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Based on another report I just read from Iran's PressTV (state-sponsored service with an expired encryption cert today), this sounds like a giant DDoS attack.
Iran says repelled ‘one of world’s most complex’ cyberattacks on national infrastructure
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Iran Says Repelled ‘one Of World’s Most Complex’ Cyberattacks On National Infrastructure - Iran Front Page
Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology said the country faced “one of the most complex cyberattacks” globally in recent days, targeting critical infrastructure linked to a domestic telecom operator.

Amazingly high quality analysis by ISW about Iran, too bad they don’t have a mastodon account we can follow.
https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-december-31-2025/

Iran Update, December 31, 2025
Small protests broke out in Tehran on Dec. 28 and spread to 17 out of Iran’s 31 provinces. CTP-ISW recorded 31 protests in Iran on Dec. 31

Das Jahr beginnt unter anderem mit neuen Massenprotesten im #Iran. Schon in den letzten Tages des vergangenen Jahres gab es Demonstrationen von Händlern, inzwischen auch von Studenten in etlichen Städten im Land. Inzwischen geht das Regime gewaltsam dagegen vor und es gab Tote. In manchen Städten wurden Einrichtungen der SIcherheitsdienste und Regierungsgebäude von Demonstranten angegriffen oder sog…

Iran's government offers dialogue as protests spread to students - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251231-iran-s-government-offers-dialogue-as-protests-spread-to-students

Iran : les manifestations gagnent plusieurs villes sur fond de crise économique - YouTube
#iran

Stellt ein Ultimatum - Blutige Proteste: Trump droht Iran mit Eingreifen #News #Nachrichten

Iran protests.
#iran #protests

"Drought Is Fueling an Air Pollution Crisis in Iran"
#Iran #AirPollution
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/iran-dr…

Drought Is Fueling an Air Pollution Crisis in Iran

Trump Threatens To "Knock The Hell" Out Of Iran - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/trump-threatens-to-knock-the-hell-out-of-iran/

Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity
— a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels
— after Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in 2018.
Tehran long has maintained its atomic program is peaceful, though the West and the IAEA say Iran had an organized nuclear weapons program up until 2003.
Iran says it is no longer enriching uranium at any of its nuclear sites;

Iran says it is no longer enriching uranium at any of its nuclear sites; AP explains
Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity — a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels — after U.S.

IA aplicada al an\'alisis del conflicto Ir\'an-Israel: Mapeo de discursos en YouTube
Alvaro Vallejo Ram\'irez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00021 https://

IA aplicada al análisis del conflicto Irán-Israel: Mapeo de discursos en YouTube
Purpose. This study analyzes the digital representation of the Iran-Israel conflict that occurred in June 2025, based on 120,000 comments posted on YouTube. It sought to identify discursive positions regarding the actors involved and to examine how media and algorithmic biases shape digital conversations. Methodology. A mixed-methods design with triangulation was adopted. In the quantitative phase, natural language processing techniques and machine learning models (BERT and XLM-RoBERTa) were us…

⛐ Iran to attend World Cup draw after reversing its planned boycott
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/04/iran-to-attend-world-cup-draw-after-reversing-its-planned-boycott

Iran to attend World Cup draw after reversing its planned boycott
Iran has reversed its boycott of the World Cup draw, with team representatives due to attend the event in Washington DC

Iran's president says moving the capital Tehran is now a necessity as the water crisis deepens. That'll be moving 16 million people (metro area) then, almost equal to the entire population of the Netherlands.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202511209098

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain.

"After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up"
#Iran #Climate #ClimateChange

After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up
Iran is looking to relocate the nation’s capital because of severe water shortages that make Tehran unsustainable. Experts say the crisis was caused by years of ill-conceived dam projects and overpumping that destroyed a centuries-old system for tapping underground reserves. 

