Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening

Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Word of the opening of Iran’s blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the same sites today chewed over the sobering reality that the four-year-old firewalls were back in place. Iran’s Internet overseers blamed a “technical” glitch on the brief window to the Web.