{"id":10064,"date":"2026-10-29T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:00:33","slug":"irans-hidden-web-of-military-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/10\/29\/irans-hidden-web-of-military-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Hidden Web of Military Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long read from Reuters&#8217; Gavin Finch,\u00a0\u00a0Maggie Michael,\u00a0\u00a0Allison Martell\u00a0and\u00a0Marine Delrue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3myzcdw3b7c2v\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiccaegjucl3wnmrnf5clrcnhht6qy3qrkus2674sjvydnbfuymzre\"><p lang=\"en\">There&#39;s a hacking thread within the research for this Reuters&#39; story.  &#34;Hidden behind names starting with the letters MOD, for the Ministry of Defense, are more than 5,000 agencies that form a formidable financial and military machine.&#34;<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3myzcdw3b7c2v?ref_src=embed\">2026-10-29T12:47:06.489Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long read from Reuters&#8217; Gavin Finch,\u00a0\u00a0Maggie Michael,\u00a0\u00a0Allison Martell\u00a0and\u00a0Marine Delrue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,5],"tags":[201,740,60],"class_list":["post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-research","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10065,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions\/10065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}