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

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

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 ...

Numbers stations are mysterious, unsettling, and one of the strangest things you'll ever hear. They're shortwave radio stations that send coded messages to undercover spies all over the world—an odd ...

The station — first spotted by short-wave trackers who christened it V32 — is the first to have been identified broadcasting in Farsi in a quarter of a century. One briefly went live during the US ...

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

The broadcasts on short-wave radio from somewhere in Europe appear to be coded messages in Farsi to agents on the ground, echoing the Cold War.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Numbers stations are a mysterious phenomenon of shortwave radio dating back to the Cold War. The radio signals are secret messages ...

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Numbers stations are a mysterious phenomenon of shortwave radio dating back to the Cold War. The radio signals are secret messages sent by intelligence agencies to undercover spies all over the world, ...