March 4 (Reuters) – A fireplace at Tehran’s major telecommunications constructing disrupted web providers on Friday, Iran’s communications ministry mentioned.

It mentioned the fireplace was brought on by a malfunction in an influence connection.

“A minor web outage that occurred at the moment in some areas of Tehran as a result of an influence outage led to a fireplace on the LCT heart, which was rapidly rectified and the backup system was rapidly changed,” ministry spokesman Mahdi Salem wrote on Twitter.

The ministry mentioned the close by metropolis of Karaj was additionally affected by the outage.

Iran has a few of the strictest controls on web entry on the earth, however its blocks on U.S.-based social media akin to Fb, Twitter and YouTube are routinely bypassed by tech-savvy Iranians utilizing digital non-public networks (VPNs).

A brand new invoice launched in parliament final month would additional prohibit authorities management over the web if permitted.

Writing by Dubai newsroom; Enhancing by Hugh Lawson

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