By Treadstone 71 & Dancho Danchev
The digital crowd surrounding Reza Pahlavi is not a movement; it is a mirage. For years, analysts have suspected that the massive online support for the exiled Prince relied on automation. Today, Treadstone 71 and lead analyst Dancho Danchev release a comprehensive forensic audit that transforms that suspicion into mathematical certainty.
Our report, “Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour: Deceptive Amplification,” analyzes over 70 million data points to expose a symbiotic deception. We found that the Pahlavi network constructs a “Hollow Army” of bots to simulate popularity, while the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus actively infiltrates and steers it.
The 60-Second Heartbeat Authentic human behavior contains chaos and jitter. This network contains neither. We identified a core cluster of 356,000 accounts created with machine-perfect precision. Every single intra-day creation gap falls on an exact 60-second multiple. This is not the pulse of a revolution; it is the ticking of a cron job.
LocationGate: The Call is Coming from Inside the House Perhaps the most damning finding is “LocationGate.” Leveraging X’s country-of-origin data, we traced aggressive “monarchist” profiles directly to Tehran. These accounts operated using the “Iran Android App”—a connection method requiring state-issued “White SIMs” for unfiltered internet access. The regime creates the radical slogans, the Pahlavi bots amplify them, and the State uses the resulting noise to discredit genuine dissent as foreign-controlled.
Why This Matters This architecture treats the Iranian people not as agents of change, but as programmable assets. It misallocates international attention, suffocates organic leadership, and hands the Regime a perfect weapon to delegitimize the opposition.
Read the Full Forensic Audit We invite intelligence professionals, journalists, and policymakers to examine the evidence firsthand.
