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Why did this justification come out now and not before when your society supported this sabotage in the Telegram groups, an attempt to blame a company to improve reputation even though the sabotage lasted for a long time and in a wide range and with multiple
accounts that make us doubt that, and trying to impose the name through sabotage was something bad and uncivilized.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Ebrahim Nejati via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 7, 2021 4:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Abdullah Abdulrhman <abdullahOSM@outlook.com>; talk@openstreetmap.org <talk@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] Persian/Arabian Gulf Tagging</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Abdullah Abdulrhman <abdullahOSM@outlook.com> writes:<br>
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> Second: The sabotage that occurred was very large, and some of it was<br>
> not recovered until weeks later, and this caused many effects, as the<br>
> navigation programs associated with OSM, such as OsmAnd and others,<br>
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I know it's a bit late but I'd like to give an update about the current<br>
state of this incident.<br>
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After being raised in here, OSM Iran community *just* found about what<br>
has happened. One of our community members, Sosha, did an extensive<br>
investigation about the source and cause of the sabotage. He finally<br>
found that the responsible user [1] had also blocked some major highways<br>
in Iran which caused the malfunction of several routing services except<br>
one, Balad. -- These routing services all use OSM data as base. Also the<br>
responsible user had used a custom imagery to Google [2] which was<br>
hosted in Balad website.<br>
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Sosha posted the outcome of his investigation in a blog post [3]. It was<br>
immensely circulated in Twitter and Balad noticed and responded. It<br>
has been said that the response user was working for Balad to edit OSM<br>
but these actions was on his own. According to Balad, he is now fired<br>
due to his actions. [4]<br>
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Balad now is going to make a closer connection with OSM Iran<br>
community to avoid further actions. Also, the story was covered in major<br>
Iranian tech websites [5][6] as well as newspaper [7] <br>
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I hope we can settle the Persian Gulf issue as soon as possible to avoid<br>
such possible actions in future.<br>
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[1]: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/user/10610287">https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/user/10610287</a><br>
[2]: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/98345359">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/98345359</a><br>
[3]: <a href="https://vrgl.ir/Uvsz9">https://vrgl.ir/Uvsz9</a><br>
[4]: <a href="https://twitter.com/Imaaanam/status/1411642501753192455">https://twitter.com/Imaaanam/status/1411642501753192455</a><br>
[5]: <a href="https://www.zoomit.ir/tech-iran/372281-balad-open-street-map-saudi-arabia-sabotage/">
https://www.zoomit.ir/tech-iran/372281-balad-open-street-map-saudi-arabia-sabotage/</a><br>
[6]: <a href="https://digiato.com/article/2021/07/03/خرابکاری-در-نقشه-های-osm/">https://digiato.com/article/2021/07/03/خرابکاری-در-نقشه-های-osm/</a>
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[7]: <a href="https://7sobh.com/content/چه-کسی-نقشههای-عربستان-را-دستکاری/">https://7sobh.com/content/چه-کسی-نقشههای-عربستان-را-دستکاری/</a><br>
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