Iran’s Panopticon Prison: AI, Gaz-a-Lago and MIGA
Most will say WWIII just started. I wrote on October 29th, 2021, “I feel angst as I write of my belief that we have already entered WWIII.” Today, I believe that Trump’s Bunker Buster hit on Iran’s nuclear facilities actually presages the end of WWIII, a never-declared, mostly invisible war. It is now drawing to a close. Far from uncertainty, those who oppose the US now have certainty. The US will use its formidable might decisively. Once the Iranians told the EU they had no intention of negotiating with the US, the President’s two-week window for negotiations collapsed into a “go now” order, especially since the UN had only just confirmed on June 19th that Iran was accelerating their production of enriched Uranium “up to 60% U-235”. Thus, the US will cast this situation as the inevitable result of Iran’s decision to escalate. No doubt, many will have an emotional reaction to this. This whole subject is so incendiary. However, to understand the probabilities of what comes next, we must set aside the emotional aspects and examine the diplomatic and digital aspects of America’s “Operation Midnight Hammer.”
First, were the Bunker Busters successful? If yes, that changes everything. If not, that changes everything. We’ll have to wait for that information. Was there even any nuclear material at any of the three nuclear sites? Iran says no nuclear material was at Isfahan. Saudi confirms this, too. Kuwait confirmed it as well. So far, there’s no report of nuclear fallout or radiation spikes, which is interesting. All must wait for the IAEA report now. For now, they are saying there is no radiation. Was all the Uranium removed? If yes, the US most likely knows exactly where it is, as we shall see.
Either way, Iran’s leadership, and the groups they sponsor, including the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah, are all now in the digital crosshairs of an AI-led digital war machine: Palantir’s Lavender, America’s Detachment 201, and Israel’s Unit 8200. Det 201 is described by the US Army as follows: “Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors. In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems. By bringing private-sector know-how into uniform, Det. 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force leaner, smarter, and more lethal. The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.” Reuters says, Israel’s “Unit 8200 is the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency or Britain's GCHQ, and is the largest single military unit in the Israel Defence Forces. It is descended from early codebreaking and intelligence units formed at the birth of the state of Israel in 1948.” These elite units are allowing the US to control Iran’s airspace and cloudspace. Iran may have shut down the internet to prevent the public from organizing a revolt against the leadership, but Elon Musk’s Starlink is operational and enabling connectivity for all Iranians.
Is all this about taking out the nuclear program or regime change? The answer is both. Starlink is not just for communication. It is also allowing the US to seed ideas amongst the Iranian population. The exiled Iranian Royal family members have been beaming into Iran for a few days now. Think about it. When was the last time you saw an American broadcast network, such as Fox News, broadcasting in a language other than English? Yet, there is the Exiled Crown Prince, HRH Reza Pahlavi of Iran, broadcasting away in Farsi on Fox and, of course, on YouTube. So, this is not about installing a puppet regime. Those days are gone. Instead, the public is being given access to the internet and drafted into the overthrow process. They can pick a new leader because the US already has total control of what happens in Iran. This seems to be in play. The Jerusalem Post, biased of course, just released this headline, “Iranian officials considering removing Ali Khamenei as leader”. But, this fits with JD Vance’s statement that the US is not at war with Iran but with Iran’s nuclear program. It also fits with Trump’s question, as reported by Reuters: “Trump asks why there would not be 'regime change' in Iran”. He wrote on Truth Social, "It’s not politically correct to use the term, “Regime Change,” but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!"
The key to understanding all this is that Iran is now a digital Panopticon prison, now that the US and Israel, and probably some other regional allies of these two, can detect a person’s location, communications, conversations, and state of mind at any time, anywhere. The Iranian leadership is effectively already in a digital prison. A person can now be tracked based on their walking gait, unique heartbeat, voice, the network of people in their circle, and their own behavioral patterns. There is no place to hide in a digital Panopticon prison.
For those who don’t know about the Panopticon, it was an idea put forward by the English jurist philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who proposed a "fundamental axiom"