Is Claude blocked in Iran?
Yes — Claude is effectively unavailable in Iran: Anthropic does not serve Iran (vendor geo-restriction), on top of network filtering. The domain may still respond at a CDN edge — Voidly measures 60% raw network reachability — but that is not the same as the service working.
The situation
Claude is unavailable in Iran on two grounds: heavy state network filtering, and Anthropic not serving Iran (vendor geo-restriction / US sanctions). Both make it unavailable.
How to read this verdict
A CDN edge may answer from inside Iran, so raw reachability can be non-zero — but that is not Claude working. Anthropic does not serve Iran, so the honest verdict is unavailable; the raw number is shown only for transparency.
Voidly measures network reachability only — whether the service loads from inside the country. That is distinct from a provider declining sign-ups in a region (a policy layer we do not conflate with network blocking).
What people do about it
- Circumvention tooling to a supported region.
- Account/eligibility limits can persist independent of the network.
Related
Measured by Voidly's global probe network, cross-referenced with OONI, Censored Planet, and IODA. Network reachability only; verdicts update continuously. CC BY 4.0.