{"id":9547,"date":"2026-04-28T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9547"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:24:36","slug":"iran-digital-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/04\/28\/iran-digital-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Digital Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This surfaced this morning (no doubt it is being tracked, or has potential as a honeypot).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See Jason Farrell and Lynette Nusbacher&#8217;s discussion on Sky News:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mkktdx4f5c2w\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreihmpz22n344i26tqoe46n2wcfe6d5uquom3q7hh7gd27j5nsjsoyi\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">Report on the use of group chat by Iranian networks &#8230;<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mkktdx4f5c2w?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mkktdx4f5c2w?ref_src=embed\">28 April 2026 at 15:48<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mkk7htu4xk2w\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiancoonxvvtxrgjtbhqqjcqazace6oml23y7vqejq7sq7z3kexdkm\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">Iranian embassy calls on expats in UK to &#x27;sacrifice&#x27; their lives &#x27;for the homeland&#x27; in new campaign www.lbc.co.uk\/article\/iran&#8230;<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mkk7htu4xk2w?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mkk7htu4xk2w?ref_src=embed\">28 April 2026 at 09:53<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This surfaced this morning (no doubt it is being tracked, or has potential as a honeypot). See Jason Farrell and Lynette Nusbacher&#8217;s discussion on Sky News: Report on the use of group chat by Iranian networks &#8230; [image or embed] &mdash; Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 28 April 2026 at 15:48 Also see: Iranian embassy calls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286,536,187],"tags":[201,91,189],"class_list":["post-9547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-iran-internet","category-radicalisation","tag-iran","tag-iran-internet","tag-radicalisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547","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=9547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}