On Sunday, August 2, Hamshahri — a daily newspaper affiliated with the Tehran municipality — published a short video on its website and Telegram channel explaining why no audio or video recording of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has been released since he took office. The third is hardware fingerprinting — phone microphones filter out low frequencies and cheap components produce characteristic harmonic distortion, functioning like a device signature. It then adds that breathing patterns and the pauses between words indicate the speaker’s physical condition, heart rate and stress level. The foreign minister has said the breach that made this necessary is human, and unresolved. The foreign minister describes a penetration deep enough to place officials at a specific address at a specific hour, still unfixed five months later, and possibly operating on Iranian decisions rather than merely observing them.