Nik Kalyani - Freedom for Iran

As long as Iranians are facing the #DigitalBlackoutInIran I will post relentlessly about them and be their voice. They bleed on the streets or are locked in their homes — hungry, cold, tired, scared. Our friends. Our brothers. Our sisters. We owe them our unrelenting support 🇮🇷

⏱️ It's now the 66th consecutive day of #Iran's internet blackout with the censorship measure surpassing 1560 hours. Despite the distribution of some international access via pro-regime channels, metrics confirm that there is still no restoration of service to the general public.

🎓 The #Iran internet blackout has entered its 62nd consecutive day after 1464 hours, with the general public broadly cut off from the world. Beyond human rights and economic impacts, the measure severely hinders schooling and higher education by decimating access to knowledge.

You know, we’ve lived through something really strange. - Even though I’m still young, I’ve seen two wars, several uprisings that almost turned into a revolution, and we’re still in the middle of the latest one. • No modern human has really experienced this kind of lack of internet access and we have. - We’ve heard and seen bombs, missiles, people being killed, friends being executed. - I don’t even know how to describe it. • But I’m not saying this to complain, I actually want to say I’m grateful for this lived experience. Yeah, you heard that right. - Sometimes I break, sure but we’re human, and we’re built to survive. - It taught me real patience. - If you’re reading this and even a little hopeless, just know patience fixes things, even when it feels like everything is over right now.

🗓️ Exactly two months ago on 28 February, #Iran was thrown into digital darkness as authorities cut off access to the global internet. Metrics show the blackout is now entering its 60th day after 1416 hours despite regime efforts to introduce tiered access for privileged groups.

⏰ The internet blackout in #Iran is now on its 58th consecutive day, continuing in its ninth week past the 1368 hour mark. The ongoing measure remains in effect, impeding independent reporting and documentation nationwide

📵 The #Iran internet blackout is now in its 53rd day after 1248 hours of disconnection from global networks. As authorities work to develop tiered access for select users and businesses, the human impacts and economic harms of this digital censorship measure continue to spiral.

🗓️ #Iran has now been isolated from the global internet for seven weeks with the digital blackout entering its 50th day after 1176 hours. Metrics show the measure, unprecedented for a connected society, continues to the detriment of most Iranians' livelihoods and human rights.

⚠️ Update: The internet blackout in #Iran is now in its 42nd day after 984 hours. While the general public are restricted to the local National Information Network, chosen users are whitelisted by the regime to deliver alternative narratives to the outside world via social media.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its 40th day after 936 hours of near-total disconnection from the outside world. The wartime censorship measure continues even as the US and Iran regimes each declare victory, with the Iranian people once again left in the dark.

Imagine a free Iran: No more nuclear threats; No more terrorism; No more hostage taking; No more closing of the Strait of Hormuz; No more blackmailing of the global economy. Prince Reza Pahlavi, CPAC 2026, Texas

As an Iranian who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to wholeheartedly confirm what President Trump just said: "The Iranian people want to be free. They have lived in a world that you know NOTHING about." For 47 years, my people have endured systematic torture, rape, murder, humiliation, anxiety, suppression, and grief under the Islamic Republic. It’s been a long, grinding suffering — punctuated by brutal spikes like the January protests, mass executions, and now war. The world has no idea of the scale or depth of these horrors. Only when this evil regime finally falls will the full truth pour out — in quality and quantity that will shock humanity. We have now reached a point where almost no cost is too great if it rids us of this regime. Because the cost of it staying in power is infinitely higher. If you’re reading this and you can’t understand how any Iranian could feel relief at their own country losing a war and getting bombed… I envy you. You have never lived what we have lived. You have never watched your people, friends, family, and loved ones get tortured, raped, or killed almost daily and over half a century. You have never seen an entire nation slowly but brutally suffocated like this. We tried every alternative imaginable: massive protests, dissent, peaceful reform, negotiations — everything. None of it worked. The regime’s answer has always been bullets, gallows, and more terror. Now, less than 24 hours before Trump’s deadline, I write this with a heavy heart from inside Iran: Whatever happens next — if there is still an Iran left to save and this regime is gone — the Iranian people will be happy with the result. No matter the cost. Because the cost of the regime remaining is higher, and for many of us, death itself is preferable to another day under this nightmare. This is the true sentiment of the majority of Iranians — the voice of a people who often have no internet, no platform, and no way to be heard. The world will soon understand why we say: Anything to be free. Anything to end this evil. #IranMassacre‌ #IranRevolution2026‌

