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Filing as No One: How Bank Melli's Messenger Got Past Apple
The App Store screen that catches a sanctioned bank's name has no way to catch the chairman of one of its subsidiaries filing under his own.
Aug 7
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July 2026
The Six-Dollar Market: Iran's Social Commerce Problem
At a fintech conference in Tehran on July 16, 2026, the head of Iran’s leading social commerce platform did something Iranian officials rarely do: he…
Jul 22
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Iran Can Cut the Internet. It Cannot Keep It Cut
The Islamic Republic’s ambition to build a sealed, North Korea-style information environment is not new and did not begin with the recent war.
Jul 6
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June 2026
The Let's Encrypt Clause: Reading a Warranty Without the License
A drafted compliance warranty set off alarm. General License D-2 had already answered the question.
Jun 12
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Traffic Laundering, Part II: How Iran Made Azerbaijan Third in the World for ChatGPT Usage
The data doesn't lie. The traffic does.
Jun 8
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Traffic Laundering: Iran’s Azerbaijani Proxy and the Architecture of Controlled Access
Iran's internet runs through Baku. That's not an accident.
Jun 2
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May 2026
Iran Digital Pulse: Intranet to Filternet
The government’s partial restoration of internet access after 88 days does not return Iran to the pre-shutdown baseline. It installs a new control…
May 28
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Iran Digital Pulse: Code Against the Blackout
What grassroots technical resistance looks like when a government cuts 90 million people off from the open internet.
May 25
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Iran Digital Pulse: A Luxury Few Can Afford
How the internet shutdown converted access into a commodity only the wealthy can buy.
May 21
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Iran Digital Pulse: The Cybersecurity Debt of a Blackout
How Iran’s state-mandated blackout has frozen the country’s ability to patch, update, and defend its digital infrastructure.
May 19
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Iran Digital Pulse: Education Under Blackout
How the Islamic Republic’s internet shutdown is dismantling Iran’s learning infrastructure, from primary schools to research universities. Analyzing…
May 15
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Iran Digital Pulse: Living Around What's Missing on Day 72
What Iranians are saying about an internet shutdown that has begun to settle in as a permanent condition. May 6–10, 2026.
May 10
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