{"id":471703,"date":"2026-02-11T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/471703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:28:07","slug":"musks-starlink-in-crosshairs-of-iran-russia-at-un-space-confab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/471703\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s Starlink in Crosshairs of Iran, Russia at UN Space Confab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Starlink<\/a> satellite constellation violates international law while blurring the line between commercial and military technologies, Iranian and Russian diplomats said at a United Nations meeting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The \u201cillegal operation\u201d of Starlink in Iran violates the nation\u2019s sovereignty and amounts to \u201cunauthorized military use of a commercial satellite mega-constellation,\u201d read a statement delivered by the Islamic Republic late Monday at a UN scientific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unoosa.org\/oosa\/en\/ourwork\/copuos\/stsc\/2026\/index.html\" title=\"unoosa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">meeting in Vienna<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink satellite constellation violates international law while blurring the line between commercial and military technologies, Iranian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,53114,2057,2755,44316,5575,9959,14512,2016,128,285,105,5574,6902],"class_list":["post-471703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-europe","tag-florida","tag-ipos","tag-iran","tag-law","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-tehran","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}