The 2021 update to Al Kashi’s method was not about individuals. It was about networks of goodness that could be weaponized.
Mehdi Kashani still prays at Imam Zadeh Saleh. He still helps the janitor with his phone. But now, when he walks home, he glances at the traffic cameras differently. Rijal Al Kashi Report 176 -2021-
The file was not supposed to exist.
“If Al Kashi were alive today, would he trust you—or track you?” The 2021 update to Al Kashi’s method was
Mehdi Kashani was a mid-level telecom engineer and a Friday prayer regular at the Imam Zadeh Saleh mosque in north Tehran. His beard was regulation length. His phone contained no music, only Quranic recitations. By all measures, he was thiqa . He still helps the janitor with his phone
“They are watching people like you,” the investigator said. “Not the government. Someone else. Someone using the old nomenclature. Someone who knows Al Kashi better than the seminarians.”