Iran: still online, despite media reports

Reports of Iran being disconnected from the Internet may be grossly exaggerated, says the blog of  Renesys, one of the most reliable providers of intelligence about the global Internet connectivity: :

What can we say for sure? Not much, except that Iran remains well-connected to the Internet from a routing perspective. If I had to guess, I'd say that there are probably a lot more people around the world pulling local content from Iran's providers right now, and that surge of demand is probably contributing to increased congestion and (perhaps) some of the route instability we see. It wouldn't be unusual for there to be some inbound cyber-mischief as well, from supporters of one or the other side, but so far we only have rumors on that front.

Remember: slow Internet is not always the result of government actions; often, it's simply a reflection of how popular the content in question is!