Traditional rijal divides narrators into thiqa (reliable) and dha’if (weak). But Report 176 proposed a third category, which the clerical committee had not yet ratified:
The file was not supposed to exist.
On a rainy night in February 2021, Mehdi received a private message on a legacy encrypted platform—one that intelligence had quietly tagged as “under observation, no action.” The message contained three lines: Rijal Al Kashi Report 176 -2021-
“Who is ‘they’?”