Iran's president orders the internet restored after an 87-day blackout

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the internet in Iran restored on May 25. The order ended an 87-day blackout imposed in the wake of the war that had started three months earlier. The shutdown had been part of the wartime controls described in reporting on censorship during the conflict.

The restoration was a presidential order, not a claim that every network was instantly back to its old state. It was the first clear political instruction of the week to reverse the blackout. The timing overlapped with mediation trips to Beijing and Doha.

International Atomic Energy Agency director Rafael Grossi said on May 29 that Kazakhstan was open to taking custody of Iran's enriched uranium if a deal was reached on the nuclear program. That statement was about a possible destination for material, not a completed transfer. It belonged to the same diplomatic week as the communications order.

The blackout's length, 87 days, was the figure attached to the shutdown that Pezeshkian moved to end. The war itself was described as having begun three months earlier. Together those details fixed the shutdown as a wartime measure rather than a routine outage.

No separate consumer tally was published with the restoration order. The news was the instruction to bring the network back and the count of days it had been down. Later talks about the nuclear file continued whether or not every user was online that hour.

Grossi's comment on Kazakhstan and Pezeshkian's order were different instruments, one diplomatic and one domestic. Both were on the record in the same week of ceasefire contacts. Neither one, by itself, reopened the Strait of Hormuz or ended the war.