Inside a nondescript Midtown Manhattan office, a couple of computer analysts spend their days peering intently at large screens of satellite mapping surveillance data, watching dozens of little blips moving like snails. Each one, they said, represents a ship controlled by Iran or its trading partners. They said they are looking for suspicious behavior. The analysts work for United Against Nuclear Iran, a privately financed advocacy group founded by former American diplomats that has become an annoying thorn to Iran, which regards it as a vigilante extension of a hostile American foreign policy. The group's latest effort is its maritime monitoring system, which it says provides a new...
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