{"id":277720,"date":"2026-02-10T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277720\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:55:09","slug":"musks-starlink-in-crosshairs-of-iran-russia-at-un-space-confab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277720\/","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":277721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[19982,2024,2147,40365,16609,8307,647,111,139,69,8105,147,392,145,45534,16940],"class_list":{"0":"post-277720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-elon-reeve-musk","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-ipos","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-law","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-tehran","23":"tag-united-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}