Die #Klimakrise trifft den #Iran:
In Iran stehen 19 große #Staudämme kurz vor dem Austrocknen. Drei sind bereits leer.
Besonders betroffen ist

Wasserversorgung täglich unterbrochen: 19 große Stauseen in Iran offenbar kurz vor dem Austrocknen
Drei Stauseen in Iran sind bereits ausgetrocknet, viele weitere stehen kurz davor. Besonders betroffen ist die Hauptstadt Teheran. Diese soll wegen des Wassermangels möglichst bald verlegt werden.

Real conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.

December 18, 1978
Iran: Not A Good Day To Be The Shah
– Peace Talks On Hold
– OPEC’s Big Price Boost
https://pastdaily.com/iran-not-a-good-day-to-be-the-shah-peace-talks-on-hold-opecs-big-price-boost-de…

Iran: Not A Good Day To Be The Shah - Peace Talks On Hold - OPEC's Big Price Boost - December 18, 1978
News for this day was full of implications for the future. From Tehran – Tehran and several provincial centers shut […]

🛑 How Iran and third countries are helping Russia circumvent sanctions #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/how-iran-and-third-countries.html

Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Narges Mohammadi bei Trauerfeier festgenommen
#Iran #Frauen #Nobelpreis

Narges Mohammadi : Iranische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Mohammadi erneut festgenommen
Die iranische Frauenrechtsaktivistin Narges Mohammadi ist laut ihrer Stiftung im Iran unter Gewalt festgenommen worden. Auch andere Aktivisten seien abgeführt worden.

RSF, can you fix the introduction book on front of The Uncensored Library? The one on the server got replaced with the Iran book for some reason (left). Checked the world download and the introduction book is there, as I remembered (right).
#Minecraft #TheUncensoredLibrary

„Werden es tun!“ - Eine Sünde! Iran droht mit Absage seines WM-Spiels #News #Nachrichten

RE: #Iran

Iran-backed hackers sought to blackmail Bolton over emails - indictment
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202510166119

Iran-backed hackers sought to blackmail Bolton over emails - indictment
Iran-backed hackers sought to blackmail former US national security advisor John Bolton over emails they had accessed, according to an indictment on Thursday accusing him of mishandling classified material.

Iran on Thursday said it was ending the agreement it signed in September
allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume inspections there,
after a resolution passed earlier in the day by the agency’s board
demanding “precise information” about Tehran’s enriched uranium and nuclear sites “without delay.”

A statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that countries that voted for the resolution
— backed by France, Britain, Germany and the …

Iran cancels new nuclear inspections it agreed to after bombing campaign
The termination of the agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency follows U.S.- and European-led charges that access has been denied.

Heute vor 19 Jahren: Am 16. November 2005 laut Diplomaten nimmt der #Iran die #Uranverarbeitung wieder auf und führt somit den Richtungswechsel im #Atomabkommen nach der Wahl von Ahmadinedsch…

Iran-linked hackers target Israeli, Egyptian critical infrastructure through phishing campaign https://therecord.media/iran-linked-hackers-target-israel-egypt-phishing

Zurück zu den Iran-Sanktionen (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10145

#Trump threatens #nigeria over #christian deaths, but returns Christian converts to Iran.
BBC News - Christian converts are among the Iranians being sent home from US

I normally try to avoid american politics like the plague. There's nothing I can do about it.
But this piece. Wow.
These guys have a lot in common with Iran's clerics.
I'm starting to feel we have to pay some attention in Europe. Because they're coming for us next. ...
#Journalism #Nonprofit #News #Media #NorthCarolina #Law #USPolitics

#bedfellows The US sided with Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran to block part of a UN report about the dire state of the planet "because it called for phasing out fossil fuels, switching to clean energy and reducing plastics."

U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say
American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.

#Iran Seit Jahren dürfen #Frauen ein Fussballspiel im Imam-Resa-Stadion besuchen. Ein kleiner symbolischer Sieg.

