Digital activists supporting anti-government protests in Iran stated they hacked an internet broadcast by state tv of a speech by President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The Edalat-e Ali group posted a video of the purported interruption of Raisi’s deal with on Twitter, during which it known as on Iranians to withdraw their cash from “corrupt” regime banks and to take to the streets subsequent week.
“Death to Khamenei,” “Death to the Islamic Revolution,” and “Death to the Islamic republic,” it stated on Twitter.
“Many compatriots approached us and asked us to echo the call (for protests) on February 16,” added the group, in its second such reported hacking of state tv in assist of months-long anti-government protests.
In October, Edalat-e Ali interrupted a reside state tv broadcast of Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assembly state officers, with textual content on the display screen that learn “the blood of our youths is on your hands.”
Iran erupted into nationwide protests in September, after the dying of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic’s strict costume code for ladies.
The protests developed into the largest problem for the clerical management for the reason that revolution, earlier than subsiding on the finish of the 12 months within the face of a lethal crackdown.
The regime has sought to painting the protest motion as “riots” backed by its Western enemies together with the United States, Israel and Britain.
Speaking at a rally in Tehran’s Azadi Square on Saturday to mark the anniversary, Raisi stated folks had gathered to resume their “allegiance” to the revolution.
Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights says the regime’s safety forces have killed a minimum of 488 protesters within the crackdown, together with 64 youngsters and 39 ladies.
The non-governmental group says hundreds extra have been arrested over the demonstrations and 4 have been executed, with a minimum of one other 107 dealing with the dying penalty.
Iran says a whole lot of individuals have been killed within the protests, together with dozens of safety personnel.
It not too long ago freed jailed journalists and rights activists, lots of whom had been arrested through the protests that flared over Amini’s dying within the custody of the infamous morality police. — Agence France-Presse
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