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A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

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Re: A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

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jmyeet wrote: post #107
tgma wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can't think of a single example where foreign inteference [sic] (or war) has had the citizenry welcome foreign powers as liberators or otherwise increased freedoms or conditions in a country for those citizens. That's one of the lines people spew as if it is a tautology without actually thinking about its accuracy. Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, need more examples? Iranians right now also tend to disagree w…

I should've said post-1945. That was imprecise. My bad. Economic sanctions are largely a post-1945 tool. Sure there are examples like stopping oil exports to Imperial Japan but sanctions as an economic regime where a large part of the world isolates you economically didn't really happen until the Cold War as the US remade the economic order post-1945. Since then we have a 100% failure rate for economic sanctions of e…

Changing the goalposts much? From no one was ever happy not even once to limiting to an arbitrary date in the calendar. I can't take your rant seriously. Of course there have been wars whose results improve the conditions of the population. There is no denying that.

> France... How does that relate to Iran?

Iran is also occupied by Mullah-IRGC-Palestine axis that have no overlap with the values 85%+ of the population. Iran pays Hezbollah members ~$1800/month when their own citizens are in poverty below $100. Their country is objectively occupied and resources are being raided by a foreign group and literally kills anyone that complains.

You also mentioned this in your original post which prima facie shows your knowledge of the Persian people is precisely zero:

> However unpoular [sic] the IRGC or the Supreme Leader are in Iran, the US and Israel are less popular.

Re: A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

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Post by nixon_why69 »

tgma wrote: post #132
jmyeet wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I should've said post-1945. That was imprecise. My bad. Economic sanctions are largely a post-1945 tool. Sure there are examples like stopping oil exports to Imperial Japan but sanctions as an economic regime where a large part of the world isolates you economically didn't really happen until the Cold War as the US remade the economic order post-1945. Since then we have a 100% failure rate for economic sanctions of e…

Changing the goalposts much? From no one was ever happy not even once to limiting to an arbitrary date in the calendar. I can't take your rant seriously. Of course there have been wars whose results improve the conditions of the population. There is no denying that. > France... How does that relate to Iran? Iran is also occupied by Mullah-IRGC-Palestine axis that have no overlap with the values 85%+ of the population…

Did you just say -Palestine axis? Like they're the ones calling the shots here?

Before USA/Israel started bombing girls' schools and creating oil rain over all of Tehran, there were protests against the rulership that had to be brutally repressed. After that, there were people in the streets waving Iranian flags in Tehran.

Re: A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

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Post by tgma »

nixon_why69 wrote: post #133
tgma wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Changing the goalposts much? From no one was ever happy not even once to limiting to an arbitrary date in the calendar. I can't take your rant seriously. Of course there have been wars whose results improve the conditions of the population. There is no denying that. > France... How does that relate to Iran? Iran is also occupied by Mullah-IRGC-Palestine axis that have no overlap with the values 85%+ of the population…

Did you just say -Palestine axis? Like they're the ones calling the shots here? Before USA/Israel started bombing girls' schools and creating oil rain over all of Tehran, there were protests against the rulership that had to be brutally repressed. After that, there were people in the streets waving Iranian flags in Tehran.

The 1979 revolutionaries trained for guerrilla warfare in PLO Camps in Lebanon and Jordan.

Re: A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

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Post by clydethefrog »

Related story - in February 2026, the baggage of a Dutch diplomat was confiscated. It contained three Starlink satellite modems and seven satellite phones, concealed inside a suitcase.

https://karat.substack.com/p/a-diplomatic-suitcase-at-imam-k...

Re: A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout

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Post by nixon_why69 »

tgma wrote: post #134
nixon_why69 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you just say -Palestine axis? Like they're the ones calling the shots here? Before USA/Israel started bombing girls' schools and creating oil rain over all of Tehran, there were protests against the rulership that had to be brutally repressed. After that, there were people in the streets waving Iranian flags in Tehran.

The 1979 revolutionaries trained for guerrilla warfare in PLO Camps in Lebanon and Jordan.

All of them? Did they forget Farsi? Change their opinions on various Imams?

Brother, I am not a fan of the Iranian government but if you're claiming Iran is occupied by a foreign Palestinian axis then you have lost the plot.

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