Israeli intelligence operations inside Iran have alarmed Beijing, which saw them as a new model of intelligence warfare, prompting deeper technological, security, and strategic cooperation with Tehran.
Iran should’ve banned all Western devices after the exploding pagers. From reports (true or not?), Western mobile devices and apps were still being used and that is how ISSrael got some locations to strike. Iran needs to ban all Western devices and go with Chinese.
I know for a fact that thought never occurred to anyone among the Iranian establishment
Despite all the ludicrous propaganda about anti-Americanism in Iran, the sad truth is Iranian society is remarkably western-philic, Iranians are culturally and intellectually captured by a bizarre exported form of early 90s western triumphalism. It reached its crescendo in 1997 when the reformers first came to power, but thirty years later it still hasn’t abated among the youth and those who came to adulthood during the 90s
Chinese here must mean “under the complete control of the People’s Republic of China at every step” (which may be more difficult than it sounds due to global supply chains and other factors). Taiwan, under Republic of China occupation, definitely doesn’t count (see the Hezbollah pager incident)
Iran should’ve banned all Western devices after the exploding pagers. From reports (true or not?), Western mobile devices and apps were still being used and that is how ISSrael got some locations to strike. Iran needs to ban all Western devices and go with Chinese.
I know for a fact that thought never occurred to anyone among the Iranian establishment
Despite all the ludicrous propaganda about anti-Americanism in Iran, the sad truth is Iranian society is remarkably western-philic, Iranians are culturally and intellectually captured by a bizarre exported form of early 90s western triumphalism. It reached its crescendo in 1997 when the reformers first came to power, but thirty years later it still hasn’t abated among the youth and those who came to adulthood during the 90s
capitalism os a helluva drug
Chinese here must mean “under the complete control of the People’s Republic of China at every step” (which may be more difficult than it sounds due to global supply chains and other factors). Taiwan, under Republic of China occupation, definitely doesn’t count (see the Hezbollah pager incident)