🔶 direct satellite internet for phones in Iran; Is there hope?
Report by Irfan Kasrai.
4 years ago and in September 2022, at the height of the protest uprising after the death of Mahsa Amini and the shutdown of the Internet in Iran throughout the country, I wrote to Elon Musk, the owner of Spacex, on the Twitter social network, which had not yet been renamed X, and asked if it was possible to provide Starlink Internet to Iranians? Musk then replied that he would ask the US government to exempt Starlink from the sanctions on Iran.
Shortly thereafter, the US Treasury Department responded to Starlink's request for exemption from sanctions, and the news of the issuance of a general D-2 license by the Joe Biden administration to expand Internet services to Iran.
After the announcement of the Starlink operation for Iran by Elon Musk, news was published about the arrival and use of Starlink terminals in Iran. At the end of December 2022, Musk announced that almost 100 Starlink terminals are active in Iran.