{"id":1829,"date":"2026-10-29T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:20:10","slug":"putin-the-only-thing-the-iranian-authorities-did-in-december-was-to-cut-off-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/putin-the-only-thing-the-iranian-authorities-did-in-december-was-to-cut-off-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin: The only thing the Iranian authorities did in December was to cut off the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday, November 6, in a rare comment about the protests in Iran last January, claimed that these protests started from social networks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian news agency Interfax, during a visit to an exhibition in Moscow, Putin said: &#8220;What happened when the crisis spread on the streets of Tehran, largely started through social networks; Networks that the Iranian authorities neither managed nor controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the only thing Iranian officials could do was &#8220;cut everything off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin called the complete shutdown of the Internet during these protests an exercise of &#8220;sovereignty&#8221; and then added: &#8220;I am not saying that it was necessary to shut down the networks; There was no such necessity. &#8220;Those who were successful used the networks to create conditions for people to come to the streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday, November 6, in a rare comment about the protests in Iran last January, claimed that these protests started from social networks. According to the Russian news agency Interfax, during a visit to an exhibition in Moscow, Putin said: &#8220;What happened when the crisis spread on the streets of Tehran, largely started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran"],"amp_enabled":true,"x_categories":"Iran","x_tags":"","x_featured_media":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/tg_AgACAgUAAy-6.jpg","x_featured_media_medium":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/tg_AgACAgUAAy-6.jpg","x_featured_media_large":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/tg_AgACAgUAAy-6.jpg","x_featured_media_original":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/tg_AgACAgUAAy-6.jpg","x_date":"10\/29\/2026","x_author":"Rezaei","x_gravatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8c61747d104c911c99a4f1b01be691b6cd39100217a3d0020b68509bb16a8c9f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","x_metadata":{"rank_math_internal_links_processed":"1","_thumbnail_id":"1828","_encloseme":"1","post_views_count":"31"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}