Fake Claim: Iranian media ‘Kayhan’ alleges Indian Software aided Israeli Spying without evidence

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Iran vs. Israel hostilities continue. In this conflict, a user on X posted a claim against India. The user from the account ‘sabra_the’ posted that Iranian media is reporting a big revelation that “most Indian software being used in sensitive areas in Iran is Israeli software, transmitting real-time information back to Israel.”

Leakage information:

Civil registry record

ID and passport information

Airport security and logistic systems

Sources state that: “Israel is fully aware of who goes in and who goes out of Iran.”

JUST WOW, WOW

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Fact Check

The DFRAC team performed a web search to find the concerned statement and identified the claim as being FAKE. We tried to find any other credible media source to support the statement, but to no avail. We also checked whether the Iranian government had made any official statement regarding the same and there is nothing that has been made. We also checked the official website of the Indian Embassy in Iran, but found no press release concerning the claim there as well.

An online news site, The Week, published an article. The article is titled “’Indian software helped Israel gather sensitive data’: Bizarre claim by Iranian hardline newspaper Kayhan”

The media report has also clearly stated that: the Iranian newspaper ‘Kayhan’, where the viral statement was first published, has provided the statement without any evidence.

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According to the report, the newspaper then makes a bizarre claim that some of these programmers were in touch with Israel via Elon Musk’s Starlink, which is yet to start operations in the country. 

This is not the first time any allegation has been published against India in the context of the Iran-Israel war. DFRAC exposed such viral allegations before, also, which you can see here, here and here.

Conclusion

Thus, the absence of facts to prove the viral statement shows that the claim is FAKE.