Iran's Internet Email Access Is Back

TEHRAN, Iran -- Many Iranian web users say their access to foreign email services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail appears to have been restored after a four day outage.

Elaheh Ansari and Reza Estiar are among dozens of Internet users who told The Associated Press that their access was back on Monday.

The semiofficial Mehr agency had said that more than 30 million people in the country were affected by the outage.

Authorities in Iran's national telecommunications company declined to comment, saying the outage had no connection to them.

Iran has occasionally restricted the Internet since the turmoil that followed the 2009 presidential elections and blocked websites including Facebook, Twitter, Voice of America and the BBC Farsi service.

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Comments

[bellmotor]

12:54 AM on 02/14/2012

well may be the outage did have an effect after all and or must have been somebody's elsework and I am sure the internet access it's only for short time standing.

[Solomon420]

06:04 PM on 02/13/2012

the beauty of free speech , I will feel so good to know they have The bomb .

im sure all the iranians will march "gladly" in the streets celebrating their achivment but would definetly wouldnt be able to do anything ,even Text message each other .

I mean , really
would you trust the regime that shuts down and control its citizens communication ?

[Daniel Alman]

05:21 PM on 02/13/2012

So they use american products yet somehow hates america at the same time?

[ca va pas non]

10:02 PM on 02/13/2012

he is a more Israeli than American

[Galilee]

05:06 PM on 02/13/2012

Probably the work of Saudi hackers.
Why would Iran restrict freedom of speech, or the freedom to email?

[czs5056]

07:19 PM on 02/13/2012

maybe to prevent people from email "it sucks here"

[ca va pas non]

10:03 PM on 02/13/2012

Have you been there ?

[Galilee]

03:45 AM on 02/14/2012

It's pretty obvious "it sucks" there, well, except for the people here who support the Iranian regime.