Internet Pro

Iran's Supreme National Security Council restored Internet Pro on 28 April 2026 (Day 60 of the conflict), ending a partial connectivity blackout that had been in force since the war's opening hours. The service provides tiered commercial and academic internet access at restricted speeds and under enhanced surveillance, as distinct from the near-total blackout applied to residential and mobile users.

Internet Pro was first introduced as a controlled-access internet tier for vetted business and research users, allowing limited foreign connectivity while preserving the SNSC's ability to throttle or suspend the broader national network. Iran already operates one of the world's most extensive domestic internet control regimes, centred on the National Information Network (NIN), which provides a filtered intranet of approved domestic content. Internet Pro sits above the NIN in the access hierarchy but below unrestricted international internet.

The Day 60 restoration signals that the economic cost of sustained commercial internet disruption — affecting banking, trade finance, and university research — had become a priority concern for the Iranian government, even as broader wartime censorship and monitoring remained in place.