Mobile internet access curbed in several Iranian provinces, a day before new protests following calls for demonstrations on social media for those killed in unrest last month- reports
An informed source at the Communications and Information Technology Ministry reportedly said that mobile internet access to overseas sites was blocked by"security authorities" in Alborz, Kurdestan and Zanjan provinces.
Iran's authorities have restricted mobile internet access in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday, a day before new protests were expected to kick off following calls for demonstrations on social media. State media, meanwhile, said intelligence ministry agents had seized a cache of 126 mostly US-made guns smuggled to the central city of Isfahan from abroad.
An official denied any order by the authorities to block the internet, which was shutdown for about a week in the November unrest.The semi-official news agency ILNA quoted an informed source at the Communications and Information Technology Ministry as saying mobile internet access to overseas sites was blocked by "security authorities" in Alborz, Kurdestan and Zanjan provinces in central and western Iran and Fars in the south.
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