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Anthropic’s September 2026 report includes dossier- and profiling-related activity, but the targets it names are not Americans.

For the Iran-linked influence operation tied to MEK/NCRI, Anthropic says the network scraped hundreds of social-media channels to build detailed profiles of individuals inside Iran, then built psychographic dossiers on dozens of specific individuals in Iran. In Anthropic’s separate Iran-linked surveillance case, the company says the operators maintained records on Iranian nationals, surveilled and profiled 6,388 Iranians in a year, and named 39 Iranian opposition and diaspora accounts.

So the post changes the report’s stated targets. Anthropic’s own write-up points to dossiers/profiles on Iranians or people inside Iran, not “Americans.”

Anthropic’s September 2026 threat report does describe a Navy-related misuse case, but it attributes that case to a China-based actor, not Iran. In the conventional-weapons section, Anthropic says a China-based actor used Claude to draft anti-torpedo fire-control documents and to generate a briefing on U.S. Navy systems, and that the actor was associated with a Chinese defense manufacturer aiming to support the People’s Liberation Army Navy.

By contrast, Anthropic’s Iran-linked cases in the same report are described as influence operations and domestic surveillance/profiling of Iranians. The Iran section says those actors used Claude to build campaign plans, doctrine manuals, persona systems, target databases, and ministerial planning documents for propaganda efforts. That means the post is conflating separate case studies and incorrectly assigning the Navy-related one to Iran.