Autonomous system
AS5542 Ministry-Of-Health Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Ministry of Health and Medical Education
government legacy
Ministry-Of-Health is Iran's Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, the national government department responsible for public health and for the country's medical universities. Its registry address is in Tehran.
What it's used for
- The ministry's own network and the connectivity it provides to the institutions under it. In Iran the medical universities and teaching hospitals sit administratively under this ministry, so the address space serves a government department and its affiliated health and education bodies.
Notable
- This is a government network. The addresses belong to a state ministry and its institutions, not to a commercial ISP, and should not be read as consumer or hosting space.
- The announced footprint is small and drawn from a few distinct RIPE ranges, consistent with an institutional network rather than a provider.
Interesting
- The ministry's combined remit over both healthcare delivery and medical education is unusual internationally, and it explains why a health ministry ends up carrying what elsewhere would be university network traffic.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS58224 | Iran Telecommunication Company PJS | 610 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 2.30K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IR | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5542- Registry name
- Ministry-Of-Health
- Registrant
- ir-health-1-mnt
- Abuse contact
- abuse@behdasht.gov.ir
- Registered
- 2015-10-28
- Last changed
- 2026-01-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 10 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS5542
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS5542
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere