IraniCard says close to 31 percent of Claude accounts it sold were blocked by 22 August 2026

IraniCard, which sells Iranian users access to international online services, published a statement on 8 September 2026 saying that close to 31 percent of the Anthropic Claude accounts it supplied were blocked in the two months from 22 June to 22 August 2026. It said Anthropic gave no reason for individual blocks, and that its own follow-up pointed to tighter scrutiny of geographic location and identity verification. IraniCard said it had disclosed the blocking risk in its user panel before purchase and by SMS afterwards, kept the service open because most accounts continued to work, and returned the full amount of every refund Claude approved. It also acknowledged a separate failure of its own: order volumes rose sharply in the month to 22 July 2026 and for the first time in the company's 15 years it moved its stated fulfilment window from one to five hours out to 24 hours, with some orders taking 72. It reported 61 percent of orders completed in under five hours in the month to 22 August 2026, rising to 83 percent by 8 September.