Iran used a group of Hebrew-speaking women in the northern city of Mashad to send sexually explicit images to Israeli soldiers in attempts to access information, news outlet Iran International revealed over the weekend.

According to the report, the young women were trained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), were fluent in Hebrew, and contacted the soldiers over social media, sending them explicit videos and photos to gain information.

The names and profiles were fake, but the photos and videos that were sent were real, according to Iran International pictures and videos to the victims. Many had the women wearing hats, heavy make-up, revealing clothes, or, in some cases, nude.

[The IRCG will beat women in the streets for not wearing all-covering clothing, but apparently have no problem with using naked women in their honeypot schemes. Go figure. The information gleaned then gets passed to Hamas, which may be one good reason why the Israelis keep shutting down comms systems in Gaza. As the Jerusalem Post points out, this is not a recent phenomenon either. This should remind all of us that the risk for malicious contacts on social media is high, even among the throngs of scantily clad young women who keep following me on Twitter and Instagram. Although that CLEARLY is more understandable, given my beautiful head of … scalp. — Ed]