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Iran internet update for Hosting Providers and Users | June 2025
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If your hosting company:
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…please share your services , offers and recommendations below this post. Many users in Iran are currently seeking testable servers due to widespread IP blocking and packet loss. Your input is highly appreciated and could make a real difference.
🌐 Current Internet Situation in Iran – July 2025 Overview
Starting June 13th, following military escalations between Israel and Iran, the Iranian government activated its national firewall. This effectively disconnected the country from the global internet, leaving users with access only to domestic services (intranet).
Here’s a summary of what’s happened:
HTTPS traffic to foreign websites was entirely blocked. HTTP sites worked extremely slowly.
All major censorship-resistant VPN/proxy protocols (e.g., VLESS, VMess, Shadowsocks, Hysteria) became non-functional, especially over transports like ws, httpupgrade, reality, and xhttp.
Cloudflare IPs were blocked extensively, causing even Iranian websites hosted behind Cloudflare to go offline.
Fastly CDN, however, remained fully accessible—even over HTTPS. This may be due to its infrastructure and limited WebSocket support.
Despite these restrictions, users found ways to stay connected:
By combining a local Iranian server with a foreign VPS and tunneling via tunnels like backhaul, rathaul, or SSH-reverse-tunnel stable VPN connections were possible.
SSH protocol has remained open and usable from the beginning.
Tor network is not directly accessible, though some success was seen using bridges (obfs4, Snowflake).
From 14 June cloudflare IP blockade got a little better and Iranian websites on cloudflare and some foreign websites got unblocked , some of them are: tgju.org , nobitex.ir and chatgpt.org
⚙️ Technical Recommendations:
If you're deploying a proxy behind a CDN:
Use xHTTP transport (doesn’t require WebSocket).
Enable only ALPN: h3.
Stick to ports 443 or 80.
Use Fragment in clients (if you know what it is)
If your deploying tunnels:
Avoid heavy traffic on Iranian servers to prevent them from becoming "Iran-access" (accessible only inside Iran).
📶 Filtering by ISP:
Most aggressive filtering: Hamrah Aval (MCI)
Least affected network: Irancell (MTN)
Note: some IPs may be blocked on an ISP and not on the other
Currently, the only high-speed, direct-working protocol on MCI is SSH.
•For SSH proxy panel deployment, consider tools like Hiddify or Shahan.
•For other vpn protocols use panels like 3x-ui , tx-ui , s-ui , marzban , marzneshin , remnawave ...
Comments
I just don't understand why firstly you all don't use the Iran VPS + tunnel to foreign server method. That's kinda the most effective way for a while. My friends over at Iran are telling me that situation seems stable this way (abeit them having some issues with some routes, but that's besides the method, but the whole network congestion), even right now with this war situation.
Indeed this is a good solution, but internet traffic is not unlimited here and it's not cheap as well, also after this happened providers are increasing the price of traffic
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I guess you mean June, not July.
Re. your request (?) I think that (a) now is a very bad time to connect to western countries. Maybe it'll work but you'll risk to be considered a traitor, and (b) very public discussions about how to break through the "national firewall" in order to connect to western countries isn't the smartest thing to do because, I assume, the security services of any country under attack will diligently look at all relevant media and sites.
Let me end jokingly (well, kind of): I guess, cia and mossad will be more than happy to help you; maybe they even already have set up such net services. But, warning, the price to pay may be very, very unpleasant and in the worst case a bullet into the head.
Everybody 301 redirects 80 to 443.
And the Iranian Ministry of Censorship should buy a lifetime GFW license from China and be done with it. But those goat lovers don't happen to have enough domestic tech to supplant any of the western web services. Solution: go back to pre-industrial times and pretend internet doesn't exist. The Cubans are happy about it.
They really think the intelligence agencies don't read this and don't know what to do.
In general, all this fuss looks like the moans of the Iranian opposition, which, on the contrary, wants to take its interest in this situation with the help of the west.
Thanks for your clarifying, yeah I edited to June 😅
And nope if they want to block something they will if it's not blocked then it's free to use , as I said right now most websites on cloudflare are blocked (even lowendtalk) and deploying a proxy/vpn for personal use is not crime in Iran.
And about about getting help from cia or mossad I'm pretty sure they already did this.
As I mentioned this problem was fixed on the second day but trust me it was so weird, I don't actually remember what did it said when getting timeout but every foreign website I tried got this except websites on fastly
I assume they already know about this , most of these information are from from Iranian vpn insiders, so how should they know and gov don't?
I think they just don't care about it so I'm gonna let the others know
Are these blockades usually on discretion of the ISPs? In italy a number of Russian websites are blocked by ISPs to pretend the government hasn't issued a mandate.
Blockade in Iran is done by tic.ir firewall, all other ISPs in Iran are just a downstream of this so there's firewall that will apply to all ISPs by tci.ir and there's ISPs firewall as well. they might block some IPs or protocols that are not blocked on the other one
Like right now telegram proxys are blocked by Hamrah Aval (MCI) but Irancell(MTN) Didn't blocked them
Once upon a time, European countries advocated the freedom of information. But now, they are implementing practices from dictatorial regimes. It seems that many European countries have changed from democracy to dictatorship, without notice from Europeans.
Can we find a way to get politics out of here and instead focus on the censorship bypassing?
@DP
The only thing that cannot be understood is that if Iran has completely closed access to foreign internet as they told, how they manage to write and reply here on a foreign forum. Logically one thing does not fit with the other.
I literally mentioned, ssh worked from first! The firewall got better the second day, fastly works pretty well, and I'm using vpn myself to be here
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LightNode is very unreliable in terms of latency to Iran, they switch routes too often
If it's from Amazonaws it's good (yet direct Trojan doesn't work in Iran right now) if it's lightnode I'd be better with Germany
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Your VPN is very likely already blocked in Iran. But sure, you have a free trial, maybe worth the try
I don't think so because our VPN nodes are regularly changing every day. Please update me here.
I did, and you know what? Forget about Oman , your UAE servers are the only one that works right now and it has a good ping and speed (on MCI)
It's not the nodes, it doesn't have anything dealing with ip address, the protocols are blocked not IPs! I can icmp ping your servers but they won't connect, how ever UAE works fine
Thank you for informing me. We also added the UK node, which has a response time below 90S to Iran.
I hope our support helps you access freedom.
Thanks but I have 2 things to say and 1 thing to ask.
1: your vpn sub domain is on cloudflare which as I mentioned is blocked itself.
2: you're using TCP as transport which is more likely to be blocked (I don't know about UAE maybe Iran firewall is not restricted on UAE)
3: can I promot your free trial on Iranian communities? (this may make massive abuse on your services or more frequent ip blocked of your service by firewall)
They block IPs if you find a working method, and they detect it, has been like this for ages. That's why using an Iranian VPS is more effective (they're more linient on those and don't really block that often), since then, why wouldn't you just use your regular net if the upstream is exactly the same ISP?
Cause I don't want to pay twice for traffic? And if I do what's the catch of detecting firewall behavior 🙂
I'm not trying to sell you anything
Just the sad reality, if you don't want to go that route, good luck I guess.
No , sorry if I said badly, I know you don't want to sell me anything, I just don't like domestic tunnels , it doesn't have anything dealing with you , it's just I don't like it. Sorry for misunderstanding