THE REGIME HAS LAUNCHED RETALIATION: 3,000 PEOPLE KILLED IN IRAN, ARRESTS OF PROTESTERS BEGIN, AND THE INTERNET IS BEING SHUT DOWN PERMANENTLY!

More than 3,000 people have been killed in protests across Iran, the U.S.-based human rights group HRANA announced, while only a negligible increase in internet activity has been recorded in the country following an eight-day shutdown.

HRANA said it had confirmed 3,090 deaths, including 2,885 protesters, while residents and state media indicate that security measures have for now largely crushed the protests and that arrests are continuing, Reuters reported.

According to accounts from several residents contacted by Reuters, Tehran has been relatively calm for the past four days.

Although drones have been spotted over the city, there were no signs of major protests on Thursday and Friday.

Residents in other parts of the country, including northern Iran along the Caspian Sea coast, also reported calm streets.

The protests erupted on December 28 over economic hardship and later evolved into mass demonstrations demanding an end to clerical rule, culminating in violence late last week.

Opposition groups and one Iranian official had previously said that more than 2,000 people were killed in what was described as the worst internal unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Internet monitoring group NetBlocks said that after about 200 hours of disruption, a “very slight increase” in connectivity was observed, which remained at around two percent of normal levels.

Some Iranians abroad said they were briefly able to make contact with people inside Iran early Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Iranian authorities had canceled planned mass executions of protesters, although Iran has not officially announced either such executions or their cancellation.

Indian students and pilgrims returning from Iran said they were largely confined to their accommodations during their stay and unable to communicate with their families.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs said commercial flights remain available and that it is taking steps to ensure the safety of its citizens, Tanjug reported.

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Iran Plans to Permanently Restrict Internet Access

Iran plans to permanently restrict access to the internet, allowing connectivity only to individuals vetted by the regime, Iranian digital rights activists said.

According to a report by the organization Filterwatch, unrestricted internet access is expected to become a “government privilege,” while most Iranians will only have access to the national internet, a parallel system cut off from the broader global network, The Guardian reported.

The national internet allows access to domestic services such as search engines, messaging apps, and streaming platforms, but remains isolated from the global web.

The current shutdown of global internet access in Iran began on January 8 during mass protests.

A government spokesperson said international internet access could be cut off until the Persian New Year on March 20.

According to researchers, the technological systems enabling control and filtering have been implemented with the help of Chinese technology and are capable of monitoring, blocking, or manipulating internet traffic across the country.

A former U.S. State Department official said the possibility of Iran being permanently severed from the global internet is “likely and frightening,” with serious economic and cultural consequences.