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A SILENT BLOODBATH is being live-streamed from the sky. While Iranian authorities plunge the nation into a digital blackout to hide their violent crackdown, a secret lifeline is beaming in from space—and it’s infuriating the regime.

The weapon? A small, pizza-box-sized Starlink dish. The source? Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Over 2,600 people have been KILLED as Iran tries to crush protests, according to human rights monitors. The government’s first move was to CUT the internet, to slaughter in the shadows. But activists confirm: the shocking videos and images escaping the darkness are coming through Starlink. “Every time the government has shut down the internet they have killed many more people,” says internet researcher Farzaneh Badiei. This satellite link is now a human rights tool.

Here’s why the regime is TERRIFIED: There’s no wire to cut. The signal rains down from a grid of 9,500 satellites. “It’s very hard to censor because the signal is coming from the sky,” explains satellite expert Jonathan McDowell. The Iranian parliament CRIMINALIZED its use. Security forces hunt users and try to jam signals. But they are FAILING.

Despite the ban, an estimated 50,000 Starlink units have been smuggled in. Activists report SpaceX has made the service FREE inside Iran, a move seemingly backed by high-level U.S. talks. The people are finding a way, trading devices on the black market, refusing to be silenced.

But this desperate hope comes with a dangerous asterisk: the fate of a revolution now relies on the goodwill of a single billionaire and his private company. The regime’s brutality is being watched, in real time, on a network they cannot control.

The truth is escaping, one illegal signal at a time, and the executioners are furious they can’t stop it.



Edited for Kayitsi.com

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