Im Iran dürfen Frauen erstmals seit Jahren wieder ein Fußball-Stadion besuchen
Erstmals seit Jahren dürfen Frauen ein Fußballspiel im Imam-Resa-Stadion besuchen. Warum der Einlass in Maschhad für viele ein symbolischer Sieg ist - und was Fifa-Präsident Infantino dazu sagt.

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said.
The situation in Tehran is the result of “a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,” says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
“We no longer have a choice,” said Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during a speech on Thursday.
Instead Iranian officials are considering moving the capital to…

Iran's Capital Has Run Out of Water, Forcing It to Move
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

"The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding."
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

“In my view, we are in an all-out war with the United States, Israel, and Europe;
they do not want our country to stand on its own feet,”
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with the Supreme Leader’s official website.
He said the current war is worse than the Iraq war in the 1980s.
“If one understands it properly,
this war is far more complex and more difficult than that war.”
“In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear;
the…

Iran says it is in full-scale war with US, Israel and Europe
Iran’s president said on Saturday the country is facing a full-scale confrontation with the United States, Israel, and Europe, describing the pressure campaign against Tehran as more complex and damaging than the Iran–Iraq war.

"The United Kingdom is one of only two countries in the world to award religious figures a permanent seat in the legislature, the other being Iran.[26]" cool

Iran's Streets 'Transformed' As More Women Shun The Mandatory Hijab
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-hijab-woman-life-freedom-tehran-protests/33555684.html

#USpol #ice #iran #refuge #refugee

Der #Iran erlebt die schwerste #Dürre seit 50 Jahren. #Flüsse und #Stauseen sind ausgetrocknet, der…

Dürre im Iran: Alle Stauseen praktisch ausgetrocknet
Der Iran befindet sich in seiner schwersten Dürre seit 50 Jahren, Flüsse und Stauseen trocknen aus. Während Kritiker der Regierung Missmanagement vorwerfen, bringt der Wassermangel die Menschen zusehends in Bedrängnis.

In 2016, The Atlantic’s journalist
Shane Harris
made contact with a person claiming to work as a hacker for Iran’s intelligence,
where he claimed to have worked on major operations,
such as the downing of an American drone and the now-infamous hack against oil giant Saudi Aramco,
where Iranian hackers wiped the company’s computers.
Harris was rightly skeptical,
but as he kept talking to the hacker,
who eventually revealed his real name to him,…

They Killed My Source
A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

Fearless Girl in #Oslo, standing tall outside the Iranian Embassy. Originally a symbol of gender equality in finance, her stance now echoes global resistance, honoring the courage of women fighting for freedom in Iran and beyond.
P.S. This is a replica of "Fearless Girl" by Kristen Visbal, which debuted in New York in 2017. This replica was originally unveiled on International W…

Heute vor 22 Jahren: Am 18. Dezember 2003 akzeptierte der #Iran das sogenannte #Zusatzprotokoll das unangekündigte Kontrollen in iranischen #Atomanlagen erlaubt, das Parlament ratifizierte es j…

Iran will nicht reden - Mullah-Führer zu Trump: „Träumen Sie weiter!“ #News #Nachrichten

Nach VAR-Eingriff: FIFA erkennt Trump Friedenspreis wieder ab, weil er Militär im eigenen Land einsetzt, Schiffe bombardiert, den Iran attackierte, Grönland und Panama mit Annexion droht und einen Krieg mit Venezuela anbahnt https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/12/var-trump.html

Measuring Innovation Patterns in Iran and Neighboring Countries: A Time Series Similarity Approach Using STL and Dynamic Time Warping
Mahdi Goldani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10323

Measuring Innovation Patterns in Iran and Neighboring Countries: A Time Series Similarity Approach Using STL and Dynamic Time Warping
Innovation is becoming ever more pivotal to national development strategies but measuring and comparing innovation performance across nations is still a methodological challenges. This research devises a new time-series similarity method that integrates Seasonal-Trend decomposition (STL) with Fast Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to examine Irans innovation trends by comparison with its regional peers. Owing to data availability constraints of Global Innovation Index data , research and development s…

