The internet restrictions, for their part, apparently aimed to temper shows of dissent and anger over the move and stop footage of the unrest from being shared. Brigadier General Salar Abnoosh, a deputy head of the Basij volunteer militia, said Friday that the internet outage had helped to “disrupt the complicated” plans by Iran’s enemies. On Saturday — day seven of the internet restrictions and the start of the working week in Iran — people in Tehran were trying to overcome problems brought on by the outage.
