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Iran jams Starlink and darkens 80 million people

development2026-01-12

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Iran activated jamming that severed Starlink access, cutting 80 million people off from the network.

Reported metric: 80M people

Reporting date: 2026-01-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 12, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Four days after orbit was used to coordinate a regime change, a state proves the link can be cut.

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Welcome to January 12, 2026

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Politics becomes infrastructure

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A regime change is coordinated from low Earth orbit

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Iran jams Starlink and darkens 80 million people
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-12
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-12-iran-severs-starlink
Claim: Iran activated jamming that severed Starlink access, cutting 80 million people off from the network.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to January 12, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-12-2026
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