The cyber attack calls for “seeking another place outside of Iran” for the ayatollah’s family as the country goes through its fourth week of protests
Iran is experiencing the fourth week in a row of clashes between security forces and protesters who have taken to the streets since September 16 to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman detained by moral police for wearing the veil wrong. Outrage against the Iranian regime has only grown and has even spread across borders – thousands of people have protested in front of the embassies of countries such as Spain, the United States, France or the United Kingdom. This Sunday, the social response had another target: state television. A group of activists hacked into the live news channel with an image of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in flames under the slogan ‘Join and Rise’.
The image was accompanied by a message to the Ayatollah. “His hands are stained with the blood of our young people.” A second statement appeared on the screens of every home, saying that “it’s time to pick up your furniture and find another place for your family outside of Iran.” The series also featured black-and-white photographs of Mahsa Amini and three other women who lost their lives during the demonstrations.
The Tasnim news agency confirmed the overnight news was “briefly hacked by anti-revolutionary agents”. The cyberattack, which lasted several seconds before returning to mainstream programming, was claimed by the activist group Edalat-e Ali (The Justice of Ali).
Thousands of people took to the streets again this weekend against Islamic law. On this occasion, according to the NGO Hengaw, two protesters were shot dead by plainclothes agents. Seventy other people were injured. A member of the Revolutionary Guards identified as Gholamreza Bamdi was also killed during the riots. So the amount of shame is increasing. According to Iran Human Rights, nearly 190 have already been killed – at least 19 of them were minors.
The West is watching closely the events in the Ayatollah country. Several countries have indeed advised their compatriots to flee Iran. The French foreign ministry urged its citizens to leave the country “as soon as possible” because of the risk that they could be subject to “arrests, arbitrary detentions and unfair trials” for the protests. And he warned that, in case of arrest, “respect for the fundamental rights and security of the person” in question is not guaranteed. The Netherlands took the same step and changed the travel alarm from orange to red due to the crisis in the Islamic republic.
Spain indicated that “due to the current situation of instability and protests in Iran, as well as the frequent interruption of communications, any travel to this country is currently discouraged”. It also urged its citizens not to participate in the demonstrations and to avoid crowded places and areas of conflict. Canada, for its part, declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terrorist organization” and punished its members so that they could not enter the country.
The leaders of Iran’s power convened an emergency meeting this Sunday to try to respond to the wave of protests that have plunged the country into chaos since September 16 last year, when Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died. arrested by the moral police for wearing the veil incorrectly. In the meeting, the President, Ebrahim Raisi, spoke; the Chairman of the Majlis (Iranian Parliament), Mohamad Baqer Qalibaf; and the head of the judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejei.
The three leaders agreed at the meeting that “security and peace in the country is the basis of all kinds of economic activities and popular affairs,” the ayatollah presidency said in a statement collected by ISNA news agency.
Without further answer, the leadership of the Iranian power insisted on throwing balls away. Following the official line the government has taken since the protests began, the three leaders again blamed the riots on the hidden hand of “regional enemies who view a united and powerful Iran as a threat to their interests.” “It is clear that this unrest and insecurity was fabricated by the United States and the fake Zionist occupation regime, as well as their paid agents, with the help of some treacherous Iranians abroad,” Supreme Leader Ali said on Tuesday.
Source: La Verdad
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