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The government of Iran began blocking access to non-government sanctioned VPNs in March 2013, [9] a few months prior to the 2013 elections, to "prosecute users who are violating state laws" and "take offenders to national courts under supervision of judiciary service". Use of VPNs approved by the government reportedly led to surveillance and ...
The support that Iran gives these groups—typically weapons, and advice on how to use them—doesn’t translate into the kind of power and control sponsors typically have over their proxies ...
In political science, a proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power. In the term proxy war, a belligerent with external support is the proxy; both belligerents in a proxy war can be considered proxies if both are receiving foreign military aid from a third party country.
In March 2021, the National Intelligence Council released a report that found Russia and Iran carried out operations to influence the 2020 election. [7] A declassified U.S. intelligence report released in December 2023 found with "high confidence" that a "diverse and growing group of foreign actors" including China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba had all interfered in the 2022 midterms with influence ...
The Iran-backed “axis of resistance” - a name Tehran and its proxies use for their concerted action against their enemies - all say their actions since Oct. 7 are in response to Israel’s ...
Iran continues to send weapons and intelligence to proxy groups accused of killing three U.S. soldiers and attacking commercial ships, U.S. officials say.
The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War is a non-fiction book by former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Officer John Kiriakou and investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter about America's behavior and actions during four decades with Iran. [1] The book was published by Simon & Schuster ...
Vatanka's most recent book, The Battle of the Ayatollahs in Iran: The United States, Foreign Policy and Political Rivalry since 1979 was published by I.B. Tauris in 2021. [1] The book looks at key turning points in Iranian foreign policy since 1979 and demonstrates how often petty factional competition for power in Tehran has undermined Iranian ...