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As war now dominates the headlines, it’s critical to remember how we got here. In January, Iran’s security forces carried out one of the deadliest crackdowns in the country’s modern history and at the same time, a parallel war was unfolding online. This special report reveals how Tehran seeded the false narrative that the uprising was a CIA–Mossad plot and how far-left influencers, far-right voices, bot farms and foreign amplification networks helped spread it worldwide. Drawing on exclusive findings from the Network Contagion Research Institute and interviews with leading analysts, this investigation exposes how the regime exports propaganda to whitewash mass killings and shape global opinion — even as conflict escalates today.
