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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait

US lawmakers call on Donald Trump to restore internet access in Iran

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Donald Trump speaks to the press at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on 13 January 2026. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on Donald Trump to allow the US government to help open up internet access in Iran, which the country’s Islamic regime has blocked in an effort to suppress an eruption of unrest.

With deaths soaring into thousands after days of protests across Iran, Democrats and Republicans from the House of Representatives have written to Trump asking him to authorize the state department to collaborate with the Open Technology Fund, a congressionally funded non-profit dedicated to supporting technologies designed to overcome censorship.

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