{"id":1770591,"date":"2022-12-09T11:28:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770591"},"modified":"2022-12-09T11:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:34:16","slug":"chinese-tech-is-helping-iran-crack-down-on-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-tech-is-helping-iran-crack-down-on-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Tech Is Helping Iran Crack Down on Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-tech-is-helping-iran-crack-down-on-protests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770591&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mr.cdn.ignitecdn.com\/client_assets\/humanevents_com\/media\/picture\/6392\/60a3\/f57c\/cd0e\/380e\/4e62\/original_Screen_Shot_2022-12-08_at_17.08.50.jpg?1670537379\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                As Iran&#8217;s nationwide protests press into a third month, it has come to light that another authortarian state has been providing technology to aid with their suppression of dissent.<\/p>\n<p>China has come to the aid of\u00a0Iran\u2019s ruling ayatollahs as they try to repress the country&#8217;s population by providing intelligence, spying and tracing technology, and even weapons, the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/foreigndesknews.com\/trending\/chinese-technology-aiding-islamic-republics-crackdown-on-protests\/\">Foreign Desk<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports.<\/p>\n<p>Following the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, while in police custody, a series of protests spread across the country. Amini was arrested by the Guidance Patrol for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic&#8217;s strict mandatory hijab law.<\/p>\n<p>The brutality with which these protests were met has only served to galvanize the movement, spreading to other cities <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/women-life-freedom-thousands-gather-in-vancouver-to-show-support-for-people-of-iran-following-killing-of-mahsa-amini\">across the world<\/a> and presenting Iran&#8217;s government with an increasingly difficult set of challenges..<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s estimated that hundreds of people have been killed by the regime during the protests, and thousands more arrested. On Thursday morning, Iran announced it had carried out its first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-63900099\">execution<\/a> in relation to the protests.<\/p>\n<p>China has also been met with criticism over its handling of its own protests, allowing the two countries&#8217; anti-western stance to serve as a bonding mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/humanevents.com\/2022\/11\/12\/apple-limits-airdrop-function-after-ccp-complains-feature-circumvents-censorship\">[RELATED:\u00a0Apple Limits AirDrop in China After Reports Dissidents Were Using the Function to Combat CCP Censorship]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Birds of a feather flock together,&#8221; said Jim Philips, a Senior Research Fellow at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy. &#8220;Both China and Iran are led by totalitarian ideological parties that see themselves as the vanguard of global anti-western revolutions. Despite ideological differences both are happy to cooperate against the U.S., which each has identified as an archenemy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philips sees this partnership only strengthening, stating that &#8220;Iran&#8217;s theocratic dictatorship, locked into a confrontation with the United States, is drifting into China\u2019s orbit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These evolving ties have strengthened Iran&#8217;s ability to resist sanctions, eased its isolation and aided its efforts to achieve regional hegemony,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s government has publicized plans to take advantage of specific technologies, &#8220;including AI-powered face recognition, to maintain regime stability and neutralize dissent,&#8221; according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/analysis\/2022\/12\/01\/targeting-tiandy\/\">Foundation of Defense of Democracies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the center of this partnership between the two regimes is Tiandy, the Chinese technology firm that has been aiding China&#8217;s repressive tactics and that is now helping the Iranian regime to monitor landline, mobile and internet communications.<\/p>\n<p>Other technologies being utilized by the regime include\u00a0several key social control products, ranging from surveillance video recorders to thermal imaging cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Iran begins to show signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-iran-abolishes-morality-police-considers-changing-hijab-laws-after-months-of-protests\">loosening<\/a> its grip on the protesters, the continued use of Chinese technology to quell dissent will always be met with criticism from the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Iran&#8217;s nationwide protests press into a third month, it has come to light that another authortarian state has been providing technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,4117,7271,7272,3823,3970,3819,4989],"class_list":["post-1770591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-chinese","tag-crack","tag-helping","tag-iran","tag-protests","tag-report","tag-tech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}