{"id":21068,"date":"2022-12-27T08:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T08:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=21068"},"modified":"2022-12-27T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T08:16:25","slug":"elon-musk-says-around-100-starlinks-now-active-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/12\/27\/elon-musk-says-around-100-starlinks-now-active-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says around 100 Starlinks now active in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm&#8217;s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid protests around the Islamic country.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said, &#8220;approaching 100 starlinks active in Iran&#8221;, in a tweet on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/musk-says-activating-starlink-response-blinken-internet-freedom-iran-2022-09-23\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">said in September<\/a>\u00a0that he would activate Starlink in Iran as part of a U.S.-backed effort &#8220;to advance internet freedom and the free flow of information&#8221; to Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite-based broadband service could help Iranians circumvent the government&#8217;s restrictions on accessing the internet and certain social media platforms amid protests around the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic has been engulfed in protests that erupted after the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody after being arrested by the morality police for wearing &#8220;unsuitable attire&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm&#8217;s satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would activate the service there amid protests around the Islamic country. Musk said, &#8220;approaching 100 starlinks active in Iran&#8221;, in a tweet on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21070,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions\/21070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}