E1741: Iranian Intelligence Numbers Station New Persian Spy Broadcasts Decoded
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Is the Cold War era of spycraft back? We dive into the latest updates on V32, the mysterious Persian-language numbers station that appeared following the 2026 conflict in Iran. In this video, we break down the latest logs and technical analysis from Priyom.org regarding the V32 numbers station. First appearing on February 28, 2026, V32 broadcasts strings of numbers in Farsi (Persian) across shortwave frequencies, specifically 7910 kHz.
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Speaker 1: We're still hearing numbered stations coming out of the Iran
area the Middle East area Persian stations. The dominant topic
remains to be station designated as V thirty two Victor
thirty two. It's a new Farsi Persian language station that
appeared in February of twenty twenty six, coinciding with the
start of the US Israeli strikes on Iran amid an
internet blackout. It's widely regarded as the first major new
number station in over fifteen years, and PRIM dot org
has some of the most recent articles about it and
a new update for US today. This is prem or
PRIM howry pr iyom dot org. It is the definitive
tracking page for Victor thirty two V thirty two this
designation for this numbered station. It details its history. It
was first logged in February twenty eighth, about twelve hours
after strikes twenty twenty six. Its schedule is two AM
and eighteen hundred UTC. Frequency was originally seventy nine to
ten killhertz so seven point nine megahertz, and it shifted
to seventy eight to forty two kill hurts after jamming.
The format is Tavaja ta vaja, I'm probably saying that wrong,
which means attention attention, followed by numbered groups. It triangulates
to a US military base in bob Lennen, Germany, near Stuttguard,
and it is believed to be a US intel operation
targeting Iran. And today we're going to get to listen
to a brand new audio example from this website and
you can see this right here.
Speaker 2: God No, this is supposedly Farsi.
Speaker 3: Talent.
Speaker 2: Joe Tala Joe, Tala Joe, Tava.
Speaker 1: Joe, Tavajo, Tava Joe is what he said, which means
attention attention according to this article.
Speaker 3: Now, a lot of guys were saying in the last
video I made about this.
Speaker 1: They were like, man, if these were real transmissions, then
someone would just air strike them because if they're constantly
keyed down, it's like a hooming beacon and it'd be
easy to strike them, which is totally true. Like, if
you're keyed down you use direction finding equipment, you can
easily find a station that's keyed down constantly. But if
the key downstation is inside of your side of the
enemy lines, the enemy lines is over there and your
side of the border is here, and the station's in
your side of the border, then they would have to
send an air strike from enemy side to your side
to strike it down. So you know, and it can reach.
You know, a radio signal can go far and far
and far and wide, especially on HF, you know, it
can go around the world. You can get a really
far reaching signal on the forty meter, which is what
this station is right above.
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website here goes on to talk about how V thirty
two is a station sending numbers in Persian, which is
known as Farsi. The Persian language is known as Farsi.
I always heard that Farsi is what they spoken Iran.
Would make sense's I heard that in college. Actually, it
is believed to be the US intelligence operat against the
exlomic Republic regime of Iran as part of the twenty
twenty six Iran War. It first appeared on the air
that the war started, and it's broadcasts from a US
military base in Stuttar, Germany. It's transmissions have been recurrently
targeted back by the Iranian so called bubble jammer. V
thirty two transmits on seventy nine ten kilohertz at two
AMUTC and at eighteen hundred UTC, the eighteen hundred UTC
transmission repeating the previous two am transmission. Transmissions always contain
six messages, each individual message with the fixed length of
twenty minutes and full transmission that lasts two hours, So
it's got a two hour transmission on it. If they
wanted to airstrike that they could, but they would have
to send planes over enemy lines to do that, depending
on where this station's actually located. Transmissions always contained six messages,
each individual message with a fixed length of twenty minutes
a full transmission of two hours. Message format is as follows,
the word tavoya tavoya, which means attention spoken three times.
A first five digit group header fueld so far allways
is one of three known values, either sixty four oh
nine six one one five zero or five six one
seven three. No idea what that means. A second five
digit group header field one hundred and eighty one unpaired
five digit groups taking almost twenty minutes to speak out,
and an optional silent pause of a few seconds accommodating
for numbers variability that pads the message run time to
exactly twenty minutes, so a pause that'll make it last
to twenty minutes. Structure is then repeated in each of
the six messages in the transmission so far. Each message
position seems to normally use the same headers every time,
and it lists out to six Here, it says a
location here is the multilateration and triangulation efforts. Then local
signal characteristics and investigations have pinpointed the origin of V
thirty two to a short wave transmission facility within a
US military base, so that have to bomb the military
base if they didn't like what it was saying. Easier
said than done. In bob Linden, about fifteen kilometers southwest
of Stuttgard, Germany, in the forest between Panzer Kazer and
Patch Barracks, inside a restricted area marked as a training field,
technical operations are possibly provided by the fifty two Strategic
Signal Battalion headquartered at nearby Patch Barracks. Regardless of what
the intelligence agency these technical operations would be really provided
for history. V thirty two was first logged in February
twenty eighth of twenty twenty six. A couple of the
comments I got on my Last Number of Stations video
saying Number stations have been around for thirty forty years.
This is not new news, which is totally true, but
this specific station was new in February this year. Happened
about twelve hours after the first air strike on Iran
that started the war. The station that reported by the
PRIM team within the first minute of its eighteen hundred
UTC transmission, which is believed to be its very first
transmission ever believed to be okay. Its initial transmission frequency
at the time with seventy nine ten kilohertz. The first
iteration of the station during its first two days featured
a human operator, not a computer, most likely pre recorded
reading numbers as a regular unpaired five digit groups. It
transmitted each time just one twenty minute message, and it
has a sample right here from March first of twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 2: A joel, A joel that a jewel yig yig.
Speaker 1: Mean, So I want to know, have you guys heard this?
You know, those of you who have short wave listening
stations seventy nine ten and seventy eight to forty two
easy to get to. You can get to that on
in You can listen to that frequency on any Ham radio.
You got a forty meter HFF intenna up, very easy
to listen to. Have you heard this yourself? Have you
actually heard something like this yourself? And it seems to
be an ongoing thing. It seems to be transmitting twice
a day every day since February twenty eighth ento February
about a month and a half ago at the time
of this recording, so kind of interesting to listen to
this stuff and kind of speculate on what it might
and might mean. But I wonder if any of you
out there have actually heard this specific station yourselves, with
your own years. Put a comment in the video below,
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