# Tor not working in Iran
**URL:** https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144
**Category:** Censorship Circumvention
**Tags:** anti-censorship, tor
**Created:** [January 27, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144 "2026-01-27T01:45:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@halfdeafjeff](https://forum.torproject.org/u/halfdeafjeff)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/1 "2026-01-27T01:45:07Z")
Any tips on how to connect Tor because it’s heavily blocked here ( non of bridges working for me )
and i heard it’s not safe to use VPN for connecting to Tor
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### Author:  [@BobbyB](https://forum.torproject.org/u/BobbyB)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2026, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/2 "2026-01-27T06:22:44Z")
Snowflake proxy. Right now 2026/01/27 04:25:35 UTC there are about 5 connected to mine.
Just a follow-up.
During that 24 period above, there were 2002 connections from IR.
Unfortunately about 30% open and close within 30 seconds which means effectively the sessions failed.
There are many more which fail to make a connection.
`Timed out waiting for client to open data channel`
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### Author:  [@Bartleby](https://forum.torproject.org/u/Bartleby)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/3 "2026-01-27T12:21:39Z")
I have a lot of connections these days from Iran to my obfs4 bridges. They seen to work correctly without issues. For example, for Turkmenistan is always the same, they work for a few days until authorities block my IPs.
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### Author:  [@gus](https://forum.torproject.org/u/gus)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/4 "2026-01-29T12:32:10Z")
Since yesterday (Jan 28), the censorship is back to the “normal” level. Please try Snowflake:
### AMP Cache
```auto
snowflake 192.0.2.5:80 2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72 fingerprint=2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72 url=https://snowflake-broker.torproject.net/ ampcache=https://cdn.ampproject.org/ front=www.google.com ice=stun:stun.antisip.com:3478,stun:stun.epygi.com:3478,stun:stun.uls.co.za:3478,stun:stun.voipgate.com:3478,stun:stun.mixvoip.com:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:3478,stun:stun.bethesda.net:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:443 utls-imitate=hellorandomizedalpn
snowflake 192.0.2.6:80 8838024498816A039FCBBAB14E6F40A0843051FA fingerprint=8838024498816A039FCBBAB14E6F40A0843051FA url=https://snowflake-broker.torproject.net/ ampcache=https://cdn.ampproject.org/ front=www.google.com ice=stun:stun.antisip.com:3478,stun:stun.epygi.com:3478,stun:stun.uls.co.za:3478,stun:stun.voipgate.com:3478,stun:stun.mixvoip.com:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:3478,stun:stun.bethesda.net:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:443 utls-imitate=hellorandomizedalpn
```
### Netlify
```auto
snowflake 192.0.2.3:80 2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72 fingerprint=2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72 url=https://voluble-torrone-fc39bf.netlify.app/ fronts=vuejs.org ice=stun:stun.antisip.com:3478,stun:stun.epygi.com:3478,stun:stun.uls.co.za:3478,stun:stun.voipgate.com:3478,stun:stun.mixvoip.com:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:3478,stun:stun.bethesda.net:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:443 utls-imitate=hellorandomizedalpn
snowflake 192.0.2.4:80 8838024498816A039FCBBAB14E6F40A0843051FA fingerprint=8838024498816A039FCBBAB14E6F40A0843051FA url=https://voluble-torrone-fc39bf.netlify.app/ fronts=vuejs.org ice=stun:stun.antisip.com:3478,stun:stun.epygi.com:3478,stun:stun.uls.co.za:3478,stun:stun.voipgate.com:3478,stun:stun.mixvoip.com:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:3478,stun:stun.bethesda.net:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:443 utls-imitate=hellorandomizedalpn
```
### SQS
```auto
snowflake 192.0.2.5:80 2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72 fingerprint=2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72 sqsqueue=https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/893902434899/snowflake-broker sqscreds=eyJhd3MtYWNjZXNzLWtleS1pZCI6IkFLSUE1QUlGNFdKSlhTN1lIRUczIiwiYXdzLXNlY3JldC1rZXkiOiI3U0RNc0pBNHM1RitXZWJ1L3pMOHZrMFFXV0lsa1c2Y1dOZlVsQ0tRIn0= ice=stun:stun.antisip.com:3478,stun:stun.epygi.com:3478,stun:stun.uls.co.za:3478,stun:stun.voipgate.com:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:3478,stun:stun.bethesda.net:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:443 utls-imitate=hellorandomizedalpn
snowflake 192.0.2.6:80 8838024498816A039FCBBAB14E6F40A0843051FA fingerprint=8838024498816A039FCBBAB14E6F40A0843051FA sqsqueue=https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/893902434899/snowflake-broker sqscreds=eyJhd3MtYWNjZXNzLWtleS1pZCI6IkFLSUE1QUlGNFdKSlhTN1lIRUczIiwiYXdzLXNlY3JldC1rZXkiOiI3U0RNc0pBNHM1RitXZWJ1L3pMOHZrMFFXV0lsa1c2Y1dOZlVsQ0tRIn0= ice=stun:stun.antisip.com:3478,stun:stun.epygi.com:3478,stun:stun.uls.co.za:3478,stun:stun.voipgate.com:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:3478,stun:stun.bethesda.net:3478,stun:stun.nextcloud.com:443 utls-imitate=hellorandomizedalpn
```
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### Author:  [@hopelesslyhopeful](https://forum.torproject.org/u/hopelesslyhopeful)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/5 "2026-02-02T13:40:30Z")
Non works!
