Science and Technology

Radiozamaneh – The coronavirus pandemic has created a humanitarian crisis in Iran. Zamaneh Media has obtained several documents containing data from Iranian hospitals. The leaked documents indicate that the Iranian government has been covering up the actual Covid-19 infection and mortality numbers in the country. Iranian firefighters and municipality workers disinfect a street in the capital Tehran for coronavirus COVID-19 …

Al-Monitor – Google took action against Iranian government accounts for coordinated activity, the tech giant announced Wednesday. The move follows similar actions by Facebook and coincides with Twitter rolling out labels for select government accounts on its platform. Google announced it terminated 16 YouTube accounts in April that were allegedly linked to the Iranian state-sponsored International Union of Virtual Media network. …

zdnet.com – An Iranian hacking group known as Oilrig has become the first publicly known threat actor to incorporate the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol in its attacks. Speaking in a webinar last week, Vincente Diaz, a malware analyst for antivirus maker Kaspersky, said the change happened in May this year when Oilrig added a new tool to its hacking arsenal. According to Diaz, Oilrig operators …

gatestoneinstitute.org – It cannot… be a surprise that Iran is still sprinting toward deliverable nuclear weapons with the very uranium enrichment technology permitted by the 2015 agreement. While the U.S. Senate was told the deal would halt Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weaponry, the deal only camouflaged the mullahs’ ambitions to acquire it. Worse, when the deal’s provisions were to sunset …

Radiofarda – A senior member of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce has reacted to the possible adoption of “herd immunity policy” by the government of President Hassan Rouhani, saying it is “inefficient”. President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said according to the estimates of the Health Ministry up to 25 million people in Iran have already been infected since the breakout …

RFL/RE — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has welcomed Iran’s handover to France of the flight recorders from a Ukrainian airliner that was downed shortly after taking off from Tehran on January 8. French investigators have begun working on extracting data from the black boxes recovered from the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) jet that was downed by a missile, killing all …

Shabtabnews – According to DorrTV news sources, The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, on the orders of the Supreme National Security Council and the government of Hassan Rouhani, has called for a comprehensive study of the Islamic Republic’s withdrawal from the NPT. The Islamic Republic acceded to the Protocol on 18th December 2003, during the presence of …

RFL/RE – There is growing support among outside security experts for the notion that an “incident” at Iran’s main nuclear-enrichment facility last week was an act of sabotage in a shadow war aimed at setting back Tehran’s nuclear activities.Many analysts believe that a foreign state, possibly Israel, was behind the July 2 fire at the Natanz facility in Iran’s central …

Radiofarda – A mysterious explosion and fire in one of Iran’s nuclear facilities has opened the flood gates to speculations and analysis as to whether it was an accident, sabotage or foreign attack. A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced on Thursday, July 2, that an “accident” had occurred at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in …

VOA – New details of an Iranian nuclear facility damaged in a mysterious fire suggest Thursday’s incident is a much greater setback to Iran’s nuclear ambitions than Tehran has publicly admitted. The Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security identified the facility as a centrifuge assembly workshop at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant in central Iran’s Isfahan province. In a …