Cyber attack blocks tens of Iranian government websites!

Source: al-hakea

Despite the almost complete silence of the Iranian media on this issue, the Islamic Republic was hit by another strong cyber attack, which caused the temporary collapse of different important government websites. Between the websites attacked, there ware the sites of the Central Bank, the Irancell Communications, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Information and communications Technology. After the attack, the Iranian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology was forced to admit that “35 government websites were attacked”, and this has obliged also the security forces to remove sites, in order to avoid other attacks. Fore the moment there are no information on who are the responsible of the cyber attack.

 

Iran will use 18 thousands Basij to monitor the cyberspace!

Source: al-Arabiya

Abdul Samad Khorram Abadi, Secretary of Iran’s Committee for Specifying Cyber Crimes, announced that 18000 Basij people will work as “voluntary militia” to monitor the space control. For Abadi, these people will serve as a primary sources to identifying criminal contents in the websites, helping the job of the Attorney General.

Last December, the Iranian regime has also announced the creation of a Basij militia composed by 200 Iranian students, which will form “Electronic Brigades”, in order to be “engaged in the soft electronic warfare against the country and to monitoring the hostile activities online”.

These projects were criticized by human rights organization, as a maneuver to increase the repression against the civil and democratic activists in the country.

IRGC General Rezaei: “CIA’s agent travelled in Iran and visited all Universities”. A new wave of crackdowns is near?

Source: Tasnim News

One day after the Iranian election, Mohsen Rezaei – powerful IRGC General and Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council – gave a dangerous speech during an event dedicated to science and engineering in the Imam Hossein University of Tehran (this university is directly controlled by the Pasdaran). In the speech, Rezaei revealed that in June 2015, a member of the CIA travelled to Iran and visited all the Universities. He also added that soon, the Iranian authorities will release documents, in order to prove what he said and to show the American attempt to infiltrate inside the Iranian young society.

Considering the battle between the factions inside the Islamic Republic, is Mohsen Rezaei announcing a new phase of IRGC’s crackdown inside the Iranian Universities???

Iran MP Ali Motahari: “With Ahmadinejad the freedom of expression was better than with Rouhani”

Source: Digarban

The Tehran’s representative in the Parliament (Majlis), MP Ali Motahari, denounced the bad status of the freedom of expression in the Islamic Republic. Speaking in the University Allameh Tabatabai in Tehran, Motahari said that, during the Presidencies of Khatami and Ahmadinejad, the “freedom of expression” was “acceptable”. Today, under Rouhani, the situation changed in worse, and the regime controls very strictly the “free flow of information”. Ali Motahari is well known in Iran for his battle in favor of a right process for the two leaders of the Green Movement, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. For his position, MP Ali Mohatari was physically attacked in the Parliament (Good Morning Iran) and before a speech in the Shiraz University (EA World View)

Iranian regime limits the access to the Web browser of “Telegram Messenger”

Source: Yjc.ir

The Iranian regime has decided to limit the access to the web browser of “Telegram Messenger”. Telegram – a Russian software – is an instant messaging service, but it offers also a web browser (link). It seems that the Iranian cyber security, has started to block or limit the access to the web browser, permitting something the only use of the ‘SSL’ protocol (the Secure Sockets Layer).

Few months ago, the CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov, revealed on Twitter that Iranian regime demanded the company provide them with “spying and censorship tools”. Telegram refused to accept the request of Tehran, and the application was briefly blocked (VoA).

Last week, the IRGC commander Gholam Reza Jalali – head of the Iran’s Civil Defense Organization – attacked the Iranian Government for its decision to sign agreements with Russian on satellite and telecommunications. He accused Rouhani to sell Iranian national infrastructures to the “Russian infidels” (Good Morning Iran).

 

Clarification for the media: The journalists arrested in Iran are five, not two…

Source: rferl.org, BBC Persian

In another wave of crackdown against the freedom of expression and the “infiltration of the Western culture”, the Iranian regime arrested five journalist. The media in English have reported that the journalists arrested are ‘only’ two: Issa Saharkhiz, former deputy culture minister, and Ehsan Mazandarani, editor in chief of the Iranian daily Farhikhtegan. But, from what it is possible to read in the news in Farsi, the journalists arrested – as said before – are five (Digarban). The only problem is that, for the moment, the names of the other three arrested are unknown.

For all of them the charges include “insulting the supreme leader” and “propaganda against the regime”. The actual location of the people arrested is unknown.

Shocking: Iranian website published picture of Salman Rushdie hanged.

Source: Digarban, Kheybar Online

The presence of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie in the Frankfut Book Fair, continues to provoke irritation and condemnations from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Worse, in these days there is a real inciting coming from Iranian media, in order to remember that Rushdie is an apostate. The newspaper Jomhouri-e Eslami published an article, remembering that the death penalty against Rushdie – issued by Imam Khomeini with a specific fatwa – it’s still valid (Digarban). Worse, the website Kheybar Online, in an article in which remembered all the case against Salman Rushdie, published a shocking picture of the famous writer with a rope around his neck (Tebyan).

Ali Jannati, Iranian Minister of Culture, attacked again the organizers of the Book Fair in Germany, accusing them to purse an “hostile behavior”, which promotes a “religious conflict”. This, said Jannati, will enlarge the distances between Islam and the West (Digarban).

 

Must See: A desperate mother challenges the Iranian regime [Video]

Source: Freedom Messenger, Radio Zamaneh

On October 4 an Iranian student of the Amir Kabir University, Amin Anvari, was arrested. He was imprisoned with the accuse of “propaganda against the regime”, because of his social networks activity. It seems that he has insulted the Ayatollah “Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi on Facebook”. The video below shows the desperate protest of Anvari’s mother. She joined the weekly protest of the brave Iranian activists in favor of the freedom of all political prisoners. Amin Anvari’s mother denounced the absence of freedom in Iran and asked for the immediate release of her son.

Great! Iranian men join the campaign of in support of gender equality in the Islamic Republic

Source: My Stealthy Freedom

The Facebook page “My Stealthy Freedom” has recently invited the Iranian men to support the campaign for gender equality in the Islamic Republic. Many male followers decided to accept the challenge, publishing on the Facebook page their picture in support of the campaign. Below some beautiful examples. The Facebook page, managed by the Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad, has also launched a petition in Farsi directed to the President Hassan Rouhani (Text).

Iran Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi: “Internet and mobile phones have had adverse effects”

Source: Rasa News

Iranian Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi – Tehran’s representative in the Assembly of Expert – denounced the bad effect of Internet and mobile phones on the population. These technology, in the opinion of the Ayatollah, could have a dangerous impact, if not properly channeled. Mesbah Yazdi added that the “Western” enemy uses these tools to spread its stories and to infiltrate the Islamic society, with the goal to destroy the revolutionary beliefs.