{"id":52598,"date":"2026-01-30T04:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/uk-based-pair-behind-messaging-app-accused-of-giving-data-to-iranian-regime-11\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:04:42","slug":"uk-based-pair-behind-messaging-app-accused-of-giving-data-to-iranian-regime-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/uk-based-pair-behind-messaging-app-accused-of-giving-data-to-iranian-regime-11\/","title":{"rendered":"UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex<\/p>\n<p>The creators of a messaging app accused of handing user data to the Iranian regime live on a windswept hill in a British coastal town, the Guardian can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Hadi and Mahdi Anjidani are the cofounders of TS Information Technology, established in 2010 and <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/07254811\">now registered<\/a> at the address of a tax accountancy in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is the UK branch of an Iranian software corporation, Towse\u2019e Saman Information Technology (TSIT).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/29\/iran-app-gap-messenger-tsit-user-data-uk-sussex\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex The creators of a messaging app accused of handing user data to the Iranian regime live on a windswept hill in a British coastal town, the Guardian can reveal. Hadi and Mahdi Anjidani are the cofounders of TS Information Technology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}