Businesses Struggling With Restrictions on Internet

The internet in Iran has been restricted for more than a week, which condition, according to some monitoring websites, has been unprecedented in the modern history of the country’s communications. 
At present, different platforms on the internet are tied to the lives of ordinary people and hence a huge cost is being imposed on the economy and small businesses, although the disruption is based on security grounds. 
Statistics show that the share of online trade increased from 1.3% of Iran’s total trade in the fiscal 2017-18 to 5% in 2021-22. This is far below the global average (more than 20%), yet we need to bear in mind that it has happened under sanctions and various restrictions, the Persian daily Etemad reported.