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Iranians confronted evergreen scrambling gps:
The Iranian driver Farshad Fooladi is struggling to orient himself in the capital Tehran. Therefore, where the navigation services remain strongly disrupted several weeks after the end of the war between Iran and Israel.
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“I could not work for weeks,” said the 35 -year -old man, a driver at Snapp, an Iranian equivalent from Uber.
To move. Moreover, he says, “you have to have a good memory of the routes, or know the city well”, megalopolis of some nine million inhabitants.
Since the Supprise of Israel in June. In addition, which sparked a deadly 12-day war, the global positioning system by satellite (GPS, American) and other iranians confronted evergreen scrambling gps local navigation services have experienced unprecedented disturbances in Iran.
The authorities scrambled them, invoking “security and military reasons”, without more details.
Online taxi applications, delivery platforms and even basic mapping services like Google Maps have since paralyzed.
In many regions. Nevertheless, especially around Tehran, Iranians find that their position indicated on the GPS is in fact hundreds of kilometers from their real location.
Mr. Therefore, Fooladi explains that he can only take customers who know their journey. and that his income has thus melted in relation to before the war.
Iran has long used the scrambling of GPS. used in particular by drones, around its sensitive military sites, but recent disturbances are distinguished by their unique scale and duration.
“Double cutting edge”
Difficult to say how long these measures will last. what consequences they will have on the economy, already at half mast due in particular to decades of sanctions.
iranians confronted evergreen scrambling gps
In the meantime. an Iranian Neshan Iranian Application of Navigation Application has already reported a 15% drop in daily active users and 20% of the navigation activity.
Local media Khabar Online has described these disruptions as “double -edged sword”. warning that they harm the digital economy and compromise public security, especially for emergency interventions.
For his part. the newspaper reformer Ham Mihan, quoting the former Minister of Communications, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, also believes that the breakdown of the navigation services is “expensive”.
The vice-minister of communications. Ehsan Chitsaz, also recognized that these disturbances had harmed businesses and also aroused “distrust and despair” within society.
And this while the Iranian authorities have already been filtering internet for years. and even imposed harsh restrictions during the war with Israel, many websites and applications becoming partially or even completely inaccessible.
Given the significant impact of the scrambling measures on the lives of iranians confronted evergreen scrambling gps citizens, Mr. Chitsaz suggested that Iran will adopt alternatives to GPS.
In a declaration in July in the daily Ham Mihan. he notably suggested the Chinese satellite system Beidou which stands out as a global GPS competitor.
According to him. Iran is preparing a program so that certain location services, in transport, agriculture and the Internet of objects, gradually migrate from GPS to Beidou.
“Uncertain future”
However, experts point out that replacing the GPS will be complex.
“This would require significant. costly infrastructure,” said Amir Rashidi, of the American group Miaan, recalling that Iran is currently “extremely vulnerable in cyberspace”.
Cybersecurity experts also doubt that the scrambling of GPS services have effective defensive effects.
Affirming that Iran was about to have the atomic bomb. Israel, an ally of the United States, attacked it on June 13, bombing hundreds of military and nuclear sites and killing the highest officers in the iranians confronted evergreen scrambling gps country as well as nuclear scientists.
Iran. which denies wanting to make the atomic weapon, but defends its right to a civil nuclear program, had retaliated with missile and drone fire to Israel.
While the Israeli authorities have not excluded other strikes on Iran, Iranians do not hide their concern.
“We do not know if war will explode again or what will happen next (…) The future is uncertain,” said Mohammad Hossein Ghanbari, 32 -year -old Snapp driver.
Iranians confronted evergreen scrambling gps
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