How to beat Iran’s internet kill switch

Since Feb. 28, 2026, the Islamic Republic has flipped the kill switch, keeping 92 million Iranians at roughly 1% connectivity—the longest nationwide shutdown ever recorded. - Len Khodorkovsky

The question for the West is whether we will help them hear the signal or let the regime kill it...
But purpose-built tools persist. 

• Psiphon and Conduit allow diaspora activists to share their laptop connections with users inside Iran—roughly 400,000 used Psiphon to pull people through. 
• FreeGate, built on a peer-to-peer proxy network, leaves no trace.
• Obfuscation protocols like V2Ray and Shadowsocks hide traffic by making it look like standard web browsing. 
• Direct Tor connections are blocked, but bridges with pluggable transports open during the brief windows when international routes flicker back on...