# Censorship detected in IR

**Country:** 🇮🇷 Iran (IR)
**Date:** 2026-08-22
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements: 16
- Anomaly Rate: 100.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 39/39 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 37/37 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 39/39 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 31/39 measurements anomalous (79.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 82%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 38/41 measurements anomalous (92.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 42/45 measurements anomalous (93.3%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 40/43 measurements anomalous (93.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 87%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 31/42 measurements anomalous (73.8%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 80%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 40/40 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 39/40 measurements anomalous (97.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 40/41 measurements anomalous (97.6%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 30/41 measurements anomalous (73.2%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 79%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 32/33 measurements anomalous (97.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=signal&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 27/28 measurements anomalous (96.4%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 32/33 measurements anomalous (97.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=telegram&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI facebook_messenger: 24/33 measurements anomalous (72.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-08-22
  - Confidence: 79%
  - [OONI Explorer (independently verifiable)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=IR&test_name=facebook_messenger&since=2026-08-22&until=2026-08-23&only=anomalies)

## 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). Censorship detected in IR [IR-2026-2388]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/IR-2026-2388

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-08-23*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: IR-2026-2388*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/IR-2026-2388*