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South Koreans Arrested in Iran on Smuggling Charges, Seoul Says

December 2, 2025

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Iran’s state TV says Tehran has received a draft U

Iran’s state TV says Tehran has received a draft US-Iran framework that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days in exchange for a US military withdrawal. A final deal could become a binding UN resolution.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry says an Iranian ant

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry says an Iranian anti-ship missile likely struck a Korean cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month. Tehran denies involvement, with its Seoul ambassador stating Iran “took no part” in the attack.

By David Jeans NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters) – As U.S

By David Jeans
NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters) – As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a conclusion: The Pentagon should be paying more for access to their satellite Wi-Fi network.

Within weeks of the United States launching its bombing campaign, SpaceX executives met Pentagon officials and argued the military had been paying about $5,000 for connection per terminal while effectively using a higher tier of service worth closer to $25,000, according to two sources familiar with the matter and Pentagon documents reviewed by Reuters.

The disagreement over Starlink’s use on LUCAS suicide drones – a cheap U.S. model comparable to Iran’s Shahed that can circle over a target area before diving to detonate on impact – is part of increasing tensions between SpaceX and the Pentagon over Starlink pricing in recent months, according to interviews with five people familiar with the matter and the documents.

The Pentagon, which is seeking to help Iranian citizens bypass government-imposed communications blackouts, has also been at odds with SpaceX over pricing for a plan to provide the populace direct-to-cell connections with Starlink akin to 5G service, two of the sources said.

The ongoing disputes, which have not previously been reported, underscore how the Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX is handing Musk greater leverage over a critical layer of U.S. national security – at a time when SpaceX is seeking to boost revenue ahead of an IPO next month that could be among the biggest in history.

Unlike consumer Starlink terminals available at stores including Walmart, SpaceX sells a military-specific version called Starshield to the Pentagon under a 2023 agreement. Starshield terminals can connect to both commercial Starlink satellites and a separate, more secure constellation, also called Starshield, according to a person familiar with the matter.

May 26 (Reuters) – The internet monitoring group N

May 26 (Reuters) – The internet monitoring group Netblocks said in a post on X on Tuesday that live data showed partial restoration of internet connectivity in Iran.

Iranian state media reported on Monday that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had issued an order to reopen international internet ‌access, after a near-90-day blackout in the wake of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

(Reporting by Ahmed Elimam; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens May 26 (Reuters) –

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens
May 26 (Reuters) – Iranian hackers were responsible for a disruptive computer breach in March that forced Los Angeles’ transit system to shut down parts of its network, Israeli researchers say.

The saboteurs stole at least 700 gigabytes of emails, backups, and other files from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA), according to Gambit Security, a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm that said it discovered the misappropriated data after it was inadvertently exposed online.

In a report published on Tuesday, the company said a digital trail of evidence tied the server where the data was discovered to a previously known hacking operation that Israeli officials and researchers attributed to Tehran.

Iran‘s mission to the United Nations did not return messages seeking comment. Israel’s National Cyber Directorate did not return messages.

The Los Angeles transit authority didn’t respond to questions about the findings. In a statement shared last month, its officials said they were working with law enforcement and cyber specialists as they brought their systems back online. “Attribution is part of the investigation and we will not speculate,” the statement said.

Digital security specialists have suspected an Iranian hand in the operation against the LACMTA ever since responsibility was claimed by an obscure pro-Iran outfit calling itself Ababil of Minab. The group’s name refers to the bombing of a girls’ school in the Iranian city of Minab that officials there say killed more than 175 children and teachers, and its rhetoric and modus operandi are characteristic of self-styled vigilante hacker groups that U.S. and Israeli researchers allege are cut-outs for Iranian spies.

Eyal Sela, Gambit’s director of threat intelligence, said a connection between Ababil and the Iranian state “has been a working assumption.”

“What our research adds is the forensic evidence to support it,” he said.

By Nazenin Ansari May 26 (Democracy Asia) - Iran

By Nazenin Ansari
May 26 (Democracy Asia) - Iran has been under an internet blackout since the war began at the end of February. This follows an earlier 21-day blackout in January during the nationwide uprising against the Islamic Republic. Together, the two shutdowns mean Iranians have been cut off from the global internet for roughly 72 per cent of the year so far. As @nazeninansari reports, this suggests that the core conflict in Iran may not be between Tehran and foreign adversaries, but between the Islamic Republic and Iranian society itself.

The state’s internet blackouts, mass repression, and militarisation of public life are widely seen as signs not of strength, but of a state struggling with legitimacy and governing through fear. The January uprising, dubbed the Sun and Lion Revolution, erupted in key business hubs and quickly spread across the country. In response, state militia and their proxies pursued unarmed protesters with military-grade weapons and snipers. They removed the wounded and the dead from the streets, homes and hospitals. Families had to pay large sums to retrieve bodies; some still have not been able to locate their loved ones. This has been described by some observers as mass killing followed by an attempt to erase evidence of its scale.

Despite the blackout, a network of Iranian doctors and medical staff inside and outside the country produced one of the most detailed early casualty estimates. Led by Professor Amir Mobarez-Parasta, the team used information from hospitals and emergency centres in Iran, along with hospital data and statistical modeling from comparable conflict zones.

Continues on:
https://democracyasia.com/articles/irans-blackout-state

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