СМИ США со ссылкой на источники сообщило, что к диверсии на газопроводе в Иране причастен Израиль. Также израильтяне устроили взрыв на химическом заводе, который власти объяснили аварией на производстве, и кибератаку на серверы министерства нефти, вызвавшую перебои в работе АЗС по всей стране.
Цели т.н. "теневой войны" Израиля - дестабилизация обстановки в Иране, которая может перерасти в массовые протесты в стране. Т.о., Тель-Авив хочет отвлечь Тегеран от событий на Ближнем востоке, в т.ч. поддержки проиранских сил, и сконцентрировать его внимание на внутренних проблемах.
Одним из самых ярких эпизодов т.н. "теневой войны" является убийство физика-ядерщика Мохсена Фахризаде-Махабади, считавшегося отцом-основателем программы по созданию ядерного оружия Ирана.
СМИ США со ссылкой на источники сообщило, что к диверсии на газопроводе в Иране причастен Израиль. Также израильтяне устроили взрыв на химическом заводе, который власти объяснили аварией на производстве, и кибератаку на серверы министерства нефти, вызвавшую перебои в работе АЗС по всей стране.
Цели т.н. "теневой войны" Израиля - дестабилизация обстановки в Иране, которая может перерасти в массовые протесты в стране. Т.о., Тель-Авив хочет отвлечь Тегеран от событий на Ближнем востоке, в т.ч. поддержки проиранских сил, и сконцентрировать его внимание на внутренних проблемах.
Одним из самых ярких эпизодов т.н. "теневой войны" является убийство физика-ядерщика Мохсена Фахризаде-Махабади, считавшегося отцом-основателем программы по созданию ядерного оружия Ирана.
Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed.
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