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The Facebook Oversight Board announced Tuesday that it was reviewing a company decision to remove a post calling for the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the wake of nationwide protests in the country. In its Tuesday announcement, the board describes the July post as depicting a caricature of Khamenei grasping “a woman wearing the hijab” with his beard. The image is captioned calling for death to the “anti-women Islamic government” and its “filthy leader Khamenei.” While Facebook removed the post…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the company will ask for an exemption from sanctions against Iran to provide the firm's Starlink satellite broadband service in the country. Musk made the statement on Twitter at a time of widespread protests in Iran over the death of a woman in police custody. Some people on Twitter asked Musk to provide the satellite-based internet stations. Access to social media and some content is tightly restricted in Iran and internet monitoring group NetBlocks reported "near-total" disruption to…

Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP (Getty Images)Iranian hackers with ties to the nation’s military are responsible for carrying out “hundreds” of ransomware attacks on victims in the U.S. and other countries over multiple years, U.S. federal authorities said Wednesday. The attacks are said to have targeted nearly every kind of organization you could think of—from local governments to non-profits to small businesses, churches, and schools.02:49Guess How Much Crypto's Been Stolen Lately? Part 2Today 10:45AMOn Wednesday, the…

Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, center, in 2021. Photo: abedin taherkenareh/Shutterstock…

Clay tablet with Linear Elamite text. Louvre Museum Sb 9382. Credit: Zunkir / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0 A team of researchers, with a member each from the University of Tehran, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Bologna working with another independent researcher, has claimed to have deciphered most of the ancient Iranian language called Linear Elamite. In their paper published in the German language journal…

GettyImagesMicrosoft has warned that an Iranian state-based threat actor it calls Mercury is using the Log4Shell flaws in applications from IT vendor SysAid against organizations located in Israel.Microsoft's nation-state tracking team, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), has assessed with "high confidence" that the campaign is affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). US Cyber Command tracks the group as MuddyWater, which it assesses is a "subordinate element" of MOIS.Targeting…

News footage of the Khayyam satellite being launched from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Gif: Tasnim News AgencyA new Russian-made, Iranian-operated satellite launched to orbit on Tuesday, joining the growing cloud of devices circling the Earth. Though unlike your average SpaceX Starlink, the high-powered imaging satellite has U.S. intelligence officials biting their nails, concerned over what both Russia and Iran could be looking at down below.Iran’s Khayyam satellite was launched into orbit on…

An Iranian satellite launched by Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan early Tuesday and went into orbit amid controversy that Moscow might use it to improve its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine.A live feed from Russian space agency Roscosmos showed the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite from the Russia-controlled Baikonur cosmodrome at the scheduled time of 05:52 GMT (11:22am).The Russian mission control confirmed its subsequent entry into orbit.Iran, which has maintained ties with…

A cyberattack that temporarily shut down numerous Albanian government digital services and websites in mid-July was likely the work of pro-Iranian hackers seeking to disrupt an Iranian opposition group's conference in Albania, a leading US cybersecurity firm said. In a report, Mandiant expressed "moderate confidence" the attackers were acting in support of Tehran's anti-dissident efforts based on several factors: The timing, the content of a social media channel used to claim responsibility, and similarities in software…

Earlier this month, the irrepressible Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi found himself detained in Tehran and facing six years in jail. It’s the latest move in a long and largely fruitless campaign by the Iranian authorities to silence an artist who continues to be an international beacon of inspiration – not least to his son, Panah Panahi, who worked on his father’s most recent films, and who here makes his own triumphant feature debut as writer and director.We meet the stars of Hit the Road in the borrowed car in which…