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Posted on 03/08/2026 3:05:56 PM PDT by Enterprise
A mysterious shortwave radio station began broadcasting strings of numbers in Farsi on the day Israel and the United States first struck Iran. It hasn't stopped since.
Numbers stations, as they’re known, have been used by intelligence services since World War I to communicate with agents in the field, but have become increasingly rare in the digital age. With the Internet shut down by authorities in Iran, this Cold War relic has found new life. According to one group of aficionados that tracks these age-old spy tools, it’s the first new numbers station in years.
A male voice in Farsi says, “Tavajoh! Tavajoh!” (Attention! Attention!) then reads groups of Persian numbers (like chahâr=4, shesh=6, hasht=8).
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Who is talking to whom remains the central mystery. Priyom noted that while early reception reports were consistent with a Middle Eastern transmitter, some direction-finding results suggest the signal may originate not from Iran but from somewhere closer to the Red Sea. That raises the possibility that an Israeli, Western, or Arab intelligence service may be broadcasting into Iran rather than out of it.
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It is a very secure way of transmitting messages.
Can be very usefull, A computer on the receiving end could make decoding a lot easier.
Sounds like a good guess to.me. The protests/riots in Iran abruptly ended when Iranian authorities shut down their Starlink. Makes sense to do the old switcheroo to old-fangled shortwave.
Shortwave and Enigma machines. Just, wow!
I would suppose that an AI that speaks Farsi could solve it.
Yep.
I bet Musk can sabotage it....but then that makes him a target....so...need a better idea.
It could be good guy to good guy transmissions. Instructions, warnings, or requests for information.
More seriously, the distribution and storage of keys or codebooks is the difficult part of this scheme.
One-time pads used to be the end all-be all of encryption, in like the 1980s. But with the quantum encr/decr of today, not so much anymore. It’s like having a dozen supercomputers working in parallel.
True, but it could be done with only one short innocent looking message - by phone or letter for instance. Just indicate a book, the figures are pages, rows, and word or letter numbers for instance.
My translation: “Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.”
I think you’re right. My translator gave me “pop goes the weasel.” I viewed that with doubt though.
I get that reference.
Actually, if that was broadcast on day one, it's appropriate.
The same Nellie Ohr who studed in Russia and perjured herself during the Russian collusion investigation.
John still has a long mustache
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput![
j.havenfarm wrote: “My translation: “Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.””
“Wound my heart with a monotonous languor.”
Broadcast on June 5, 1944, at 11:15 PM, this was the final call to action, signaling that the invasion would begin within 48 hours.
“The long sobs of the violins of autumn.”
Broadcast on June 1, 1944, this alerted Resistance groups that the invasion was expected within two weeks
When the One World gov denies your access to the interweb short wave will be all the rage. After that we’ll have to go back to written notes passed in dimly lit saloons.
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