The Spectacular Failure of a Tech-Driven Uprising

Washington and Tel Aviv expected Iran to buckle. The script was familiar. Seed unrest through clandestine networks. Keep organisers online through satellite links. Wait for the state to lose its footing, then step in under the banner of “protecting democracy.” Iran has seen that movie before.

What actually happened was far less cinematic. Tehran cut the internet, crushed the spectrum, and jammed the satellite links. Years of smuggled Starlink terminals and carefully curated protest cells suddenly couldn’t communicate. The shiny Western comms backbone that was supposed to coordinate a nationwide uprising sputtered into static.

Starlink didn’t become the secret weapon of regime change. It became a beacon. With the blackout in full effect, every terminal lit up against the silence. The “invisible” network revealed itself. Cells that were meant to operate like ghosts became coordinates on a map. Israel and the US didn’t just lose the plot. They lost operational security.

For all the breathless hype about tech toppling governments, Iran delivered the bluntest of lessons. States that understand war, sanctions, and siege understand jamming and blackout. They play for survival, not symbolism. And resilience beats gadgets.

The most humiliating part isn’t that the operation failed. It’s that it failed loudly. A colour revolution reimagined through Silicon Valley infrastructure was outplayed by a power outage and a spectrum knife.

The West insists the future is tech. Iran, Russia, and China just demonstrated that the future is counter-tech. And once that balance shifts, all the old tricks of mayhem and managed chaos lose their teeth.

The revolution wasn’t televised. It was disconnected. And the architects in Washington and Tel Aviv will pretend it never happened.

Or bomb Iran anyway. The brutes that they are.

(Live drone footage of pro government rally in Iran says a lot)