Edison Research (reporting US election data) and an Iran host linked in, apparently

 With our research partners in Iran, Edison has full-time research staff and supervisors in Tehran and the ability to conduct market and survey research throughout the country. We provide market and survey research services in many of the world’s most difficult-to-research nations, including Iran.  https://www.edisonresearch.com/iran-market-research/

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Retired U.S. Army Colonel Phil Waldron, a cybersecurity expert who spent half of his 30-year military career as a cavalry officer, conducting armed reconnaissance, and the last half of his career in information warfare.

10.  An additional search of Edison Research on 2020-11-08 showed that Edison Research has an Iranian server seen here:

Inputting the Iranian IP into Robtex confirms the direct connection into the “edisonresearch” host from the perspective of the Iranian domain also.  This means that it is not possible that the connection was a unidirectional reference.   -Waldron affidavit  https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.15.pdf  and

https://www.robtex.com/dns-lookup/edisonresearch.%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86.ir

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WHOIS Source:      RIPE NCC

IP Address:        193.189.122.30

Country:           Iran (Islamic Republic Of)

Network Name:      IR-IRNIC

Owner Name:        Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences

CIDR:              193.189.122.0/23

From IP:           193.189.122.0

To IP:             193.189.123.255

Allocated:         Yes

Contact Name:      Alireza Saleh

Address:           Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics, and Mathematics (IRNIC/IPM), IRNIC/IPM, Niavaran Square, Tehran 19548, IRAN

Email:             *****@nic.ir

Abuse Email:       abuse@ipm.ir      

Phone:             +98 21 228 280 80

Fax:               +98 21 222 957 00

https://rdpguard.com/free-whois.aspx?ip=193.189.122.30

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11-26-2019    List the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Siavash Shahshahani and Alireza Saleh on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List, Pursuant to Executive Order 13846; At President Rohani’s discretion, this organization and these individuals are assigned to operate Iran’s .ir domain name extension and are key to the country’s Internet connectivity and the government’s censorship.    

Respectfully,

Michael Gargiulo
CEO at VPN.com

cc: Ms. Tripti Sinha, Chair
Governance Committee
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

https://www.globenewswire.com/fr/news-release/2019/11/26/1952376/0/en/VPN-com-Warns-President-Trump-ICANN-to-Terminate-All-Iranian-Domain-Names.html