The most powerful weapon is information. And nowhere is that more evident than in the smoldering wake of Israel’s military strike on Iran — a strike that not only rattled Tehran’s crumbling foundations, but also exposed, once again, the fragile grip of the Islamic Republic over its own people. Naturally, the ayatollahs did what authoritarian regimes do best: panic, suppress, and cut off the internet faster than CNN can spin a Biden gaffe. But this time, they ran into a slightly inconvenient obstacle — a guy named Elon Musk.
Yes, while the mullahs were scrambling to jam every digital signal out of the sky, Elon decided to casually flip the switch on Starlink and beam the internet right into the heart of their totalitarian sandbox. With three words — “The beams are on” — he just might’ve done more for freedom in the Middle East than the United Nations has managed in three decades of hand-wringing. And the left still can’t decide whether to cancel him or give him a Nobel.
Musk was responding to a call from Mark Levin, who wisely pointed out that giving Iranians access to information could be the final nail in the regime’s coffin. Imagine that — letting people talk, coordinate, think for themselves. It’s a concept so radical that it terrifies both the Iranian leadership and half the blue-check crowd on social media.
The beams are on
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 14, 2025
The Iranian people? They’re not buying the propaganda. Dissidents are cheering Israel’s precision strikes like it’s the Fourth of July and calling out the regime for what it is — a dangerous, theocratic, anti-Iranian cabal that has hijacked the country for 46 years. Iranian filmmaker Faezeh Alavi summed it up when she praised Netanyahu for drawing a line between the Iranian people and the dictatorship lording over them. She reminded the world that if the regime isn’t stopped, it’s not just a regional issue — we’re all signing up for a nuclear nightmare.
And let’s not overlook Professor Afshin Ellian’s blunt but painfully accurate observation: there won’t be true liberation until the heads of the snake — Khamenei, his son Mojtaba, and their brutal enforcers — are gone. Without them, the regime has no succession plan. No backup tyrant waiting in the wings. Just an empty suit in a burned-out palace.
Even exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, who has steadily become the grown-up voice of the Iranian diaspora, is calling for nationwide strikes and civil unrest. He’s naming names and calling out Khamenei’s bloodlust for what it is — a war not against Israel, not even against America, but against Iran itself. It’s no coincidence that the people of Iran, weary from decades of hardship, are starting to draw that distinction.
And then there’s Masih Alinejad — a voice the left once loved until she started saying things they didn’t want to hear — dropping truth bombs on X. She called out the regime’s obsession with ideological warfare for what it is: delusion and destruction. The war with Israel, she noted, isn’t the Iranian people’s war. It’s the Islamic Republic’s suicidal tantrum. And like all tantrums thrown by tyrants, it’s being paid for in the blood of innocents.
So now the question isn’t whether the regime will fall — it’s how much longer they can hang on while their own citizens, emboldened by a little Wi-Fi from the sky, begin to see past the lies. The ayatollahs’ worst nightmare isn’t a missile or a drone. It’s truth. It’s dialogue. It’s an Iranian teenager logging onto X and seeing the world isn’t what state media told them.
Bibi is spot on. We are sharing the same enemy.
The Islamic Republic’s nuclear program must be stopped; otherwise, a nuclear war would start by this regime soon, and Iranian people would lose ANY chance of freeing Iran.
Many world leaders also owe Israel for protecting them… pic.twitter.com/MMNPIKGzax
— Faezeh Alavi (@SFaeze_Alavi) June 13, 2025
That’s the threat. And that’s why Musk turning on Starlink wasn’t just a tech story — it was a liberation moment. One small step for a satellite, one giant leap for millions yearning to be free.
