Iran's monthslong internet shutdown is crushing businesses in an already battered economy

Fashion designer Amen Khademi takes a photo with her cellphone of model Farnaz Ojaghloo wearing a jacket she designed with Persian-inspired motifs at her studio in Tehran, Iran. But even as she applied lipstick to the model, she was distracted, worrying if her business would survive after four months without its main link to customers—the internet. Iran's 90 million people have been cut off from the internet for most of 2026, one of the world's longest and strictest national shutdowns.

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