🕳️ Released Phantom Node 74: IAIO, AIO, DIO. Control Over Armaments
- Foundation date
17 October 2025
This project is a philosophical and artistic study of the phenomenon of "phantom nodes" — invisible yet influential objects and subjects in the contemporary global system. The descriptions contained within this study are metaphorical and allegorical, aimed at uncovering systemic problems, regimes, and civilisational influences. They are not a journalistic investigation or legal accusations, but serve as an artistic interpretation of reality.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
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Mode: Technological Dualism
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 74: IAIO, AIO, DIO. Control Over Armaments
The Engineering Phantom.
Who is this?
These three supervisory institutions — IAIO, AIO, and DIO — form the backbone of Iran’s defense technology. They define what becomes weaponized and what remains civilian, serving as the invisible engineers of militarization.
Type of node:
Military-industrial, administrative-technological.
Status:
Above the law, within the state’s shadow.
Form of control:
Contract monopoly, centralized procurement, administrative isolation.
Phantom image:
A three-headed supervisor directing invisible production lines.
What remains after the phantom:
A bureaucratic network that governs every defense sector of the nation.
Core of the node:
What sustained it?
Unified command and funding from MODAFL and IRGC, coupled with the ability to legalize dual-use technologies.
How did it become a phantom?
Through institutional fusion and the disappearance of individuality behind the bureaucratic shell.
Why does the phantom still exist?
Because the state itself depends on it; dissolving it would dismantle Iran’s defense foundation.
Phantom’s condition:
Active, adaptive, bureaucratically invisible.
After the regime:
— international investigations into missile programs;
— sanctions on directors;
— suspended research contracts abroad.
Collective reaction:
Humanity fears not machines but the minds that turn them into weapons.
Where ethics vanish, blueprints breed ghosts.
Core principle:
When technology serves power, not people, the phantom thrives in the system.
Alt-text:
Three merged figures without faces holding blueprints from which missiles and drones emerge.
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Unmasking the Phantom. Pivtorak.Studio. 17.10.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. All depictions are allegorical; the piece does not allege facts about specific private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
🫧 Phantom Node Dossier 74: Arms Control: The Industrial Supervisor (IAIO, AIO, DIO). The "Technological Dualism" Regime.
Key Aspects of the Phantom:
"The Technological Dualism Regime" (or "The Engineering Ghost"). The essence of this node lies in the centralized control and coordination of all Iranian weapons programs (aviation, missiles, general defense) through three key supervisory organizations (IAIO, AIO, DIO). This phantom does not merely produce; it allocates tasks, manages funding, and integrates imported technologies, ensuring the transition of dual-use components into military hardware.
Regimes (which it directly shapes/supports):
📝 Regime of "Centralized Ordering": IAIO (Aviation Industries), AIO (Aerospace), and DIO (Defense) act as sole state procurers for all subordinate manufacturing groups (like SHIG, SBIG, HESA), ensuring non-transparency of the final beneficiary.
🔁 Regime of "External Technology Integration": This node is the point where stolen or smuggled dual-use components are officially incorporated into military projects.
👤 Regime of "Personal Control": The top executives of these organizations (e.g., Afshin Khajehfard, as head of IAIO) are directly appointed IRGC/MODAFL officers, ensuring military, not administrative control over production.
🔄 Regime of "Internal Migration": Ensuring the flexibility and capability for the rapid reallocation of resources between aviation, missiles, and general defense projects, in response to external demand (e.g., from Russia).
Tools (which it actively uses/oversees):
📄 "Joint" Research Contracts: Using IAIO, AIO, and DIO to formalize agreements with universities and civilian laboratories to disguise the military origin of research.
💼 Official Licenses and Permits: Granting subordinate entities state licenses to manufacture "civilian" or "training" components, which serve as camouflage for military production (e.g., UAVs).
⛓️ Bureaucratic Vertical: Using the hierarchical structure (subordination to MODAFL) to isolate end-manufacturers from international monitoring and accountability.
🏭 Manufacturing Partnership: Overseeing cooperation with foreign partners (e.g., North Korea or PRC) at the level of senior industrial structures.
Civilizational Influences (which it embodies/exploits):
🚀 Catalyst for Weapons Proliferation: This node is the key incubator for technologies that Iran exports to its proxy forces and to other aggressor states.
🔬 Erasure of the Civilian/Military Divide: The embodiment of a philosophy where all advanced technologies in the state are dual-use and subordinate to military command.
🌍 Threat to Regional Security: The centralized and uncontrolled development of missile and UAV programs by these structures is the greatest long-term threat to all of Iran's neighbors.
🛡️ Impunity of Leadership: Ensuring that specific executives (Afshin Khajehfard and others) receive direct political protection, even though their actions directly lead to international conflicts.
Dissection of a Phantom Node. Pivtorak.Studio. 17.10.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. Depictions are allegorical and do not allege facts about private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
