Who's at the controls of Iran's bot army?
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A group of Twitter accounts seems to be designed to pump out crude Iranian propaganda aimed at an English-speaking audience - but the people behind it and their true motivations are a mystery.
Dozens of accounts tweet to thousands of followers in waves every few minutes throughout the day using the hashtag "Powerful Iran". Their profile pictures are Hollywood celebrities or stock photos, but their tweets almost always include pictures of Iranian military equipment along with random and sometimes seemingly irrelevant hashtags:
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