Iranians are largely cut off from global communications after their Internet went down, the London-based NetBlocks organisation that monitors cybersecurity said.

“Metrics show Iran has now been offline for over 12 hours as authorities impose a nation-scale Internet shutdown,” the non-profit organisation posted on X early on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Netblocks posted that live network data showed Iran is in the midst of a near-total national Internet blackout. The blackout followed a series of earlier partial disruptions and came amid escalating tensions with Israel after days of back-and-forth missile strikes. The Malaysian Reserve