This week, Elon Musk stated that Starlink will work to have the sanctions against Iran lifted so that the country may use the service.
Musk claimed that Starlink, which connects hundreds of satellites in low-Earth orbit with user terminals on the ground, is now operational on all seven continents.
As a result of large protests over the murder of a Kurdish-Iranian woman in police custody last week, portions of the Iranian Kurdistan province experienced a telecommunications blackout on Monday, according to internet watchdog NetBlocks.
In Iran, there are strong controls on social media and other content in addition to internet outages.
