When American bombs dropped on Iran, a mysterious shortwave radio station began broadcasting a list of numbers in Farsi across the globe. Reminiscent of Cold War spy communications, the broadcast raises serious questions: Where is the broadcast coming from, and who is listening to it? Is Iran sending messages to terrorist sleeper cells in the United States? And how is the Trump administration addressing these concerns, if at all? 

Today on Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with Shane Harris from The Atlantic to get some answers. 

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Read Shane's original story in The Atlantic.⁠

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