Access YouTube in Iran without a VPN. Free web proxy, no install, works on any device.
Why YouTube is blocked in Iran
In Iran, a nationwide YouTube ban is ongoing — usually enforced at the ISP level, and sometimes at the deep-packet-inspection layer. 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 YouTube's servers.
Because that filter only inspects traffic on its own network, fetching the page through one of our servers outside it returns YouTube 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 YouTube at the ISP or workplace level — not at YouTube's end.
How to unblock from Iran
A phone on mobile data, a college PC, a managed browser — anything that runs Chrome, Safari, or Firefox works from Iran.
Frankfurt is closest for most Iran networks. Switch if your ISP filters the first hop.
YouTube loads in this tab, fetched from outside your network. Use as normal.
Context — Iran's filtering
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 YouTube 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 YouTube — as a video — 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 YouTube 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.
By ISP
Whichever ISP you are on in Iran, the network sees only an encrypted connection to AnyProxy. The destination — YouTube — never appears in your ISP's traffic logs, only ours.
Deep dive · YouTube in Iran specifically
YouTube has been blocked in Iran since December 2009, initially in response to protest footage circulated after the 2009 presidential election. The block was formalised under the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology and has been continuous for over 15 years — one of the longest-running national video-platform blocks in the world. Iranian users routinely reach YouTube via proxies and VPNs; the Iranian regulator IRIB has periodically discussed unblocking but no policy change has materialised.
Iranian ISPs enforce the block via DNS poisoning on youtube.com and Google's video CDN domains, IP blocking on Google's global YouTube edge IPs, and DPI-based TLS SNI inspection that drops connections whose SNI matches youtube.com or googlevideo.com. Consumer VPN protocols get fingerprinted at the DPI layer within days of a new provider entering Iranian market. Web proxies over HTTPS to non-blocked domains reach YouTube via the proxy region normally because the SNI in the client's TLS is the proxy domain, not youtube.com.
Open anyproxy.site in any browser, paste youtube.com or a full YouTube video URL, pick Frankfurt region (closest to Iran at ~110 ms), press Open. YouTube loads inside the same tab. 720p on the free tier plays reliably; 1080p on Pro is the choice for HD-heavy watching. Live streams work. Sign-in to a Google account is safe on the real YouTube page after the proxy loads it — expect a "new location" security email since the login originates from Germany.
Legal in Iran?
Users are responsible for compliance with local law. AnyProxy operates as an ordinary web service and makes no political claims.
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.
Pro in Iran
Free tier stays free. Pro ($4.99/month) unlocks HD on YouTube plus all six regions and no ads, billed in your local currency where supported.
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