Maintenance in progress

a former israeli prime minister publicly acknowledged that israel initiated a program to smuggle tens of thousands of starlink receivers into iran to sustain connectivity for anti-government protesters, but that the netanyahu government did not follow through on implementation. the public acknowledgment by a senior former official of a covert infrastructure operation — naming the government that failed to execute it — is structurally unusual and crosses a norm against disclosing active or attempted covert programs.

israeli and regional press, western wire services