At her studio in Iran’s capital, Amen Khademi prepared a fashion shoot for a jacket she designed with Persian-inspired motifs. But even as she applied lipstick to the model, she was distracted, worrying if her business would survive after four months without its main link to customers — the internet. Iran’s 90 million people have been cut off from the internet for most of 2026 , one of the world’s longest and strictest national shutdowns. That is devastating an online economy that had long