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May 22, 2023 in Analysis, Iran

Iranian Companies provide Facial Recognition services to government and security services

Journalists and human rights activists have highlighted that the Iranian government is using foreign facial recognition technology to enforce hijab laws and arrest protestors. The government has not acquired this technology from Chinese companies like Tiandy and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. alone, however– it also…
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April 30, 2023 in Iran, Reports

Iran Blocks Access To Domestic Websites, Decreasing Transparency To International Community

While the Islamic Republic has drawn international condemnation for restricting Iranians’ access to major portions of the international internet, key government and private-sector websites have quietly been made unavailable to those outside of Iran (so-called “geo-blocking”). This development makes it more difficult for journalists, human…
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April 29, 2023 in Conferences

Engineers Of The Human Soul: China’s Propaganda Work System

INTRODUCTION: Since the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) founding in 1921, the propaganda work system has been one of its chief instruments for influencing and controlling the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) information space. As a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party, propaganda work is inherent to the functioning…
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Iranian Companies provide Facial Recognition services to government and security services

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Journalists and human rights activists have highlighted that the Iranian government is using foreign facial recognition technology to enforce hijab laws and arrest protestors. The government has not acquired this technology from Chinese companies like Tiandy and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. alone, however– it also…
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Iran Blocks Access To Domestic Websites, Decreasing Transparency To International Community

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While the Islamic Republic has drawn international condemnation for restricting Iranians’ access to major portions of the international internet, key government and private-sector websites have quietly been made unavailable to those outside of Iran (so-called “geo-blocking”). This development makes it more difficult for journalists, human…
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Will Iran’s Conventional Army Join the Drone Export Game in Ukraine and Beyond?

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Coverage regarding Iran’s growing exports of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including those recently sent to Russia for use in Ukraine, have generally focused on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC, an unconventional force, is known for its support for militants and non-state actors…
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Government-Sponsored Research Centers Highlight Iranian Universities’ Military Ties, Foreign Collaboration

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The Iranian military and security apparatus’ relationships with Iranian universities extends beyond the handful of schools sanctioned by the US and the EU for facilitating weapons development-related research. Among the hundreds of Iranian government-funded research centers within Iran’s universities, at least three have received funding…

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December 18, 2021 in News

EXOVERA’ s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis (CIRA) closely studies China’s military industrial complex

EXOVERA'S Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis (CIRA) closely studies China’s military industrial complex – in particular, Chinese investment in U.S. technology and the flow of U.S. capital into China that wittingly or unwittingly advances the objectives of the Peoples Liberation Army. Commenting in today’s…
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November 18, 2021 in News

SOSi Hosts Conference on Chinese Communist Party Marking the 100th Anniversary of the Party and a Watershed Moment in U.S.-China Relations

RESTON, Va. (November 18, 2021) – Earlier this week SOSi’s Center for Research and Analysis (CIRA) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted the "Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at 100 Conference" to assess the CCP’s ideology, structure, and activities in both China…
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September 16, 2021 in News

SOSi Launches Open Source Analysis Center to Advise U.S. Fortune 500 Companies and Inform U.S. Government China, Iran, and Russia Policy

SOSi formally announced the opening of its Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis (CIRA), established to provide analysis, investigative support, and data services to the U.S. government and Fortune 500 companies on a range of issues from cybersecurity risk and foreign military affairs to artificial…
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June 23, 2021 in News

CIRA’s Joe McReynolds Named a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations

RESTON, Va. (June 23, 2021) – SOSi announced today that Joe McReynolds, a China analyst with its Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis, was named a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is one of the nation’s…
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