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Someone is jamming a mysterious Persian shortwave spy signal

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 01, 2026
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Twelve hours after the US and Israel began bombing Iran on February 28, 2026, a shortwave radio signal started broadcasting in Persian — a man’s voice, counting random numbers, followed by the word “tavajjoh” (attention) repeated three times. The signal, now designated V32 by the monitoring group Enigma2000, has been broadcasti…

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