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Cyber Security and the Iranian Threat

If you follow the Iranian regime’s bad behavior, which we know you do, you are well aware that it is very active in cyberspace. As we’ve discussed in the past this activity is usually focused on suppressing domestic dissent, censoring the domestic media, and denying Iranians access to the world wide web. What has been less well

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Fun with Photoshop

The Iranian regime has been caught putting out another doctored picture, this time of its new fighter jet. The jet, which was made public last week, probably can’t actually fly. But that hasn’t stopped a young IRGC member with Adobe photoshop from pretending it can! See the picture below: Jonathan Jones, writing in The Guardian,

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Iran, Africa, and the Small Arms Trade

Armin Rosen writes today in The Atlantic about a recent headline grabbing study by Conflict Armament Research. The study is focused on the Iranian regime’s role in supplying ammunition and various small arms to Africa. As the report indicates, and Rosen relates, Iranian arms are likely reaching far flung conflicts on the continent via a pipeline that leads

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