Coverage
Featured Coverage
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2026
NPR · January 2026
"It's basically smuggled in through the southern border... this is critical because this is getting them to the hand of these citizen journalists and activists."
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2025
FDD — The Iran Breakdown · June 2025
"We need technological innovation plus logistics."
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2025
SAPIR Journal · May 2025
"Even for a very short time, the free press is magic."
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2025
The Editors · January 2025
"Let's find different language...major support for freedom activists inside Iran to be able to bring that change themselves."
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2019
CNET · 2019
"While a college student in Tehran, Iran, during the 1990s, he tried to make a satellite dish for the receiver he'd purchased on the black market. Satellite equipment was illegal at the time -- it still is -- and hard to find. So he and a friend made their own DIY dish out of scrap metal in his family's backyard."
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2016
Wired · April 2016
"Years later, he became a post-doctoral researcher in bio-informatics at Stanford in 2004, and struck upon the idea of using those same satellite dishes as an alternative to Iran's besieged internet. But he says it took another decade before Iranian satellite receiver boxes began to have use USB ports, making Toosheh's scheme possible."
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2016
ماهنامه خط صلح · April 2016 Persian
«توشه یک بستر تکنولوژیکی جدید است که در حال حاضر بهطور مشخص برای مخاطبان در داخل ایران است؛ ولی قابلیت این را دارد که به کشورهای دیگر هم گسترش پیدا کند.»
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2016
Center for Human Rights in Iran · March 2016
"Toosheh will offer content with high quality and fast speed."
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2012
GigaOm · February 2012
"The fight against censorship in Iran is one of the best things the outside world could do at this point."
