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The only way I could see is through SMS using a low power satellite phone such as this: http://www.iridium.com/products/product.php?linx=0350 http://www.iridium

The only way I could see is through SMS using a low power satellite phone such as this: http://www.iridium.com/products/product.php?linx=0350 http://www.iridium.com/products/product.php?linx=0350 But in a country where people live on roughly $2 a day (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/25/afghanistan.terrorism25 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/25/afghanistan.terr...) I doubt many have $1,400 satellite phones that cost $6 a day to use. Other methods are impossible... Twitter is blocked through regular internet (see Michael C. McHugh comment here: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/The_stakes_in_Iran.html http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/The_stakes_in_Ir... ) Cell phone towers are what's been cut so no SMS (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jSPlmVgh-SfeEO9WhpOVG6Slnu0w http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jSPlmVgh-...) Satellite dishes have been banned since '94 (http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34407 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34407) so no highspeed internet that way.

apsec112 17y ago
Iranians do not live on $2 a day; Iran is a middle-income country roughly comparable to Mexico or Turkey. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran.
lionheart 17y ago
Satellite dishes might be banned, but this doesn't mean that they aren't very widespread. This isn't the United States or Europe. I believe there was an article in the NY Times about this exact issue. Everybody "middle-class" and up has a satellite dish. Every few months the government confiscates them, at which point everybody goes to the local black market dealer, buys a new one and puts it back up. Quite often the new one is their old one because usually the black market dealer is whoever is in charge of the local branch of the satellite dish confiscation agency. Ah, reminds me of the bad old days in the Soviet Union.
pageman 17y ago
we used to have Thuraya phones in Afghanistan for emergencies (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090421134111AAFS8e2 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090421134111AA...) - if they satellite you are trying to upload to DOESN'T point to the horizon, you could have your satellite pointing to the sky on the roof and people would be none the wiser.

apsec112 17y ago

Iranians do not live on $2 a day; Iran is a middle-income country roughly comparable to Mexico or Turkey. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iran.

lionheart 17y ago

Satellite dishes might be banned, but this doesn't mean that they aren't very widespread. This isn't the United States or Europe. I believe there was an article in the NY Times about this exact issue. Everybody "middle-class" and up has a satellite dish. Every few months the government confiscates them, at which point everybody goes to the local black market dealer, buys a new one and puts it back up. Quite often the new one is their old one because usually the black market dealer is whoever is in charge of the local branch of the satellite dish confiscation agency. Ah, reminds me of the bad old days in the Soviet Union.

pageman 17y ago

we used to have Thuraya phones in Afghanistan for emergencies (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090421134111AAFS8e2 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090421134111AA...) - if they satellite you are trying to upload to DOESN'T point to the horizon, you could have your satellite pointing to the sky on the roof and people would be none the wiser.