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00:30Profiles spent months building up credibility with local audiences before shifting narratives
00:35when the U.S. and Israel's offensive against Iran escalated in late February.
00:40After the war started, they completely pivoted to posting pro-Iran footage of Iranian strikes
00:48on enemies of Iran, so Israel and other places, I think maybe Saudi Arabia as well.
00:56The content included posts glorifying the deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as AI-generated
01:02images claiming to show the destruction of U.S. bases in the Middle East.
01:07Researchers found that these accounts were affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary
01:11Guard Corps, an elite paramilitary unit which has been accused of peddling foreign influence
01:16operations.
01:18Two subsets of accounts were uncovered, one group claiming to be from Scotland and England,
01:22and another from Ireland and Northern Ireland.
01:25Spanish-language profiles claiming to be based in Texas, California, Venezuela and Chile carried
01:31out a similar operation, according to researchers.
01:34Many of the profiles claim to be women, but in reality use stolen or AI-generated images as
01:40a ruse.
01:41Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, says it shut down thousands of IRGC-affiliated
01:46accounts across 19 countries between February and April.
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