{"id":4053,"date":"2025-06-21T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:27:02","slug":"trumps-envoy-urges-musk-to-provide-free-starlink-to-friends-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/trumps-envoy-urges-musk-to-provide-free-starlink-to-friends-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s envoy urges Musk to provide free Starlink to \u2018friends\u2019 in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

The satellite system, promoted as a humanitarian tool, has proven crucial for frontline coordination and drone warfare<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>US Presidential Envoy for Special Assignments Richard Grenell has urged SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to provide free Starlink access across Iran so that his \u201cfriends\u201d<\/em> can have uninterrupted \u201c<\/em>access to information\u201d<\/em><\/em>\u00a0amid an escalating Israeli bombing campaign against Tehran.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you turn on Starlink for free in Iran for the next few weeks, @elonmusk? My friends inside Iran don\u2019t have regular access to information right now. I\u2019ll chip in a donation and I think others would, too,\u201d<\/em> wrote Grenell, the former acting Director of National Intelligence, in a post on X.<\/p>\n

Musk has not yet responded to the request, at least not publicly. The billionaire previously said that the \u201cbeams are on,\u201d<\/em> indicating the service is technically available \u2013 although accessing Starlink requires a special satellite dish to receive and transmit signals.<\/p>\n

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Starlink is \u2018backbone\u2019 of Ukrainian military \u2013 Musk<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Starlink\u2019s constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites was originally promoted as a solution for providing high-speed, low-latency internet to remote and rural areas. President Trump has praised the system for offering vital connectivity in disaster zones, particularly after hurricanes Helene and Milton, when traditional networks failed.<\/p>\n

However, the system has also proven critical for frontline coordination and drone warfare. SpaceX has supplied the Ukrainian military with Starlink since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022, delivering more than 40,000 terminals. Kiev\u2019s forces have become fully dependent on Starlink, and disabling it would result in the collapse of the \u201centire frontline,\u201d<\/em> Musk claimed in March.<\/p>\n

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Israel doesn\u2019t go rogue \u2013 it goes with the Pentagon\u2019s green light<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When Israel launched a surprise \u201cpre-emptive\u201d<\/em> attack against Iranian nuclear facilities last week, its intelligence agency Mossad reportedly activated sleeper cells who had smuggled drones into Iran to strike defensive infrastructure from within.<\/p>\n

With the possibility of Washington joining the bombing campaign growing, Iranian authorities have severely restricted communications, isolating the country\u2019s internet from the rest of the world. They also urged citizens to delete WhatsApp, accusing Israel of using the Meta-owned app to spy on users.<\/p>\n

Richard Grenell, a former US ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence, now serves as the Presidential Envoy for Special Missions under Donald Trump. In this role, he has handled a wide range of diplomatic crises and international back-channel efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The satellite system, promoted as a humanitarian tool, has proven crucial for frontline coordination and drone warfare US Presidential Envoy for Special Assignments Richard Grenell has urged SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to provide free Starlink access across Iran so that his \u201cfriends\u201d can have uninterrupted \u201caccess to information\u201d\u00a0amid an escalating Israeli bombing campaign against Tehran….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}