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Musk: Some 100 Starlink Internet Systems Operating in Iran

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Around 100 Starlink internet systems are in operation in Iran, Elon Musk, whose SpaceX company provides the service, said Monday,

The satellite-linked systems offer internet access to Iranians enduring government crackdowns on the already restricted online service due to the nationwide protests more than three months after they were triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody.

Musk had pledged in September to provide the system after the US gave SpaceX an exemption, as part of what US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called a move to “advance Internet freedom and the free flow of information for the Iranian people.”