Last week The Deep State reported the claim of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that it had hacked a U.S. drone forcing American forces to destroy it This week Nick Waters of the Bellingcat open-source investigative site says that independently obtained video confirms that Iranian back forces did bring down a U.S. drone in...
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U.S. Military Forced to Destroy Drone After it Was Hacked By Iran
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Aerospace Division struck back at the United States last week after learning that the U.S. had made concerted efforts to sabotage Iran’s ballistic missile program. Last Friday, the IRGC said it had penetrated US drone command and control networks, releasing footage of a US military aircraft bombing a hacked drone out of...
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Facebook Praises the MEK, an Iranian Cult Movement Known for Killing U.S. Citizens
Facebook has a foreign policy, and it seems to skew toward Israel and Iranian crackpots. Last month, the social media giant announced that (with the advice of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab [DFRLab]) it had removed 783 assets — pages, groups, and accounts — that the company assessed to be associated with an Iran-based network for “coordinated inauthentic...
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U.S. Charges a Former Air Force Counterintelligence Officer Spied for Iran
Once again the Iranian intelligence services have demonstrated the ability to penetrate U.S. intelligence. A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has indicted Monica Witt, a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence officer, for espionage on behalf of the Government of Iran. Four Iranians were also charged with acting on behalf of the Iranian...
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How the CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy
NPR’s new history podcast Throughline, hosted by Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, covers the 1953 coup against Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh as the topic of its first episode: How The CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy in 4 Days.