict intensify. A January 2026 blackout reportedly began on 8 January and was described as one of the longest and most complete ever recorded in Iran, while later 2026 coverage said the wartime shutdown that followed the February escalation kept traffic near 1% of pre-war levels and then became the longest nationwide disruption on record.[2][10][13][16]

For traders, the main catalysts are not football-style line-up changes but state decisions: protest cycles, conflict escalation, and any order to mobile operators or ISPs to disconnect. Cloudflare Radar is the relevant settlement feed here, so the key watchpoint is whether bytes transferred fall to 1.0% or less of the recent four-week maximum for six straight hours; that threshold was already close to being met in recent shutdowns, meaning a fresh nationwide security clampdown would be the clearest route to a Yes.[11][12][17]

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