Call me suspicious, but...
...how did five million Iranians delete their Yahoo! mail accounts without access to Yahoo!?
Yahoo! has reinstated its free webmail services in Iran, less than a year after the firm blocked new registrations from the country citing tighter US sanctions. Iran has also reappeared in the registration country list of Microsoft's Hotmail service. Last November we reported how both had blocked new webmail and instant …
"how did five million Iranians delete their Yahoo! mail accounts without access to Yahoo!?"
Probably through a proxy server.
A better questions is why they want it back, particularly after the supposed slight against them, and when the (superior) Google Mail never went away.
People are funny sometimes...