Ashyiane Forum (Persian: آشیانه meaning hangar) or Ashiyane Digital Security team was a hacker forum in Iran, founded by Behrooz Kamalian in 2002.[1] It had direct ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The forum was shut down in 2018. In 2021 it was back to cyberspace.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

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