The Most Terrifying Shutdown. How Russia Helps Kill Protesters in Iran

At the end of last year, protests erupted in Iran: first demanding economic reforms, and later calling for regime change. The state responded with violence on an unprecedented scale — to date, tens of thousands of people have reportedly been killed by Iranian security forces. At the same time, the harshest shutdown in the country’s history was imposed, completely isolating the Iranian segment of the internet from the global web. As it turned out, the Khamenei regime was assisted by Russian authorities, who exported to Iran the same censorship technologies used in the Russian internet.