Iran experienced a nationwide internet blackout on Saturday following military strikes by Israel and the U.S. across the country, as reported by a global internet monitoring organization.

Within hours of the strikes — which officials stated targeted infrastructure and resulted in the deaths of dozens of high-ranking regime officials at a Tehran compound — Alp Toker, the CEO, confirmed that internet connectivity had begun to “flatline.”

“We are monitoring the ongoing blackout, but our analysis indicates this aligns directly with Iran’s wartime playbook and is consistent both technically and strategically with what we observed during the 2025 Twelve-Day War with Israel,” Toker told Digital.

“Iran’s internet connectivity is currently flatlining at approximately the 1% mark, so the initial blackout imposed by the regime earlier that morning has been solidified,” he confirmed.

“The blackout was implemented just after 7:00 UTC, shortly after the attack on the Iranian regime’s compound,” Toker clarified, adding that Iran had been mostly offline for roughly 12 hours following the strike.

“At 06:10 UTC, the main strike on the compound occurred; at 07:10 UTC, telecommunications disruptions began; by 08:00 UTC, the blackout was largely in effect; and by 08:30 UTC, connectivity flatlined.”

“National wartime blackouts are extremely rare globally, and this is something we’ve only truly witnessed at such a scale in Iran,” he said.

Following the attack (dubbed [unidentified name]), the President stated on Truth Social that the “heavy and pinpoint” bombings in Iran “will continue uninterrupted throughout the week or as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!”

He claimed Iranian security forces and members of the regime’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were already seeking immunity, urging them to “peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots.”

“We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces no longer want to fight and are looking for Immunity from us,” Trump said in the post. “As I said last night, ‘Now they can have Immunity; later they only get Death!’”

Toker argued the timing of the blackout suggested it was imposed deliberately as the regime sought to secure communications amid fears of further targeting.

“The Iranian regime will have deployed this new blackout to counter potential cyberattacks during their own military operation, but also to avoid leaking the locations of senior regime figures through metadata and user-generated content,” he said.

“Communications would have been limited, and Iran’s leadership would have proceeded with the assumption that all communications, including satellite or whitelisted networks, carry risks,” he said before claiming that “paranoia would be well grounded at this point, with the blackout a belated but direct response to that.”

“Those participating directly would already know to avoid technology that could betray their whereabouts,” Toker said.

“However, the metadata may well have played a part in determining that the meeting of regime leaders was being held at the Tehran compound, who was in attendance, and at what time.”

Toker revealed that the broader network around the regime leaders and around the compound wouldn’t have had the same strict restrictions.

“This kind of adjacent ‘background noise’ can be correlated against other intelligence sources to build an understanding of activity on the ground,” he added.

[Unidentified phrase], an almost ‘free’ source of intelligence, and even when locked down, they eventually connect to international online services and generate insights that can be used to pinpoint regime figures,” Toker said.

“In the aftermath of Saturday’s strike, this concern will have been high on the remaining Iranian leadership’s minds, especially if they didn’t have a clear and specific understanding of how the meeting was compromised.”

Iran has previously imposed sweeping internet shutdowns during periods of domestic unrest, including [unidentified incident] in January (which saw thousands killed), often seeking to curb the spread of information and restrict coordination.