According to Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, around 100 Starlink internet terminals are currently operational in Iran.
As Iranian authorities applied more rigorous access restrictions in what activists dubbed an attempt to limit information about protests that had broken out nationally, the businessman had pledged to introduce the satellite internet network to the nation in September.
“Approaching 100 Starlinks active in Iran,” Musk tweeted Monday.
Users below can access the internet through Starlink’s network of more than 2,000 minuscule satellites that orbit just a few hundred kilometers above Earth.
The simple routers that produce tiny wifi hotspots are then connected to the land-based terminals.
After delivering thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine in the days following Russia’s invasion, controversal billionaire Musk earlier this year earned the title of hero in that nation.
There are currently 20,000 of the small white receivers spread out across Ukraine.
In response to a user whose video they claimed was shot in the “streets of Iran,” where there is now “greater freedom for the women to choose whether or not they cover their hair,” Twitter CEO Musk sent a reply on Monday.
The tweet seems to refer to the worldwide demonstrations that broke out when Mahsa Amini, an Iranian-Kurdish woman, 22, was killed in September after being detained in Tehran for allegedly violating the tight dress code that is in place there.
According to the UN, Iran has launched a crackdown that has resulted in approximately 14,000 arrests, while Iran Human Rights, a Norwegian organization, claims 469 protestors have been killed (IHR).
