On Sunday March 1st at UTC 18.11, shortwave radio-hams in France and Italy noticed that a new ‘Numbers’ station had begun broadcasting in Farsi on 7910 KHz. The broadcasts began the day after the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran by US and Israeli forces on Saturday 28th February.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErmbTpxAM7Q

Numbers stations are enigmatic radio broadcasts that consist of nothing but a human voice reciting cryptic groups of numbers. They are widely believed to be communication channels used by intelligence agencies to transmit instructions to field-agents in foreign countries. The numbers are copied down by agents equipped with shortwave receivers, and decoded with the help of a one-time pad. Provided that the one-time pads are never reused, the encryption is unbreakable.

Numbers stations have been extensively used by western intelligence agencies from the Cold War period onwards, but Iran has no history of ever having used them up to now - which makes the appearance of a brand new Farsi language Numbers station all the more remarkable.

Article 111 of the Iranian constitution provides detailed instructions on the succession plan to be followed in the event of the death of the Supreme Leader, but the decapitation attack carried out by Israel and the US appears to have killed many of the Iranian officials who would have been in charge of carrying out the succession plan. This raises the possibility that the activation of this new Farsi Numbers radio station might be part of a Doomsday contingency plan.

Faced with the death of their leader and the imminent destruction of their state, Iran’s surviving military leaders have already launched widespread and indiscriminate missile and drone attacks against infrastructure and civilian targets in many neighbouring countries of the middle-east. The worry must now be that the new Numbers station might be sending instructions to activate whatever sleeper agents and terrorist assets Iran possesses throughout the whole of the middle-east and Europe.

This could mean not only a sudden spate of fresh gun attacks in western capitals, but the nightmare  scenario of a ‘Fourth Protocol’ attack ( c.f. the 1984 Fredrick Forsyth novel) involving chemical, biological or improvised radiological weapons. Not for the first time I fear that the US may have underestimated its opponent.

5 hours ago, toucana said:

This could mean not only a sudden spate of fresh gun attacks in western capitals, but the nightmare  scenario of a ‘Fourth Protocol’ attack ( c.f. the 1984 Fredrick Forsyth novel) involving chemical, biological or improvised radiological weapons. Not for the first time I fear that the US may have underestimated its opponent.

Funny, I had just posted something gloomy and Forsythian on another site this morning, re suitcase bombs in midtown Manhattan. Yep, the US has set up at least a couple more generations of America loathing, and are no doubt mobilizing terror assets as we speak. The Turnip regime is beyond stupid. Though, as someone noted elsewhere, this could also be a chess tactic for the MAGAists to declare a national emergency and take over the Congressional elections in November to prevent "fraud" and so on.

I didn't really know much about numbers stations, so you are again one of my main TIL posters. Thank you.