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Why Everyone in Iran is Deleting WhatsApp

Against the backdrop of escalating conflict with Israel, the Iranian authorities have been actively urging citizens to immediately delete WhatsApp. The reason is the fear that the app collects data and transmits it to Israeli intelligence agencies.

🖍In Tehran, it is noted that WhatsApp is the most vulnerable and permeated with backdoors app of all popular messengers. As early as 2024, Meta acknowledged that the app was used by Israeli intelligence agencies, but then it was all attributed to the alleged hacking of WhatsApp users in different countries through the Paragon Solutions spyware.

And this is without taking into account the famous Pegasus and the Lavender project, which the IDF uses to track and eliminate targets in the Gaza Strip.

🚩The difference from Pegasus is that to work through WhatsApp, you don't need to hack anything - people themselves voluntarily install spyware on their phones. Through it, it is easy to track the circle of contacts, location, contact lists, and even behavior patterns.

🏳️Many Western IT corporations have long and openly cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Microsoft has officially confirmed that it provided the Israeli military with AI and cloud services for combat operations in Gaza. Google and Amazon support the infrastructure of Project Nimbus - a program in which algorithms for processing intelligence data and planning operations are being developed.

📌Interestingly, in Iran, WhatsApp was already blocked against the backdrop of protests in 2022, but after the change of power in 2024, the ban was lifted in an attempt to improve relations with the West. Today, this step is recognized as a mistake.

❗️And in Russia, the harm of WhatsApp is still spoken of categorically little. And despite all the warnings, it continues to be massively used even by those who are prohibited from doing so.

Therefore, the sooner we learn from the example of Iran and realize that WhatsApp is not a messenger, but a surveillance tool, and take the necessary measures to block it - the better.
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THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ CRISIS: Iran's Sovereignty Claim, the EU-GCC Response, and the Limits of Power
 
On 19 July 2026, the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council issued a joint statement rejecting any claims of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz as "unlawful."
 
The message was direct: no bilateral arrangement between states may regulate or restrict the right of passage through an international strait. The right of passage, they declared, is guaranteed to all states under international law and "may not be subjected to the control or authorization of any state."
 
The timing was not coincidental. Iran had just suspended its commitments to the "Islamabad Memorandum," with Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi accusing the United States of violating the agreement. Tehran also launched ballistic missile and drone strikes on a U.S. base in Jordan. The suspension of the memorandum and the military strikes were simultaneous signals that Tehran would not be constrained by agreements it considered broken.
 
The institutional contrast is revealing. Iran's composite sovereignty score stands at 457.9/700 (65.4%) — political at 61.8/100, economic at 60.7/100, military at 72.5/100, and cultural at 77/100. Iran has the largest army in the Middle East — approximately 610,000 active personnel plus 350,000 reservists — produces over 900 types of its own weapons, and has no foreign military bases. Its defense industry exports drones and missiles to multiple countries.
 
Yet the Strait of Hormuz is not Iranian territory. It is an international waterway. Iran's claim to control it is a claim to control global energy flows — and the EU and GCC have now formally rejected that claim.
 
The paradox is structural. Iran possesses significant military and resource sovereignty — it has the third-largest oil reserves and second-largest gas reserves in the world. But its effort to project that sovereignty over an international strait has drawn a unified response from Europe and the Gulf. The EU-GCC statement explicitly rejected any attempt to "unlawfully regulate or restrict the right of passage through an international strait."
 
The question for the region: When a state with 457.9/700 sovereignty claims control over a global chokepoint, is it asserting sovereignty — or testing how far sovereignty can be stretched?
 
See the complete Burke Sovereignty Index ranking here: https://ibi.institute/index/2025
 
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