# Sustained censorship in IR (2022-08)

**Country:** 🇮🇷 Iran (IR)
**Date:** 2022-08-12
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 6 days of elevated network interference averaging 94.0% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 75%
- Measurements: 6
- Anomaly Rate: 94.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-23
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-23&until=2022-08-23)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-22
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-22&until=2022-08-22)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-21
  - Confidence: 77%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-21&until=2022-08-21)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-20
  - Confidence: 78%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-20&until=2022-08-20)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-19
  - Confidence: 78%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-19&until=2022-08-19)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-18
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-18&until=2022-08-18)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-17
  - Confidence: 81%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-17&until=2022-08-17)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-16
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-16&until=2022-08-16)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-15
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-15&until=2022-08-15)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-14
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-14&until=2022-08-14)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-13
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-13&until=2022-08-13)
- **OONI** (measurement): Pre-protest restrictions
  - Observed: 2022-08-12
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&since=2022-08-12&until=2022-08-12)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Which networks** — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- **The mechanism** — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

## Data Sources

ooni

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in IR (2022-08) [IR-2022-0003]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/IR-2022-0003

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-06-21*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: IR-2022-0003*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/IR-2022-0003*