Jason Rezaian

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · How the Internet Could Help the Iranian People · 26 May 2026 podcast

No, it's not that simple.

But the fact that we're not able to help them stay online, and internet access is like oxygen, as it is anywhere else in the world at this point.

Going back to 2009 when, and I want to talk about President Ahmadinejad because he's back in the news again this week, right?

But going back to his contested re-election in 2009, the first time that the Islamic Republic cut off the internet.

The United States has said, we're not going to let this happen again.

We're going to do whatever we can to keep them online.

And your audience and your colleagues at Wired know a lot more about how the internet works than I do.

But we have technological capability to help people stay online.

in ways that we didn't have 17, 18 years ago.

Whether it's Starlink or direct-to-cell satellite internet access, these things exist.

And they're a hell of a lot cheaper than the missiles and bombs that we have been, the American taxpayer has been subsidizing.

I want to acknowledge that the administration did a better job of acknowledging the reality that Iranians were rising up against their repressive regime better than previous administrations had and faster, right?

So the...

The idea that Donald Trump wanted to have the backs of protesters, right, support protesters, it's a nice notion.

And it would have been a nice about face for a president who has, unfortunately, going back to his first term, done nothing but make the lives of Iranian people harder.

There's a travel ban against people of color.

Several countries.

The first iteration of that, which he did almost immediately coming into office in 2017, it was fewer than 10 countries that were affected at that time.

But if you looked at the data, more than half of visa applicants would have been from Iran.

So you can't really say that you're supporting the aspirations of Iranian civil society and Institute of Travel Ban that blocks them from studying in our universities and taking part in all the wonderful things about the United States, not helping them stay on the Internet when they're blocked from it.

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