SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Friday that in response to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s tweet that the United States was taking steps to “promote Internet freedom and the free flow of information” for Iranians, the Starlink satellite Internet service will activate itself.
Early on Friday, at the same time as protests intensified across the country due to the killing of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was being detained by him, the US Treasury Department issued a directive to expand internet services available to Iranians despite US sanctions against Iran. Morality Police, after he slipped into a coma.
A Treasury Department official told reporters that commercial use of the Starlink service, which would require shipping equipment to Iran, would not be covered by the department’s general license.
The official added: “In this context, they should refer to the Ministry of Treasury to achieve this goal.”
Musk said on Monday that the company is seeking an exemption from sanctions imposed on Iran for providing Starlink satellite broadband services in the country. The company has already provided the same service to the Ukrainians in the war with the Russians.
It is worth mentioning that in a tweet on his user account, in response to one of the users, Musk clearly stated that his company “Starlink” requested an exception to the sanctions imposed on Tehran, but did not mention more details.
This tweet was published while many Iranian cities are witnessing widespread protests against the conviction of the murder of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the religious police or moral police in Tehran.
He was taken to the hospital and then he died. Something that started a wave of protests and protests in the country and prompted the authorities of some regions to stop the mobile internet service.
Source: Lebanon Debate
