Dara Qureshi scrolls through the contacts on his phone, each name an alias for activists across the border in neighbouring Iran, where protests have been raging for two weeks. Qureshi, a member of one of many Iranian Kurdish opposition parties exiled in Iraq, responds to one of them, “Brwa,” who asks how to access Starlink, a satellite constellation operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, after the business magnate promised to allow Iranians affected by state-imposed internet restrictions to use it. “What is your advice, comrade?” writes the unknown activist. Qureshi makes inquiries, knowing there are…