January 17, 2026
Joe Lauria
Joe Lauria
Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald
Trump to urge him to hold off on bombing Iran because, reports say, Israel
feels vulnerable to Iran’s counterattack, writes Joe Lauria.
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Iran’s Khamenei says US, Israel links behind ‘thousands killed’ in protests
January 17, 2026
The country’s supreme leader says
foreign-backed protests ‘caused massive damage and killed several thousands’.
Iran’s latest internet blackout extends to phones and Starlink
January16, 2026
The Iranian regime’s internet shutdown, initiated on Jan. 8, 2026, has severely diminished the flow of information out of the country. Without internet access, little news about the national protests that flared between Dec. 30, 2025, and Jan. 13, 2026, and the regime’s violent crackdown has reached the world. Many digital rights and internet monitoring groups have assessed the current shutdown to be the most sophisticated and most severe in Iran’s history.
We are a social scientist and two computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Internet Intelligence Lab who study internet connectivity.
The Iranian regime’s internet shutdown, initiated on Jan. 8, 2026, has severely diminished the flow of information out of the country. Without internet access, little news about the national protests that flared between Dec. 30, 2025, and Jan. 13, 2026, and the regime’s violent crackdown has reached the world. Many digital rights and internet monitoring groups have assessed the current shutdown to be the most sophisticated and most severe in Iran’s history.
We are a social scientist and two computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Internet Intelligence Lab who study internet connectivity.
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