Random Numbers, Persian Code: A Mysterious Signal Transfixes Radio Sleuths -- And Intelligence Experts
Summary
The article documents a Persian-language numbers station (V32) that began transmitting after US-Israel airstrikes on Iran, later jammed, drawing amateur-radio sleuths and intelligence experts. It explains how numbers stations work with one-time pads, outlines competing origin theories, and situates the signal in Cold War-era cryptology and modern political tension.