# The Pentagon Called Anthropic a Security Risk. Then It Kept Using Claude in Iran.

- slug: the-pentagon-called-anthropic-a-security-risk-then-it-kept-using-claude-in-iran
- date: 2026-04-24
- category: Artificial Intelligence

At oral argument, government lawyers admitted they had no evidence Anthropic could access its own deployed AI models. Two courts are now simultaneously asking whether the Pentagon can blacklist a company for speaking to the press.

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