Starlink: Iran Internet Shutdown – Only Gateway to the World
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- Iran is experiencing a near-total internet and telephone blackout. Communication is limited to sporadic images shared via Starlink, Elon Musk's satellite service.
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Iran is experiencing a near-total internet and telephone blackout. Communication is limited to sporadic images shared via Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite service.
Estimating Starlink usage in Iran is difficult. Reliable information is scarce, and no foreign journalists are currently reporting from within the country. However, users face notable risk; possessing a Starlink terminal carries a potential prison sentence of up to ten years.
Spy Equipment
Iran banned Starlink last year, classifying the satellite terminals as spy equipment.
Starlink is one of the few ways for Iranians to make some contact with the outside world.
“Starlink is one of the few ways for Iranians to make some contact with the outside world,” says Amir Rashidi, an Iranian digital rights and security expert with the US-based Miaan Group. “We have never seen such a major blackout. Not only is the internet out, people can’t call or send messages either.” A small number of people briefly regained the ability to make international calls this morning.
Regime Manhunt
Starlink terminals in Iran were smuggled into the country, primarily through Kurdish regions in the north, according to Rashidi.