Shortwave radio listeners around the world have reported hearing mystery broadcasts in Persian on a new 'numbers station' ...

There are many reasons why old spying methods like number stations are used in an era of encrypted messaging apps, satellites ...

The regime is overmatched militarily, but still has tools for returning fire.

Numbers stations - those ghostly shortwave broadcasts where synthetic voices read strings of digits into the void - have been sending one-way coded messages to intelligence agents since World War I.

Iran's latest internet blackout has lasted more than 14 days, connectivity monitor Netblocks said Friday. The nature of the ...

Cold War-Era Number Broadcast Reappears in Iran Conflict U.S. employs shortwave radio to contact Iranian spies amid communication blackouts ...

The mysterious Persian-language transmission began about 12 hours after the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. It was jammed five days later. Is it a coded message for US agents in ...

The second season of The Divided Dial, a series by WNYC's On the Media, explores the ideological battles playing out on shortwave radio, which can reach across continents. NINA MOINI: We've been ...