The starlink receivers can be targeted by rockets guided by the signals they emit. It’s actually a fairly easy thing to do in the spectrum of electronic warfare. These devices have an emissions fingerprint. Originally those guidance systems were designed to knock out SAM radar.

Anyway would unfiltered internet access really help the Iranians? They’re drinking rubbing alcohol to cure themselves of covid 19. Hundreds died. They live under religious rule because of an intelligence deficit. It’s genetic. High speed internet won’t fix them. But hey at least they’ll have some porn.

I'm sure the Iranian government know about anti-radiation missiles. And I'd be willing to bet the protesters have accounted for that and are stringing their starlink stations well away from their homes using long ethernet cables or similar.

Not to mention the fact that you can't deal with starlink the same way you'd knock out a SAM site - if you drop a missile on an apartment building and kill tens or hundreds of people, that's not going to help defuse the protests that are currently going on.

When I was at university there were doctoral students who taught some of our classes, and some of them had assorted middle eastern backgrounds, including Iranian. They were all incredibly smart and remarkably nice people, some of whom had the bad luck to be born in a theocratic dictatorship. It certainly was not genetic. You should reconsider your prejudices.

I expect the Iranian government will be firing the rockets. These people are backwards. They’ll execute you on a beach for wearing a bikini. It happens quite regularly. They’ll drive up with machine guns in the name of allah.

I’m not saying they’re stupid. Rather 50+ generations of executing the critical thinkers in their communities has ‘bred’ a specific cognitive deficit into their gene pool. They’re gullible. They’ll believe anything they’re told so long as it appears to come from an authority and their close peers agree. That’s why they’re wearing black burkas in the burning desert sun, and believing that nonsense religious hogwash and drinking rubbing alcohol. I’m just making an observation, it’s not prejudice.

So no account for the "genetic" intelligence required to navigate such a society intelligently? You have some extremely disgusting conclusions that aren't based in facts but merely extremely prejudice and racist conjecture amplified by propoganda. I really hope you rethink them. You claim you have depression in your post history. May I make a suggestion. Stick to things you know, ideas to create, and find new constructive habits that don't feed whatever the hell this kind of output of yours is. It will cause you problems.

Actually, I’m half Iranian. And I lived there in the 90s for 5 months so I know first hand exactly how backwards and primitive the people are and the conditions they live in.

So, clearly not enough time or experience to make scientifically false statements about an entire country of nearly 90 million people, many of which are much smarter than you or I.

I don't doubt that problems exist. And I'm sorry your family has to deal with that. But going on rants about genetic inferiority is not the solution.

I appreciate you telling some of your experiences, but don't let them poison your tongue. Put that energy into something constructive. Just my thoughts. I wish you and your relatives the best.

If the Iranians want out of the mess they’re in they’re going to have to fight, but it’ll be bloody. The police shoot protesters dead in the street. They need a full revolution.