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Iran is losing<\/a> an estimated $1.56 million every hour because of its state-imposed internet blackout, draining its struggling economy and disrupting life for more than 90 million people, according to an internet privacy analyst.<\/p>\n

The prolonged disruptions originated amid spiraling protests<\/a> through January with losses he claimed were continuing even after partial connectivity was restored.<\/p>\n

“The current blackout is costing Iran an estimated $37.4 million per day, or $1.56 million every hour,” Simon Migliano, head of research at PrivacyCo<\/a>, told Fox News Digital. “The full internet blackout itself cost Iran more than $780 million, and the subsequent strict filtering continues to have a significant additional economic impact.”<\/p>\n

“Iran has already drained $215 million from its economy in 2025 by disrupting internet access,” the internet privacy and security analyst added.<\/p>\n

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Migliano said his estimates were calculated using the NetBlocks COST tool<\/a>, an economic model that measures the immediate impact on a nation\u2019s gross domestic product when its digital economy is forced offline.<\/p>\n

The model assesses direct losses to productivity, online transactions and remote work, drawing on data from the World Bank, the International Telecommunication Union, Eurostat and the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n

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Iranian authorities abruptly cut off communications<\/a> on the night of Jan. 8 amid widespread protests against the clerical regime.<\/p>\n

While officials later restored much of the country\u2019s domestic bandwidth, as well as local and international phone calls and SMS messaging, the population is largely unable to freely access the internet because of heavy state filtering<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The recent 579% surge in VPN demand reflects a scramble for digital survival,” Migliano said before describing how even when access is briefly restored, the internet remains “heavily censored and effectively unusable without circumvention tools such as VPNs.”<\/p>\n

“We can see spikes showing that as soon as connectivity returned, users immediately sought VPNs to reach sites and services outside the state-controlled network, including global platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram that remain otherwise inaccessible,” he added.<\/p>\n

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“Sustained demand \u2014 averaging 427% above normal levels \u2014 indicates Iranians are stockpiling circumvention tools in anticipation of further blackouts,” Migliano said.<\/p>\n

“The usual strategy is to download as many free tools as possible and cycle between them. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game, as the government blocks individual VPN servers and providers rotate IP addresses to stay ahead of the censors,” he added.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s minister of information and communications technology, Sattar Hashemi, acknowledged the economic toll caused by the blackout tactics.<\/p>\n

He said recent outages were inflicting roughly “5,000 billion rials” a day in losses to the digital economy and nearly 50 trillion rials on the wider economy, according to Iran International<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Iran\u2019s three-week internet blackout may have been lifted, but connectivity remains severely disrupted still,” Migliano claimed.<\/p>\n

“Access is still heavily filtered. It is restricted to a government-approved \u2018whitelist\u2019 of sites and apps and the connection itself remains highly unstable throughout the day,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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