How Israel ‘hacked’ a prayer app to ask Iranians to ‘lay down arms’

  • Team TOI Plus
  • TIMESOFINDIA.COMUpdated: Mar 01, 2026, 23:31 IST IST

A little before 10am in Tehran, just after the first set of explosions, phones across Iran started lighting up. “Help has arrived,” the first message said, a push notification on an innocuous app many Iranians use as a prayer calendar.
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