{"id":1655419,"date":"2022-09-23T15:53:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655419"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:53:39","slug":"musk-says-activating-starlink-in-response-to-blinken-on-internet-freedom-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-says-activating-starlink-in-response-to-blinken-on-internet-freedom-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk says activating Starlink, in response to Blinken on internet freedom in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-says-activating-starlink-in-response-to-blinken-on-internet-freedom-in-iran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1655419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013     SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that he would activate the firm\u2019s satellite internet service, Starlink, in response to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s tweet that the United States took action \u201cto advance internet freedom and the free flow of information\u201d to Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday issued guidance expanding internet services available to Iranians despite U.S. sanctions on the country, amid protests around Iran following the death of a 22-year-old woman in custody.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>A Treasury official briefing reporters earlier on Friday said Starlink\u2019s commercial-grade system, which would involve sending hardware into Iran, would not be covered by the general license.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would be something that they would need to write into Treasury for,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk could not be reached for comments or clarification regarding Starlink\u2019s clearance to operate in Iran.   <\/p>\n<p>Iranians have been protesting over the death of Mahsa Amini last week, who was arrested by the morality police for wearing \u201cunsuitable attire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said on Monday that the company wanted to provide Starlink satellite broadband service \u2013 already provided to Ukraine for its fight against Russia\u2019s invasion \u2013 to Iranians, and would ask for a sanctions exception.   <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/musk-says-activating-starlink\/attachment\/illustration-shows-starlink-logo-and-ukraine-flag-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8M0WB-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8M0WB-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that he would activate the firm\u2019s satellite internet service, Starlink, in response to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s tweet that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}