Iran News and Discussions

[A_Gupta]

About Iran: the ceasefire is likely temporary. How temporary depends on how badly Iran uranium enrichment capabilities are degraded. It also depends on political factors in the US and Israel.

[Vayutuvan]

Surely we can find the Congress election manifesto which has this?

Yes, correct. I saw the story in India Today when PV saab was forced to open up India, IIRC. I cross checked with people who would have been in the know.

One thing I am sure of now is that there was a story in one of the very popular news magazines and my vague memory is that it was it was India Today. When did Illustrated Weekly stop publishing? It could have been that too.

[Vayutuvan]

About Iran: the ceasefire is likely temporary. How temporary depends on how badly Iran uranium enrichment capabilities are degraded. It also depends on political factors in the US and Israel.

Vacuously true.

[Vayutuvan]

Vayutuvanji
Did not Sam Pitgaya use Unkil's old equipment and remodel as CDOT and make money in the interim!!
Also Pitgaya has been involved in many guplas noo!

That came later. AFAIK, he put together a capable group who did develop the switch from ground up. I know a few. They are no slouches. He is lot more technical than NRN sir. NRN's only innovation is 24x7 development model and slave driving. Pitroda is somewhat similar to APJ Abdul Kalam ji.

[Amber G.]

Iran president signs law suspending cooperation with IAEA

Welp, things just keep sliding. Iran officially suspended cooperation with the IAEA after the recent Israeli and U.S. strikes — and now Grossi (IAEA chief) might get banned from even entering the country. His request to visit bombed nuclear sites? Flat-out rejected.

What’s wild is how much easier it became for hardliners to take the wheel after Trump pulled out of the JCPOA. That move totally sidelined the moderates — now it’s mostly the more radical voices calling the shots in Tehran. Any chance of balanced diplomacy got shoved to the back of the shelf (if it was still there).

[Vayutuvan]

As long as Iran does not believe in the right of Israel to exist, no amount diplomacy (isn't all diplomacy balanced by definition?! ) will work. They will string the world along till they get nucs. Now is as good time as any to have called their double game and bluff. It is a tad too late in fact. That should have been done before giving them pallets of cash.

[ricky_v]

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025 ... technology

Most recently, the United States-Israeli attacks on Iran demonstrated not just new strategies of drone deployment and infiltration but also new vulnerabilities. During the 12-day conflict, Iran and vessels in the waters of the Gulf experienced repeated disruptions of GPS signal.

“At times, disruptions are created on this [GPS] system by internal systems, and this very issue has pushed us toward alternative options like BeiDou,” Ehsan Chitsaz, deputy communications minister, told Iranian media in mid-July. He added that the government was developing a plan to switch transportation, agriculture and the internet from GPS to BeiDou.

Iran’s decision to explore adopting China’s navigation satellite system may appear at first glance to be merely a tactical manoeuvre. Yet, its implications are far more profound. This move is yet another indication of a major global realignment.

For decades, the West, and the US in particular, have dominated the world’s technological infrastructure from computer operating systems and the internet to telecommunications and satellite networks.

This has left much of the world dependent on an infrastructure it cannot match or challenge. This dependency can easily become vulnerability. Since 2013, whistleblowers and media investigations have revealed how various Western technologies and schemes have enabled illicit surveillance and data gathering on a global scale – something that has worried governments around the world.

Iran’s possible shift to BeiDou sends a clear message to other nations grappling with the delicate balance between technological convenience and strategic self-defence: The era of blind, naive dependence on US-controlled infrastructure is rapidly coming to an end. Nations can no longer afford to have their military capabilities and vital digital sovereignty tied to the satellite grid of a superpower they cannot trust.

This sentiment is one of the driving forces behind the creation of national or regional satellite navigation systems, from Europe’s Galileo to Russia’s GLONASS, each vying for a share of the global positioning market and offering a perceived guarantee of sovereign control.

GPS was not the only vulnerability Iran encountered during the US-Israeli attacks. The Israeli army was able to assassinate a number of nuclear scientists and senior commanders in the Iranian security and military forces. The fact that Israel was able to obtain their exact locations raised fears that it was able to infiltrate telecommunications and trace people via their phones.


On June 17 as the conflict was still raging, the Iranian authorities urged the Iranian people to stop using the messaging app WhatsApp and delete it from their phones, saying it was gathering user information to send to Israel. Whether this appeal was linked to the assassinations of the senior officials is unclear, but Iranian mistrust of the app run by US-based corporation Meta is not without merit.

Cybersecurity experts have long been sceptical about the security of the app. Recently, media reports have revealed that the artificial intelligence software Israel uses to target Palestinians in Gaza is reportedly fed data from social media. Furthermore, shortly after the end of the attacks on Iran, the US House of Representatives moved to ban WhatsApp from official devices.

For Iran and other countries around the world, the implications are clear: Western platforms can no longer be trusted as mere conduits for communication; they are now seen as tools in a broader digital intelligence war.

Tehran has already been developing its own intranet system, the National Information Network, which gives more control over internet use to state authorities. Moving forward, Iran will likely expand this process and possibly try to emulate China’s Great Firewall.

By seeking to break with Western-dominated infrastructure, Tehran is definitively aligning itself with a growing sphere of influence that fundamentally challenges Western dominance. This partnership transcends simple transactional exchanges as China offers Iran tools essential for genuine digital and strategic independence.