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Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
2020/04/06
2019/10/15
2019/09/19
Tensions are rising
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-18/iran-says-it-s-not-looking-for-war-warns-u-s-against-action
2019/07/31
2020 Election Security
Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-2020-election-security-mark-warner
What distinguishes this latest group, which Facebooks says it discovered a week ago, from the Iranian propaganda network that tech giants shut down this past summer are the striking similarities between its campaign and the one the Russians mounted before the 2016 election. Rather than focusing on the Iranian regime's agenda at home, the new network focused squarely on American and British politics. As it turns out, that may be a more successful strategy: While the network discovered this summer had just around 200,000 followers on Facebook and Instagram, this latest batch had more than one million.
2019/07/29
foreign election interference
https://www.lawfareblog.com/managing-and-mitigating-foreign-election-interference
This is no laughing matter. Such warnings—even when they are issued seriously—are not working. For example, in August 2018, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton warned Russians not to meddle in the upcoming midterms. Had the warnings worked, the Russian government would not have tried to manipulate the election and the United States would not have needed to protect the integrity of the midterms from Russia. But just a few months later, U.S. Cyber Command reportedly launched offensive cyber operations against Russian targets, and while it was apparently able to block Russian troll farms on Election Day, its defensive actions suggest that multiple warnings by the United States did not dissuade Russia’s efforts to interfere. Russia has continued its efforts since, using myriad social media platforms to spread disinformation in an attempt to sway elections and call into question the stability of democracies.
Persian Gulf Russian Roulette
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/20/why-united-states-is-playing-rope-a-dope-with-iran-persian-gulf/
“We need to be the calm and steady part of the equation,” McKenzie told CBS News’s David Martin and me, the two journalists who are traveling with him. “We don’t need to overreact to what the Iranians do.”
“Clearly this [Iranian] action is irresponsible,” McKenzie continued. “But merely because they’re being irresponsible, we shouldn’t fall into the trap of some form of overreaction. So our response is going to be very calm, taken in concert with the international community.”
2019/07/19
2019/07/18
Iran seizes ship
Iran Says Its Revolutionary Guard Seized Foreign Oil Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/743016095/iran-says-its-revolutionary-guard-seized-foreign-oil-tanker-in-strait-of-hormuz
2019/07/08
Growing out of control
Iran's Uranium Enrichment Breaks Nuclear Deal Limit. Here's What That Means
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/07/738902822/irans-uranium-enrichment-breaks-nuclear-deal-limit-here-s-what-that-means
Growing out of control
Iran's Uranium Enrichment Breaks Nuclear Deal Limit. Here's What That Means
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/07/738902822/irans-uranium-enrichment-breaks-nuclear-deal-limit-here-s-what-that-means
2016/06/02
Iranian mystery man
Khomeini's secret dialogue with 'The Great Satan'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36438556
A much better political player than we realize.
2016/02/28
Iran election results
Iran election: Reformists win all 30 Tehran seats - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35681250
2015/12/28
Special Christmans Meal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/jailed-washington-post-correspondent-has-christmas-meal-with-family/2015/12/25/dacdb3ac-ab2d-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html
2015/11/09
Iran gets missles
Russia to provide Iran with S-300 air defence missiles - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34767012
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