About Javid Network Watch
Why this dashboard exists, who built it, and how you can use the data.
“When a government shuts down the internet, the first casualty is the truth. Journalists lose their sources. Researchers lose their data. The world loses sight of what is happening on the ground. And the people inside that country lose their voice.”
Why this dashboard exists
I built Javid Network Watch because I watched this happen to Iran over and over again, and every time, the same problem repeated itself. Information about the shutdown was scattered across dozens of sources, each measuring something different, each updating at different intervals, each requiring technical knowledge to interpret. By the time a journalist pieced together what was actually going on, the moment had passed.
it provides a consolidated, real-time picture of internet freedom in Iran. No more cross-referencing five different monitoring tools. No more guessing whether a platform is blocked or simply slow. The data is sourced from IODA, OONI, RIPE Atlas, Tor Metrics, and dozens of direct HTTP and TCP checks across Iranian infrastructure. Every data point is timestamped, categorised, and presented in plain language. Whether you are writing a breaking news piece during a blackout or producing a long-form investigation into patterns of censorship, the information you need is here, updated and ready.
it serves as both a reference platform and a call to action. The disruption pattern analysis reveals when shutdowns tend to happen, by hour of day and day of week, exposing the deliberate, scheduled nature of regime censorship. The incident timeline provides a structured record for human rights documentation. The methodology and data sources are fully documented, enabling researchers to replicate this approach for monitoring internet freedom in other countries facing similar repression.
it is proof. Proof that the blackouts are real, that they are documented, and that the world is watching.
The person behind it
I am Iman Samizadeh. I hold a PhD in Computational Intelligence and have spent nearly two decades working across AI, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure. My life’s work is keeping Iranians connected.
This dashboard is the latest in a line of tools I have built over more than a decade. Every time the Islamic Republic found a new way to cut people off from the free world, I rolled up my sleeves and built something to reconnect them.
GranGorz was the first. Back in 2013, I wrote a free anti-censorship tool that gave journalists and activists a way to bypass internet filtering and browse anonymously.
Then came Dezh, a VPN built from the ground up with proprietary protocols and an Android app, designed not for commercial privacy marketing but as a crisis communication tool. When standard VPNs get blocked by deep packet inspection, you need something the filters have never seen before. Dezh was that something.
After that came Taftan, named after the mountain on the border. A system that transmits data over sound waves and QR codes. Because when they shut down the entire internet, you still need a way to pass information from one phone to another, even without a network. No servers. No connectivity. Just two devices and the air between them.
For the past year, I have been leading LionSunLab, a volunteer technical collective of 30 to 50 engineers, building a 27-project phased roadmap for securing and rebuilding Iran’s digital infrastructure during and after transition. Sovereign DNS, secure communications, mesh networking, cyber defence, digital identity. The things no policy document can deliver without engineers on the ground who know how to make them real.
JavidNet is a blueprint for a decentralised, people-managed internet. Hidden satellite terminals as exit nodes, mesh relays across the internal network, no single point of failure. When they pull the plug on the country, five Starlink terminals and a group of volunteers can keep thousands of people talking to the outside world.
Javid Steganography hides messages inside ordinary photographs, and unlike traditional methods, it survives the compression that WhatsApp, Telegram and X apply to every image you send. You share a photo of your lunch. Inside it, there is a Persian-language message no one can see unless they have the key.
Javid Mask protects the identity of Starlink users inside Iran, blocking identity correlation across over 131,000 Iranian domains and 763 IP ranges, deployed automatically on a Raspberry Pi.
Javid No-Code Uncensored LLMs puts AI into the hands of people who have been cut off from every cloud service. No internet required. No coding. A single command on a Raspberry Pi, a laptop, or even a phone, and you have an uncensored language model that speaks Farsi and answers questions no filtered service ever will.
Javid Network Watch is the dashboard you are reading right now. 82 independent data sources aggregated into a single real-time view of internet freedom in Iran. Censorship events, outages, messenger blocking, ISP-level disruptions, connectivity across cities, and circumvention tool demand. Updated every five minutes. In Farsi and English. Free and open to everyone.
JavidGorz returned in April 2026, a ground-up recreation of the 2013 original I first wrote for journalists and activists. A free anti-censorship client for everyday users in Iran: a secure route to the open internet, a strict no-logs policy, and zero telemetry, analytics, or crash reporting. No accounts, no registration, no way to link your identity to your usage. The application does exactly what it says and nothing more. Available at javidgorz.com.
How you can use this data
If you are a covering Iran, use this dashboard as your primary reference for the state of internet freedom. Cite the data. Link to the incident records. Use the pattern analysis to give your reporting the context it deserves.
If you are a study the methodology, examine the data sources, and consider how this model could be adapted for other countries where internet shutdowns are used as a tool of repression.
If you are an working on digital rights, internet freedom, or human rights documentation, this data is yours to use. No restrictions. No paywall. No registration.