Starlink for Iran: Elon Musk against the Mullahs

MIranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Tuesday at a religious ceremony at the University of Tehran that “we have no mercy for the “unreasonable.”

According to his interpretation, anyone who questions the rule of the mullahs and also expresses this is “unreasonable”. According to the regime’s self-image, anyone who resists and protests against the system of repression is guilty of “waging war against God”. And this can only be punished with death. So the rulers murder one opposition figure after the other, more than twenty people are said to be on the current “death list” of the Iranian judiciary.

No Koran verses on his grave

Earlier this month, the regime had already executed two demonstrators. Majid-Reza Rahnavard, who was accused of killing two members of the paramilitary Basij militia, was publicly executed. In his case, too, the verdict was “War against God”. At his grave, the young man expressed his last wish not to quote the Koran, but to play cheerful music. He wished for joy and happiness at his grave.

No wonder that he received even more admiration for this, which is expressed on the Internet. No wonder the Iranian regime gets along so well with the war criminal Putin, who also exaggerates his war of annihilation in religious terms. No wonder Tehran is supplying Moscow with weapons to annihilate the people of Ukraine. It’s also no wonder that the mullahs not only suppressed the protest with extreme brutality on the street – 500 people are said to have died in the protests – but also try to criticize their supposedly god-ordained rule from every corner and end on the Internet impede.

And that’s where, as in Ukraine before, the dervish of our day, Elon Musk, comes into play. His Starlink satellite Internet service, he says, will soon set up a hundred connections for Iran, giving people access to the Internet, which the Iranian regime shuts down completely on a daily basis. There is the erratically acting egocentric Musk, who mostly gives the impression that he is his own cosmos, but then he is on the right side, namely with those who even give their lives in the fight for human rights, freedom and democracy and are not willing to to submit to the rule of terror.

With Musk, you never know how long the conviction will last. First he unblocks Donald Trump on Twitter, then he censors critics in his network, then he takes up arms against the censorship of unjust states. The dance of the dervishes serves to approach the divine. Elon Musk’s pirouettes seem pretty earthly. When he turns against those who think they can pass off their slaughter as an outpouring of divine will, the direction is right.