Iran finally restores internet after nearly 90 days offline

Iranians isolated by a long internet shutdown imposed by the authorities during the war with the U.S. and Israel expressed joy as social media came back to life in a country where even in normal times access to the outside world remains restricted via censorship of many websites.

“I’ve never been so happy in my life to see Telegram notifications,” Kian Galvani, an engineering student, wrote on his account on