🚨🇮🇷 Iran threatens the DEATH PENALTY for owning a Starlink dish, and warns it may cut power to the whole country just to stop the next uprising Tehran’s cyberspace chief called Elon's satellite internet a “tool of war” this week and bragged that Iran has “several systems” for cutting off terminals, which it will share with friendly regimes. Six months to two years for using one, up to five for distributing them, and death if the charge gets upgraded to espionage. The deputy technology minister said what he’s really afraid of. Starlink doesn’t need Iran’s network, so it’s “the last nail in the coffin” of state control, and in the next crisis “we will have to cut electricity.” Remember why. In January the regime shut off the entire internet and killed more than thousands of protesters. The videos showing the extent of the brutality, only reached the world because Iranians with smuggled dishes uploaded them while security forces raided apartment buildings hunting for rooftops with @Starlink. SpaceX went a step further and made the service free for Iran. Without those terminals and the people risking prison to use them, the world might still be guessing at how many died and how bad it really got. The dark truth... A government that treats internet access as an act of war is telling you exactly how afraid it is of its own citizens and of the truth getting out. Source: Al Jazeera @elonmusk / Writer: Daniel