There’s no connection method that works in iran (direct, obfs4, snowflake, webtunnel, meek).
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### Author:  [@BobbyB](https://forum.torproject.org/u/BobbyB)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/6 "2026-02-02T14:47:46Z")
I’m still getting some connections from IR on my Snowflake.
Examining a 24-hour period ending 2026/02/02 13:48:14 UTC, I get about 558 connections. 30% under 1 minute. The rest from 1 minute+ to 2h30+. Traffic by KB is low.
But lots of connections `Timed out waiting for client to open data channel`
Still working on a way to count those.
**Edited later:** I meant working on a way to ID the country, not count them. I can obviously count them.
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### Author:  [@hopelesslyhopeful](https://forum.torproject.org/u/hopelesslyhopeful)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/7 "2026-02-03T11:38:55Z")
Thank you.
Bear in mind that Internet blockage is not uniform in their methods.
Spoofing SNI apparently helps (at least for me). This [app](https://github.com/Gedsh/InviZible) supports it.
Here’s some urls that works in iran.
```auto
google.com scholar.google.com shaparak.ir news.google.com varzesh3.com soft98.ir telewebion.com digikala.com mail.google.com support.google.com email.google.com supermario.corp.google.com aharvesal.ir search.google.com tamin.ir actualities.google.com site.google.com sheets.google.com iranmatlab.ir mizanonline.ir divar.ir
```
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### Author:  [@gus](https://forum.torproject.org/u/gus)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/8 "2026-02-03T20:31:18Z")
Which Tor bridge with SNI spoofing worked for you?
Snowflake? Webtunnel? Meek or ?
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### Author:  [@hopelesslyhopeful](https://forum.torproject.org/u/hopelesslyhopeful)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/9 "2026-02-04T12:05:46Z")
The snowflakes you have provided above. Thank you.
(Here’s a [link](https://voidr3aper-anon.github.io/Void-Blog/network%20monitoring/Psiphon-The-Last-Bastion/#phase-two-active-ghosting) to newly article published by psiphon group explaining ghe severity and methods of blockage)
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### Author:  [@BobbyB](https://forum.torproject.org/u/BobbyB)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/10 "2026-02-04T17:17:55Z")
**Phase Two: Active Ghosting** **Stage Three:** In those initial seconds of connection, the firewall blocks your connection and filters the endpoint
This also seems to work with Snowflake. About 30% for 30 seconds. 36% if I raise the bar to 1 minute
Would be nice to know how. I’m guessing pure UDP to UDP traffic.
**edited later** :
I analyzed the 2hr+ connections and found (in my logs) that they all seem to go through `AS: AS749 United States Department of Defense (DoD`)
then 198.18.0.0/15 which is `SPECIAL-IPV4-BENCHMARK-TESTING-IANA-RESERVED` then give their Iran IP.
Does this mean anything to anyone?
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### Author:  [@hopelesslyhopeful](https://forum.torproject.org/u/hopelesslyhopeful)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/11 "2026-02-15T12:47:04Z")
Even this no longer works on all ISPs now.
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### Author:  [@gus](https://forum.torproject.org/u/gus)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/12 "2026-04-20T20:54:04Z")
dnstt seems to work (yes, it is very slow): [Connecting to Tor from Iran using dnstt with Orbot - #2 by haidi](https://forum.torproject.org/t/connecting-to-tor-from-iran-using-dnstt-with-orbot/21485/2)
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### Author:  [@BobbyB](https://forum.torproject.org/u/BobbyB)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/13 "2026-05-27T00:11:16Z")
Seems like Iran has reopened its internet access. I see it in my Snowflake proxy stats. It’s at max capacity which I specified. Haven’t seen that in a long time.
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### Author:  [@gus](https://forum.torproject.org/u/gus)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-not-working-in-iran/21144/14 "2026-06-15T12:10:04Z")
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