I am bleeding my pockets dry paying astronomical prices for a half broken internet connection just to read what the outside world is saying. And let me be honest, it is absolutely infuriating to see how completely disconnected so many of you are from the actual mood of the people inside Iran. Do not lose your nerve. Do not be afraid. The narrative you are seeing right now is a complete illusion. The voices currently being amplified online are fake, manipulated, and engineered by the cyber army of this cannibalistic regime. They have locked us in a digital prison and severed our connection to the world specifically so they can control the narrative and project a false sense of fear and submission. We are not cowering in the dark. We are watching a dying terrorist syndicate thrash in its final days. Do not judge the resolve of the Iranian people based on the fabricated noise of our captors. Wait until these walls come down. Wait until this internet blackout is broken and you can finally hear the unfiltered, undeniable roar of a nation that has been stripped to the bone. You will see exactly what an unstoppable force looks like. Hold the line. Level the playing field and we will finish the job.

⚠️ Update: The internet blackout in #Iran is entering its 38th day with the general public now cut off from international networks for over 888 hours. The measure leaves Iranians without access to independent sources of information relating to the war or global news events.

🗓️ Exactly five weeks ago on Saturday 28 February, #Iran cut off access to the global internet. The measure remains in place, entering day 36 after 840 hours, isolating the general public as authorities explore ways to give chosen users access via a tiered whitelisting system.

Iran’s collapsing regime went crazy today, launching 69 rockets & drones in hours. UAE Air Force took them all out. No matter what they throw at us we’ll never submit to terrorism or bow down ! 😎

⚠️ Update: The internet blackout in #Iran is now on its 35th consecutive day as connectivity flatlines at 1% of ordinary levels after 816 hours. The general public remain cut off from the world without vital updates and without a voice as the incident closes its fifth week.

GM 🌞 It is an absolute honour and another career highlight to be a part of the 30 artists revealing work at the Formosa opening ""I should say today marks day 29 of the WAR and the internet blackout here, and I’m only here after forcing my way through a ton of VPN connections still not fully back though."" - Proud to say "Contents: Classified" is collected by the great @Punk8868 ! These piece is very special to me and I hope they bring you something meaningful Viva Formosa! @Casa_NUA and @HugoFaz & @punk6529 About the piece: • This hand is the stifled voice of a generation that, instead of tasting life, was melted down in the boiling cauldron of a collapsed economy and repressive policies. - This trembling hand, emerging from a pool of blood, is not a plea for help; it is a testament to a crime. - It is the hand of thousands of youths whose dreams were crushed by the gears of a totalitarian system and processed into cans of "patience and endurance." • As the people's tables grow emptier by the day, this canister symbolizes a bloated belly fed by the lifeblood of this land's rightful inhabitants. - It portrays a painful paradox: a system that, to ensure its own survival, packages and consumes the very flesh and bone of those to whom the house belongs. - This is the autopsy of a catastrophe. The opened can can no longer conceal the truth. - The liquid flowing within is not tomato soup; it is the essence of a nation that refuses to be the fuel for a tyrant’s survival. This image marks the end of "enforced silence."

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now entered day 30 as the nationwide censorship measure continues into its fifth week after 696 hours. Metrics show that connectivity to the outside world remains at just 1% of ordinary levels.

I AM ALIVE !! Missed you all so much !! We don't have internet here, I'm well and working on my ART non stop 💖🔥 As I always say I am the utility behind my artworks ❤️‍🔥

Wow .. #Dubai