The people of Iran don't care what Hegseth, Trump or the Arab countries wanna call the Persian gulf. This terrorist regime is temporary, but the Persian gulf will forever be Persian and nobody's gonna change that!

Is it too much to ask? Please don’t make the same mistake as your predecessors 🤣. https://youtu.be/YlwXOHIXuw0

All* internet traffic between data centers and countries is routed over a protocol called BGP(Border Gateway Protocol). Each "hub" inside the global BGP-network is known as an Autonoumus System (AS), from each AS a number of IP-address blocks are announced to let the outside world understand where a particular IP-address resides in the global network; essentially saying: "These addresses live here, send their traffic to us. In practice, an AS is simply a network run by a single organization, an internet provider, a university, or a large company. Iran's internet architecture is designed with a "hub and spoke" pattern. Think of it as a wheel, the spokes are Iran's national internet service providers (ISPs), and the hub is the regime-controlled gateway. All the ISPs (the spokes) must route their traffic through that central hub to reach the outside world. There is no back door, no alternative route out. This was not an accident it was a deliberate architectural choice. If you control the traffic flow inside the hub, you can somewhat easily shut down and filter the internet. In practice, this means the regime can flip a switch and the entire country goes dark; not because thousands of individual networks were shut down one by one, but because one choke-point was closed. It is the digital equivalent of a country having only one international airport. Nerd stuff: *BGP is the dominant inter-domain routing protocol (between different AS/networks/countries), but traffic within a single network could use other internal routing protocols. Observe the connectivity table here: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as49666 You'll see a list of AS-numbers, the type of peering, country of origin, name and such. Type "Down" means this is a downstream i.e. AS49666 is the upstream transit provider between all peers considered as down, meaning if they want to communicate with any other AS they have to transit through either one of their upstream ASes.

1. How can the internet be “shut down” (in really tangible terms) and is there a way special forces or immortal guard can “turn it back on” somehow? 2. Why for the love of Goddess hasn’t someone, anyone broken the remaining political prisoners out immediately before they’re executed? They are hostages imo and rescuing them is top of mind to me, not just for the value of their lives, but because many were brave to face this regime in some way and we shouldn’t leave anyone behind. That energy belongs back in the revolution, although I would rather see them in trauma recovery living a soft life from now on. 3. What direct actions could we be taking from where we stand to contribute to this fight? Aside from staying informed and raising consciousness online, which both feel barely helpful (maybe I’m wrong). I come from a grassroots organizing background (feminist spaces), so I’ve done a lot remotely, but never for something quite this big. I want to fight these fucking bastards. I am pondering these myself and don’t know enough to produce answers I’m happy with yet. Do any of you have answers?