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  "name": "Hassan Rouhani",
  "office": null,
  "role": "President of Iran",
  "country": "IR",
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      "slug": "2019-iran-nationwide-internet-shutdown",
      "title": "Iran: near-total internet shutdown during fuel-price protests",
      "occurred_on": "2019-11-16",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "IR",
      "country_name": "Iran",
      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "IR",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "shutdowns_and_blocking",
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        "shutdowns_and_blocking"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "hassan-rouhani",
      "leader_name": "Hassan Rouhani",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Not stated in the sources reviewed.",
      "outcome": "reversed",
      "outcome_on": "2019-11-23",
      "outcome_note": "Internet connectivity was restored after roughly a week, according to the source reviewed, though the underlying criminal cases against arrested journalists continued.",
      "stage": "silence",
      "ladder_note": "Iran cut internet connectivity to about five percent of normal nationwide for nearly a week and arrested a journalist for reporting on the shutdown itself; no United States action in the record has cut off nationwide communications.",
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 177,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2010s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Iran cut internet connectivity to about five percent of normal levels nationwide for nearly a week during protests over fuel prices, while arresting at least eleven journalists, including one detained for reporting on the shutdown itself.",
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    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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