Warum und wie setzen #Spitäler #Temporärkräfte ein? 🏨🤔
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem TAILR-Team im Iran haben wir unsere Analyse dazu in IJNS Advances veröffentlicht. 🥳🤓
Was haben wir dabei gelernt?👇
💡 Temporärkräfte und Pflegehelfer wurden in 12,…

Iran: Dams almost empty in Mashhad, home to 4 million people - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251109-iran-dams-almost-empty-in-mashhad-home-to-4-million-people

The Handala hacker group has put a bounty for information on over a dozen Israelis it claims are developers of Patriot, Arrow, and David's Sling air defense systems.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-880394

Serial entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on early-stage building in neurotech https://www.neurofounders.co/post/serial-entrepreneur-hamed-bahmani-on-early-stage-building-in-neurotech

Serial Entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on Early-Stage Building in Neurotech
Few people dare to start a company, and even fewer attempt it in a technically complex field like neurotechnology. Yet Dr Hamed Bahmani has now done it three times. After launching a clinical-stage company focused on myopia and another targeting Alzheimer’s through the visual system, he is doubling down on complexity. His latest venture has just emerged out of stealth, but early hints suggest it draws on decades spent at the forefront of neuro-innovation.Born in Iran, Bahmani studied engineer…

Iran plans water cuts for Tehran amid worst drought in decades
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251108-iran-plans-water-cuts-for-tehran-amid-worst-drought-in-decades

"Iran inaugurates 250 MW of new solar plants"
#Iran #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Iran inaugurates 250 MW of new solar plants
Speaking at an inauguration ceremony that also marked the start of a further 450 MW of solar plants, Iran’s President said the government is prepared to remove any obstacles facing the acceleration of new solar projects.

Seattle’s Plans for a Pride Match at World Cup Infuriates Iran and Egypt - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/world/middleeast/iran-egypt-world-cup-seattle-pride.html

Tehran says Russia will build eight new nuclear power plants in Iran: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/02/tehran-says-russia-will-build.html

World Cup assigns LGBTQ-themed game to Iran
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/08/world-cup-assigns-lgbt-themed-game-to-iran-where-homosexuality-is-punishable-by-death/

Heute vor 22 Jahren: Am 10. November 2003 veröffentlichte die #IAEA einen vertraulichen Bericht, der zeigt, dass der #Iran in den letzten 18 Jahren heimlich Technologien zur Produktion von waffenfähigem hochangereichertem #Uran

Dealte im großen Stil - Busfahrer-Ehepaar kochte Crystal Meth in der Küche #News #Nachrichten <…

"Iran became a pioneer in gender transition operations by forcing procedures on L.G.B.T.Q. Iranians. Desperate for cash, the Islamic republic is hoping to attract trans patients from around the world."
Iran Lures Transgender Foreigners for Surgery but Forces Operations on Locals - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/myZKw

It's been a crazy week, so don't leave for the weekend until you check out today's Metacurity for the crucial cyber developments you should know, including
--Oracle confirms customer extortion emails, urges patch updates,
--Red Hat confirms security incident and begins remediation,
--Apple drops ICEBlock ICE tracking tool under pressure from DOJ,
--Japan to run out of Asahi beer after cyberattack,
--Air Force probes possible SharePoint breach,
-…

Oracle confirms customer extortion emails, urges patch updates
Red Hat confirms security incident and begins remediation, Apple drops ICEBlock ICE tracking tool under pressure from DOJ, Japan to run out of Asahi beer after cyberattack, Air Force probes possible SharePoint breach, Israeli medical center targeted in suspected Iran attack on Yom Kippur, much more

Iran says nuclear cooperation with IAEA ‘no longer relevant’ | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/5/iran-says-nuclear-cooperation-with-iaea-no-longer-relevant?traffic_source=rss

Kritik an Ausstellung - Verfolgte Christen: „Für dieses Kreuz geblutet“ #News #Nachrichten