Jomana Karadsheh
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They said that this is very much your Russia-Wagner sort of
model that you know it's their playbook right that's being um used by the iranians now and it sounded pretty crazy i have to say at the beginning it just looked like too obvious where they're saying we're recruiting we're the iranian intelligence do you want to come and help us if you do just click start and so we myself and um our producer flo
We went undercover online as two young London Telegram users.
So Flo starts a conversation with this group, this channel called VIP Employment.
And they're offering to hire high paid agents for the Iranian intelligence.
Absolutely.
You've got the flag of the Islamic Republic.
You've got, yeah, with the advertising saying that, you know, they're going after, you know, they're targeting Zionist entities.
They are offering jobs to, you know, people who are willing to help and assist.
I mean, it's so open.
It's out there.
And so Flo starts a conversation with them.
And the first question you get is, where are you?
Which city are you in?
How old are you?
What are your capabilities, right?
So they want to know more about you.
I've heard from some experts that this is about building some sort of a database, right?
Where they've got that, they've got, you know, different people around the world they can use.
In Flo's case, it was, they asked her to print out two posters of