Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

firefax 23 points 22 comments August 24, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)

pazimzadeh

terrible. pretty sure all major intelligence agencies do this to some degree

gcanyon

No matter how absurd the situation becomes, no matter how engaging the videos are, we should never be fooled into thinking Iran are the good guys. This is an unfortunate, ill-conceived war, but that doesn't clean Iran's hands.

tyjen

Reminds me of a recent story about a Norwegian teenager who traveled to the UK to perform a hitman job for the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organized crime group linked to Iran. The teenager received instructions from someone called "Agent 47." EDIT: Article for reference, https://archive.ph/xNSr2 .

newspaper1

Iran has nothing on Israel when it comes to interfering with other nations. This is simply propaganda and missing the elephant in the room (on purpose of course).

doodlebugging

Sounds like some of Trump's people are double-dipping Uncle Sam and the Ayatollah.

King-Aaron

The Israeli government has openly and publicly stated they will spread false information and propaganda directly through social media etc, which they heavily control all throughout the west, and have directly threatened western politicians that don't support their (often false) rhetoric, along with themselves conducting terrorist activities outside their own borders. I'm frankly quite tired of hearing about how terrible the Iranians are (and they are), because the people they are fighting are arguably worse. Iran are a threat to the middle east, but they're fighting nations that are actively a threat to the entire planet.

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