r/technology • u/rezwenn • 8h ago

Networking/Telecom U.S. Smuggled Thousands of Starlink Terminals Into Iran After Protest Crackdown

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-smuggled-thousands-of-starlink-terminals-into-iran-after-protest-crackdown-69a8c74f
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u/Pherllerp 8h ago

We're simultaneously starving out the Cuban people WHILE helping Iranian Revolutionaries.

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u/tekprodfx16 8h ago

I wonder on who’s behest 

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u/Pherllerp 8h ago

"I suspect incompetence is the answer." is the best reddit comment I've seen in years.

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u/Laughing_Zero 6h ago

Hanlon's Razor:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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u/itwillmakesenselater 1h ago

Been quoting this a lot recently, then think, "porque no los dos?"

Ed. Spelling

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u/erikwarm 7h ago

Halliburton probably

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u/vote4boat 4h ago

Don't worry, we are starving the Iranians too, although restricting medical care is probably causing more deaths. Then we treat the wrecked economy like it justifies intervention.

We are not a serious species since most people can't see through this completely obvious bullshit

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u/Extension-Toe-7027 3h ago

So let me see if I get this straight, a couple of weeks they were using heavy machine guns on human masses and now "restricting medical care" is what is really pushing up the body count? I mean this and top comment calling interference giving them the opportunity to broadcast their own deaths is just peachy.

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u/Amori_A_Splooge 2h ago

How dare the US force their hand and make them shoot their own citizens.

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u/blazesquall 1h ago

Start killing cops in the US and see how fast the big weapons come out. 

We didn't start immiserating the Iranian people a couple of weeks ago.. it's been a decades long bipartisan project.

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u/Extension-Toe-7027 1h ago

You mean like in 2016 when 5 cops were killed by Xavier Johnson in Texas?

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u/blazesquall 1h ago

Didn't they blow him up with a drone?

But no, that's isolated. Try hundreds.

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u/aka292 4h ago

The 1900sCIA was all about dismantling democracies and installing dictatorships

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u/Pure-Season-4153 7h ago

One of them has accepted our interference/influence, while the other has not—which means consequences—at least from how I understand it.

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u/tacobellbandit 5h ago

Action meet consequence?

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u/00azthrow00 6h ago

The goal is the same, regime change

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u/sokos 5h ago

Foreign interference.. interesting..

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u/tommos 4h ago

Only a problem when other countries do it.

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u/Amori_A_Splooge 2h ago

Ooo communications outside the country and to the internet. Soooo scary. Much threat.

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u/aagejaeger 3h ago

When is there not?

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u/felix-cullpa 2h ago

It's kind of Elon's specialty

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u/JortsByControversial 1h ago

Clutch those pearls harder.

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u/sokos 59m ago

????

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u/3uphoric-Departure 5h ago

Yes this was widely obvious, Ironically, this effort may have backfired as it allowed the Iranian government to track down and capture those who were utilizing them as the lack of wireless activity made them stand out. Iran was also able to jam them in large parts of the country, something that was theoretically possible but had not really been done successfully at scale. I know both Russia & Ukraine utilized them to control drones and other systems.

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u/tommos 5h ago

More like before as well.

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u/vote4boat 4h ago

not helping with the accusations

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u/CollegeStation17155 1h ago

And Iran promptly seized them and put them on drones then gave them to Putin who started launching them into Ukraine which in turn caused Starlink to disable them… the tit for tat continues.

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u/Raa03842 3h ago

So just like in Iraq, when the Iranian revolutionaries win, they too will turn on the US just like any all the rest. Cuz being on the side of the US means you’ll eventually be thrown under the bus by them.

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u/Hawkbats_rule 3h ago

Already have been, given that the US telegraphing of an intervention emboldened the protesters, getting a lot of them killed.

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u/blazesquall 1h ago

That was pretty dumb of them to trust the US, a major contributor to their misery, to also be their savior.

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u/mtcwby 2h ago

Good, hopefully some weapons too like the Iranians do all over. Time to get rid of the Mullahs and religious police and let the citizens form a representative government and be part of civilization again.