Iran spoofing GPS of commercial planes near its borders...

 I thought this was interesting, the Mad Mullah's are really flexing their muscles on the region especially that they perceive as the United States as weak and divided(And we are )  this will embolden them to continue to be the bully of the region.

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Iran is likely the source of a recent uptick in navigation failures caused by spoofing of GPS receivers in commercial aircraft near its borders, the head of U.S. Air Forces in the region said on Oct. 4.

“The closer you get to Iran, the more clear it is to me that it’s probably the Iranians who are responsible for that,” Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich told reporters. “As to the particular element in Iran [who is responsible], I wouldn't be sure.”

The FAA released a warning to operators last week after receiving reports of higher GPS spoofing activity affecting commercial aircraft on airways near the Iranian border in Iraq and the Caucasus region.

Other reports received by Ops Group, a flight information service, said that some flight crews also saw their inertial reference systems malfunction on the same corridors.

Grynkewich, the commander of U.S. Air Forces in Central Command, said that U.S. military aircraft flying over Syria routinely encounter electromagnetic interference that affects their navigation and communication systems.

“Depending on the platform that is operating, we've got a variety of tactics, techniques and procedures to mitigate it, whether it's changing a frequency or changing an altitude or upgrading to a different antenna for the GPS,” he said.

The region’s airspace ranks among the most contested in the world in the electromagnetic spectrum, he added. In Syria, so many factions are engaged in electromagnetic sparring that it is often difficult to know the source of the attack.

“It's really hard to establish attribution in Syria, in particular, with a number of actors that are there,” Grynkewich said. “There's probably a lot of people that are doing it.”