They do. We usually have about 3-10 days of clean air in Tehran per year.
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this_dudeagain3 days ago
Damn I knew they burned off a lot of excess gas but geez. They don't have the newer tech to trap it and use it.
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hakenwithbacon3 days ago
+4
The gas fields are nowhere close to Tehran. How small do you think Iran is?
The pollution in Tehran is from city traffic and industries. It also has mountains to the north that traps air. Mexico City has a similar problem
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UseBackground23703 days ago
+2
It's also just the fact that Tehran is way too crowded. The actual residents are about 10 million, but we get 13-15 million people on the weekdays during work hours. Many people from neighboring towns come to Tehran to do what we call "mosafer keshi" which literally translates to "transfer travellers" or otherwise known as taxi's. They'd either work for the Iranian equivalent Uber companies or as on the street taxis (you can just hail a cab in the middle of the streets and many times the cab isn't a yellow or green taxi, it's literally just some random person - dangerous and not even cheaper, but if you're in a hurry, a good way to get around).
It's so crowded.
Most cars are also old or c**** (or both) because people can't afford better cars and the cars that are manufactured in Iran are awful as well. Also, people can't afford good quality gas so they get the cheapest.
Not to mention building so many underground missile cities and nuclear reactors near Tehran and cutting down trees to build coin mining factories...
They've literally ruined the ecosystem. Ask any Iranian and they'll tell you: during the war, we had the best and cleanest weather ever.
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UdderSuckage4 days ago
+71
So basically threaten to cut the cables unless the owners pay a fee? It's not like they have the technology to tap them, and they don't control the landing stations in other countries.
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UseBackground23703 days ago
+25
People in Iran haven't had internet for 71 days straight now since February 28th, 2026. The islamic republic also shut down the internet from January 8, 2026 to about early February. Basically, Iranians have had about 2-3 weeks of internet access in 2026.
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UdderSuckage2 days ago
+2
That's interesting but not really relevant to my point - Iran can absolutely control their own internal data flows, but without the ability to control foreign data cables they can either cut them completely or do nothing.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+1
Not Iran, but the islamic republic, don't have the technology to be able to do that.
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UdderSuckage2 days ago
+1
Neither have the ability to splice or tap undersea cables, so it's a distinction without a difference to me.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+2
The difference is Iranians don't want anything to do with the islamic republic. They don't represent us. They're not our government. They're our hostage takers and murdereres. Even their flag is not representative of Iran because it literally is in another language (Arabic, which is not our language). They are literally occupying Iran right now, so yes, the distinction does matter.
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Imbendo2 days ago
+2
Is the Islamic republic made up of Iranian citizens or men from other countries?
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+2
Many of them are in fact not iranian born. Larijani was the second most powerful person after Khamenei and he was born in Iraq. Many of them go back to Iraq and live there for years.
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daays4 days ago
+23
These f****** guys…
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UseBackground23703 days ago
+31
Iranian woman here: I genuinely hope they (the IRGC) do something here. I want them to seriously stop just saying words and ACTUALLY cut off one of these cables. Maybe this way the world is finally going to do something about the Islamic Republic. Otherwise, nobody is going to understand what we say when we say these monsters are the biggest threat to the world.
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da_realfredfred3 days ago
+1
Are you just using starlink or something then?
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UseBackground23703 days ago
+13
Not Many people can afford Starlink. The minimum wage is $87 USD per month. One Starlink dish costs $500 for the dish itself, never mind the price of smuggling one in. Not to mention it is literally illegal and people have been killed by the IRGC for owning Starlink (google what happened to Mr Hessam Aladdin, a 40 year old man who was literally beaten to death at his home by the IRGC for the crime of having Starlink internet).
As for others, again, many people can't afford it but you can buy VPNs that work or proxies and specific configurations, but you pay per Gb of data...and it's about 7,000,000 rials to 10,000,000 rials (or 700k tomans to 1 million tomans). For reference, the minimum wage is about 18-20 million tomans. This is also illegal, but the only way.
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OptiPath3 days ago
-17
What? Someone owns a Starlink and he was beaten to death? Is this serious? I never believed when they said Iran killed 40000 protesters. Maybe it has some truth in it
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lurkANDorganize3 days ago
+18
Some truth to it?
You need to grow up. Iran is a horrible government of psychopaths. They have killed so many of their own.
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daftmonkey4 days ago
+8
I wish there was a way I could bet against this becoming a thing
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OPUno3 days ago
+5
Iran already cut off Internet to the population, US allies can get Starlink and the big loser is India. So.
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-12
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Available_Finger_5134 days ago
+48
Sorry to tell you bud, but it basically is all connected by a bunch of fiber optic tubes with magical internet light flowing through them
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softlittlepaws4 days ago
+12
That's not even remotely true. Even just a cursory amount of research would have told you the internet is powered by well trained [ferret data carriers](https://tenor.com/en-AU/view/ferrets-ferret-ball-tubes-infinite-hole-tunnel-gif-23147409).
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-14
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Fast-Satisfaction4824 days ago
+25
Volume is the salient term for the amount of data traffic.
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Unhappy_Victory_65214 days ago
+14
Reminds me of people who think the internet is in the sky and data doesn’t have a physical existence
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Holiday-Energy12484 days ago
+4
It's all lasers in a cloud they say.
Seriously though, volume of the internet is just a phrase for amount of data measured in bytes.
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donkeybrainamerican4 days ago
+4
My time learning IT infrastructure. It's incredibly complicated, but actually not at all. Just expensive. 😂
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Fast-Satisfaction4824 days ago
+1
I mean unless it's literally your personal responsibility to procure the physical link, just thinking about it as an abstract thing that you pay money for is a reasonable model to operate on.
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donkeybrainamerican4 days ago
+1
Oh for sure. I don't expect the average person to know. Same as you said about "volume" being a reasonable term (totally is when summarizing for lay people). People in the know shouldn't be so weird about folks who have no reason to know not knowing, and those people with no education in the topic ought not to make assertions about how things work and in what way. But ya know that shits never gonna happen.
May power surges never happen to your switches my friend.... Cause that shit sucks, and you have to come in at weird hours to tell everybody there's not shit you can do about it and then folks will still be mad but it's like "literally what am I supposed to do here I requested a UPS for this whole rack and y'all said it's too expensive and the building has protection on the outlet".
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Monowakari4 days ago
+11
Volume of bits and bytes, and photons are indeed the "fluid" (energy/photon packet count). It *is* basically a literal undersea oil pipeline in the strait but the physical medium is light and the deliverable is Iran's memes about Trump to my phone
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skip-all4 days ago
-1
Trump will add another level and place the cables under control under his control
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nsfwuseraccnt4 days ago
-9
This has as much effect as me saying I'm placing those cables under my control. Just saying it doesn't do anything. I'd say what I think the USA should do, but you get banned for discussing war strategy on this site so I won't.
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this_dudeagain4 days ago
+8
Well you got me curious
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EVpeace4 days ago
+5
You can't threaten to damage the cables. It's just more leverage.
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