Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete

Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete

After more than 15 years of draconian measures, culminating in an ongoing internet shutdown, the Iranian regime seems to be staggering toward its digital surveillance endgame.

New documents reveal IRGC's 8-year plan to take over Iran

Emily Schrader reveals leaked August 2025 regime documents describing an eight-year blueprint to cut Iranians off from the global internet, force them onto state-run platforms, criminalize VPN use and supercharge mass surveillance with AI, while allegedly leaning on Chinese-style infrastructure and capabilities tied by experts to Huawei. You’ll learn how “temporary” shutdowns become institutional control, why the regime wants its cyberspace auth…

Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

“CCTV networks, facial-recognition systems, applications designed to capture or log private user messages, and systems assessing citizens’ lifestyle patterns and behavioral profiles collectively provide the Islamic Republic’s security agencies with the means for broad and precise monitoring of the population,” the analysis says. Put another way, Holistic Resilience’s Mahdi Saremifar says simply, “They want to have a centralized system that monit…