We are having reports of man-in-the-middle attacks on gmail on some ISP's. However, main focus of goverment is not spying on people and decrypting stuff, but to censor opposition websites.

Now, this is much more simple to do. They use l7 to drop https connections. Some of us who are lucky to have a vps and the simple knowledge of ssh stuff are able to use simple ssh tunnels.

However, the days in which we had protest, they simply dropped all encrypted connections, which included ssh tunnels.

I hope that little information gives you a little insight about whats going on here.