{"id":1016563,"date":"2026-06-24T08:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016563"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:50:48","slug":"israel-smuggled-starlink-systems-into-iran-former-pm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/israel-smuggled-starlink-systems-into-iran-former-pm-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel smuggled Starlink systems into Iran, former PM says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Israeli prime minister \u200backnowledged on Tuesday that \u200bIsrael had smuggled Starlink internet receivers into Iran to \u200bhelp anti-government protesters, though he said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s government failed to follow through on the plans. <\/p>\n<p>Naftali Bennett, who served as prime minister from 2021 to 2022, \u200ctold an audience \u2060at \u2060the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem that he had initiated a &#8220;process of acquiring \u200band smuggling into Iran tens of thousands of Starlink receptors that would allow continuity \u200bof the internet and social networks&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Israeli prime minister \u200backnowledged on Tuesday that \u200bIsrael had smuggled Starlink internet receivers into Iran to \u200bhelp anti-government protesters, though he said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s government failed to follow through on the plans. Naftali Bennett, who served as prime minister from 2021 to 2022, \u200ctold an audience \u2060at \u2060the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem that he had initiated a &#8220;process of acquiring \u200band smuggling into Iran tens of thousands of Starlink receptors that would allow continuity \u200bof the internet and social networks&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016584,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016563\/revisions\/1016584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}