Comment by bigyabai
6 hours ago
It absolutely could be one of the motives, I'm not a member of the IRGC so I couldn't tell you for certain.
I do know that the IDF and CENTCOM have been censoring in-theater OSINT for decades, and we also know that Iran has the incentives to do the same thing with a larger population. Lacking the CIA and Mossad's censorship tools, a total shutdown is not really that unexpected.
No. What all of those dates had in common wasn't the USA or Israel, it was protests by the Iranian population.
Yes, blackout to prevent OSINT is a thing. That's not why they were doing them in 2019, 2022, and 2024 and it's not why they're doing it now (seeing as it started before the war). They're doing it to suppress their population because they fear an uprising.