Unblock Al Jazeera from Iran

In Iran, a nationwide Al Jazeera ban is rare. What is more common is a block on the network you are actually using — a college campus, an office, a hostel, or an ISP that throttles video during peak hours.

Occasionally the picture is broader. During exams some states restrict streaming on education networks. Specific pages are sometimes taken down under local court orders. But the underlying site stays online — the restriction is a filter sitting between your device and Al Jazeera's servers.

Because that filter only inspects traffic on its own network, fetching the page through one of our servers outside it returns Al Jazeera exactly as it loads everywhere else. No app to install, no settings to change on your device.

On networks from MCI, Irancell, RighTel and Shatel, the block usually sits between your device and Al Jazeera at the ISP or workplace level — not at Al Jazeera's end.

Iran maintains one of the most aggressive internet filtering regimes in the world. Instagram, X, YouTube, Facebook, and most Western platforms are blocked outright at the national level; ChatGPT and Telegram face partial restrictions. During protests, the government has repeatedly throttled or fully blackout the internet for periods of days.

On Al Jazeera specifically: Iranian filtering combines DNS blocks, IP blocks, and DPI. Whitelisted "national internet" (SHOMA) is the goal of the state's network policy. The mechanics matter because Al Jazeera — as a news outlet — hits multiple layers of the filter at once: the domain shows on DNS blocklists, the destination IPs are known, and the TLS handshake is fingerprintable.

Language note: Users searching in فارسی looking for Al Jazeera access typically land on network-level workarounds first — DNS-over-HTTPS or a public DNS resolver. Those help against DNS-only blocks; they do not help against IP or DPI-level filtering. A web proxy handles all three layers because it moves the destination lookup off your network entirely.

Nothing on this page constitutes legal advice. If your workplace policy prohibits proxies specifically, that policy still applies; the fact that the tool is legal does not override an agreement you signed with an employer or a school.