Anthropic's threat report shows the IRGC and the Houthis weaponized Claude for weapons development, espionage, and influence ops.

🚨 Houthis:
• Used Claude Code to build guidance/nav/control software for weapons instead of hiring engineers
• Ran 3 parallel programs: a guided rocket w/ phone-class flight computer + homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile targeting 2,000+ km range; an "R2000" line incl. a hypersonic glide vehicle
• Tried to hide the weapons purpose from Anthropic and offending accounts were ultimately banmed.

🚨 Islamic regime (surveillance targeting Jews & Israelis):
• Built an automated OSINT "identity-profiling harness" scraping the public internet to compile intelligence-style dossiers on hundreds of individuals in Israel and the Jewish diaspora
• Targeted Israeli government officials, private citizens, and organizations tied to Jewish communities outside Israel feeding an existing target list
• A separate Iran-nexus actor built targeting handbooks on U.S. naval forces (personnel, ship/aircraft IDs, satellite imagery)

🚨 Islamic regime ("soft war" propaganda, GTG-34001, ICCO/Khorasan Razavi/Bina Observatory):
• Built doctrine manuals, personas, target databases under the "Jihad al-Tabyin" mandate
• Impersonated an IRGC spokesperson; faked citations to CSIS, Brookings, RAND during the 2026 US-Israel-Iran war
• Targeted the Baha'i minority and Iranian opposition figures; drafted Supreme Leader funeral logistics uploading documents and the full plan to Claude.

(Emily Schrader on X)

The Saudi crown prince chose the Mecca Pact over the Abraham Accords, and he has to now suffer the consequences.
Right now, Saudi Arabia has turned out to be completely alone. America is not helping. Turkey is not helping. Pakistan is not helping.

And now, Saudi Arabia is officially no longer sending oil through its last big pipeline. With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, this was the main way Saudi Arabia could still sell oil.

This pipeline was their last major route. It moves oil from the east of the country to the Red Sea port of Yanbu.

This means Saudi Arabia’s oil-economy lifeline is completely choked.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Pakistan has rejected Saudi Arabia's request to join the fight against the Iran-backed Houthis under the Mecca Defense Treaty.

According to diplomatic sources, Saudi Crown Prince has indirectly approached Israel via CENTCOM requesting intelligence and operational assistance against the Houthis.