Iran’s Wartime Internet Blackout Triggers Mass Layoffs, $2.6 Billion Losses and Economic Collapse

73 days: Length of Iran’s current internet shutdown, according to NetBlocks

$2.6 billion: Estimated economic losses from the blackout

1 million: Jobs Iranian officials say have already been lost

2 million: Additional indirect unemployment estimated by officials

3.5 million: Workers potentially affected by industrial contraction

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318,000: Record resumes reportedly submitted in a single day on an Iranian job platform

$80 million: Estimated daily losses to Iran’s digital economy during shutdown…