{"id":80966,"date":"2026-05-12T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/80966\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:27:00","slug":"global-protests-denounce-iran-internet-blackout-as-activists-back-reza-pahlavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/80966\/","title":{"rendered":"Global protests denounce Iran internet blackout as activists back Reza Pahlavi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activists protested across the globe to denounce Iran’s ongoing internet blackout<\/a>, which has lasted at least 70 days as of Sunday.<\/p>\n

The anti-regime protests<\/a> were held as vigils and marches across cities worldwide.<\/p>\n

At protests, activists waved pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flags, often used by protesters denouncing the regime.<\/p>\n

Activists also held banners praising Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi<\/a>, including calling him “King of Iran,” according to footage taken at the scenes.<\/p>\n

Several, but not all, protests also included the flying of Israeli flags, according to footage seen by\u00a0The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n

One such rally was held opposite the White House in Washington.<\/p>\n

Other protest locations included Auckland and Dunedin, New Zealand; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Bangkok, Thailand; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; Dublin, Ireland; London, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Newcastle, United Kingdom; Stockholm, Sweden; Oslo, Norway; and Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark.<\/p>\n

Protests were also held in Berlin, Hanover, Hamburg, and Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Bologna, Italy; Paris, France; Amsterdam and The Hague in the Netherlands; Prague, the Czech Republic; and Barcelona, Spain, among other cities.<\/p>\n

Other protests are expected across major US and Canadian cities on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Pahlavi commented that while the large majority of Iranians were unable to connect with the outside world, the Islamic regime has carried out mass arrests and stepped up the rate of its executions.<\/p>\n

Iran has regularly used Internet shutdowns as a means of control, restricting access in Kurdish provinces following the killing of Mahsa Amini and outbreak of the Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022, and in response to the January protests, which broke out in response to the country\u2019s dire financial crisis.<\/p>\n

Danielle Greyman-Kennard contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Activists protested across the globe to denounce Iran’s ongoing internet blackout, which has lasted at least 70 days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[225,3030,3034,27,26,234,190,3180,2271,3041,159,3160,200,7998,157,3619,3794,2334,3049,132,3140,294,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-80966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-czech-republic","11":"tag-danmark","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-internet","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-italy","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-netherlands","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-norway","23":"tag-protests","24":"tag-reza-pahlavi","25":"tag-south-korea","26":"tag-spain","27":"tag-sweden","28":"tag-thailand","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116563492534550454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}