“Iran Update, February 11, 2025,” Institute for the Study of War, 2-11-25.

Give praise when warranted, even to the Supreme Leader, because here (they shouldn’t have been prosecuted) a full pardon was deserved.  “Iran pardons journalists who reported woman’s death that triggered unrest,” Reuters, 2-11-25.

Mehr’s version.  “Iran orbited ten satellites in past years,” Mehr, 2-11-25.

“Iran’s Dangerous Push To Become An AI Superpower,” MEMRI, 2-11-25.  “According to findings released by Google on January 29, 2025, Iranian groups are using the company’s Gemini AI chatbot for researching defense organizations to target with hacking attempts, to generate content in English, Hebrew, and Farsi to be used in phishing campaigns, and other purposes.  For Iran, AI is an inexpensive path to power. It is already using it for cyberattacks and influence operations abroad, and to upgrade its drones and ballistic missiles, deploy swarms of unmanned watercraft, surveil and repress its citizens, and control its borders. Alarmingly, it could now be exploring AI’s potential nuclear applications.  …  The most dangerous potential of Iranian mastery of AI is for military uses and nuclear weapons technology. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said in January 2021 that the organization was striving to use the quantum technology it had been developing since 2016 for AI.”