"SpaceX has waived the Starlink subscription fee in Iran, so people with receivers in the country can access service without paying, according to Ahmad Ahmadian, executive director of the US group Holistic Resilience, which works with Iranians to secure Internet access," Bloomberg reports Tuesday."A person familiar with Starlink's operations confirmed the free ser vice, while asking not to be identified because the information isn't public," the report says further.

Word of this comes after earlier the same day President Trump encouraged Iranians to mount a coup and attack government buildings and institutions. In a serious escalation of his Iran rhetoric, Trump posted to Truth Social earlier, "To all Iranian patriots: keep protesting. Take over your institutions if possible. And save the names of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you."

What started as economically-driven protests in Tehran marketplaces last month threatens to become a full-blown insurgency targeting police and government buildings, amid some reports that over 100 security personnel have died.

Western press accounts have focused on the allegedly hundreds of protesters killed, with some highly dubious sources on Tuesday going so far as to claim 12,000 demonstrators have been killed.

But what hasn't been a focus is that semi-official Tasnim News Agency is claiming that at least 109 security personnel have lost their lives.

"The servicemen were martyred after swarms of violent rioters attacked them by firing bullets and hitting the law enforcement forces with various weapons," said the commander of the special forces General Masoud Mosaddeq, as quoted in the outlet.

Various external forces have tried to hijack the protests, amid Israel's Mossad also boasting its agents have infiltrated and are influencing events on the ground. So obviously, there's a raging info war of competing narratives - just like with the Syria and Libyan regime change wars before.

Starlink will supposedly help video from on the ground get out of the country, but such info could also be driven by foreign NGOs (or else foreign governments). The Wall Street Journal freshly reports:

With the government shutting down the internet and throttling phone services, Iranians are leaning heavily on Elon Musk's Starlink service to share videos of growing protests and the regime's escalating crackdown with the world.