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905 Starlink fears grip Iran regime: Has satellite internet become new battlefield?

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Madhur Sharma @ Firstpost Tech · 01/15/2026 00:20 EDT

Starlink fears grip Iran regime: Has satellite internet become new battlefield?

As Iran’s theocratic regime faces its greatest challenge in five decades, it is confronting not only the fury of the people disillusioned by the Islamic Revolution’s unfulfilled promises but also Western technology. Rattled by Elon Musk’s Starlink, Iran’s regime now finds satellite internet emerging as a new weapon —and internet signals as the latest battlefield— that can be fired in the shadow war with the United States.

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