Internet service in Iran tumbled to nearly 0% after the protests began, according to data from NetBlocks.
Nearly a week after Iran’s internet went dark amid widespread—and deadly—anti-government protests in the wake of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody, Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service may be able to begin providing internet access after U.S. officials lowered key technology sanctions.
Musk also expanded Starlink, the satellite broadband service that SpaceX first launched in 2019, to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion of the country in February, and after Russian forces destroyed cell phone towers in an attempt to silence Ukrainian communications in the early months of the war.
