Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, said on Monday that around one hundred Starlink internet terminals are live in operation in Iran. In September, as Iranian authorities imposed more severe access restrictions in what activists dubbed an effort to suppress information about demonstrations that had broken out throughout the country, the billionaire vowed to deliver the satellite internet network to the country.
On Monday, Musk tweeted, “Approaching 100 Starlinks active in Iran.” Starlink’s network of almost 2,000 small satellites, which orbit only a few hundred kilometers above Earth, makes high-speed internet available to people on the ground. Afterward, the terrestrial terminals are connected to simple routers, which generate teeny-tiny hotspots of wireless internet.
Approaching 100 Starlinks active in Iran
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2022
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, the controversial billionaire Musk sent thousands of Starlink terminals to the nation. Twenty thousand of the tiny white receivers have been deployed throughout Ukraine. Musk, Twitter’s CEO, responded on Monday to a user who claimed to have filmed in “the streets of Iran,” where “more freedom for the women to choose whether to cover their hair or not.”
The remark seemed to be a reference to the demonstrations that gripped Iran and the globe after the murder of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish woman after she was arrested in Tehran for allegedly violating Iran’s stringent dress code for women in September.
The United Nations reports that Iran has arrested over 14,000 people and that 469 demonstrators have been killed (IHR). More than 200 individuals, including security agents, were slain, according to the country’s main security authority in early December.
Until last fall, Instagram and WhatsApp were the only unfiltered social media sites, and the government has since cracked down on programs like the Google Play Store and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) that attempt to bypass local access restrictions. Although Twitter is forbidden in Iran, many Iranians, including the country’s foreign minister, utilize VPNs to access social media platforms.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday that 100 Starlink internet terminals are up and running in Iran. The entrepreneur made the promise to bring the satellite internet network to Iran in September, as Iranian authorities implemented further access restrictions in what activists said was an attempt to hide information about nationwide rallies.
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