Iran just ran the most sophisticated electronic warfare campaign ever deployed against a commercial satellite constellation.

They succeeded.

And it didn't matter.

Here's the physics they missed:

The regime spent $300 million on Russian Krasukha-4 jammers. Achieved 30-80% packet loss nationwide. Made video calls impossible. Made streaming unwatchable. Made commercial internet useless.

On January 8, Crown Prince Pahlavi said: "8 PM tonight. Chant together. Wherever you are."

At 8 PM, neighborhoods across Tehran erupted simultaneously. 31 provinces. 185 cities. The most coordinated uprising in 45 years.

The generals optimized for the wrong variable.

Netflix requires 5-25 megabits per second of continuous throughput.

Revolution requires 1.3 kilobits. Once.

A single protest instruction compresses to less storage than one pixel of video. It doesn't need real-time delivery. It can queue, retry, relay through whatever windows the jamming leaves open.

TCP/IP guarantees eventual delivery. At 80% packet loss, messages take 5 attempts instead of 1.

The message still arrives.

Iran built a $300 million system to deny Netflix.

They couldn't deny revolution.

This is the hard floor of the digital age: the bandwidth required for coordination is 10,000x smaller than the bandwidth required for commerce.

Autocracy has a throughput problem that physics cannot solve.

The night they tried to kill the sky, they discovered the sky had already won.

Read the full deep dive story how it happened..
https://open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans