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Iranians Use an App to Map Military Bases and Missile Sites—and So Does Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY This piece explores the innovative use of a crowdsourced app named Mahsa Alert, developed by Iranian American activist Ahmad Ahmadian. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IranResistanceMilitaryAppIntelligenceMahsa AlertAhmad AhmadianCrowdsourcingGeotagging

Places mentioned

Iran
"There is a website where ordinary Iranians can geotag key military facilities directly onto the map of their country."
Israel
"And since at least the start of the war, Israeli intelligence has been using it to help identify targets such as missile launch sites."
United States
"Ahmad Ahmadian, 35, an Iranian American whose activism saw him detained and imprisoned in solitary confinement before he came to the United States in 2011 as a political refugee."
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