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Iran waging “cyber warfare” to “disrupt communication of dissidents” and “promote terrorism” worldwide

Dec 29, 2018 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A NEW wave of “cyber warfare” is using “mass surveillance” to “actively disrupt the communication of protesters and dissidents” in Iran and “promote terrorism” across the globe, an explosive document has claimed.

This is precisely why Islamic supremacists must never be appeased nor tolerated. They are fascist and expansionist, and while the abuse to which they subject their own people is atrocious enough,  these abuses do not stop at their borders.

“Revealed: How Iran wages ‘CYBER TERRORISM’ to secretly spy on MILLIONS and incite ‘CHAOS,’” by Sam Stevenson, Express, December 28, 2018:

A NEW wave of “cyber warfare” is using “mass surveillance” to “actively disrupt the communication of protesters and dissidents” in Iran and “promote terrorism” across the globe, an explosive document has claimed.

The paper was compiled by the official Iranian resistance movement, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). It makes damning assertions which implicate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in waging “cyber warfare to preserve the theocracy”. NCRI representative Hossein Abedini has spoken to Express.co.uk about his group’s findings.

Furious Iranians, making use of cyber technology to disseminate their message, have been part of a popular uprising that erupted in Tehran in December 2017.

But now the theocratic regime – led by Iran’s IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) – is using “cyber attacks” to suppress its people, the Iranian Resistance document seen by Express.co.uk claims.

It explains: “Millions of Iranians have access to the internet and more than 48 million own smartphones.

“Iran’s young and restless population has become increasingly ‘tech-savvy’ over the years to evade the regime’s controls and censorship.

“The continuous cyber resistance by the public has driven the regime to route internet traffic through one of the state-controlled systems, making it very difficult for any subscriber to evade state-sponsored cyber repression.”

The ominous paper argues the Iranian regime is among very few governments in the world where “its testbed of cyber attacks and strategies is its own citizens”.

It contends this approach is “in line with Tehran’s longstanding worldview of instilling fear and repression at home, while promoting terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism and chaos abroad”.

The document claims the regime uses malicious malware and spyware embedded within smartphone applications (apps) to “secretly spy” on its people….

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Filed Under: Featured, Internet jihad, Iran, Islamic supremacism Tagged With: Hossein Abedini, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)


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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 9:25 am

    “…now the theocratic regime – led by Iran’s IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) – is using “cyber attacks” to suppress its people, the Iranian Resistance document claims.
    It explains: “Millions of Iranians have access to the internet and more than 48 million own smartphones.
    “Iran’s young and restless population has become increasingly ‘tech-savvy’ over the years to evade the regime’s controls and censorship”

    The Internet is probably the biggest single reason for the chaos within Islam, and why millions of muslims are leaving Islam. Taqiyya has been nullified and made worthless, even an embarrassment.

    I expect the mullahs to be removed within six years, causing a tsunami of secularism throughout the Middle East.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/25/opinion/islam-conversion.html

    • christianblood says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 10:28 am

      (…Iran waging “cyber warfare” to “disrupt communication of dissidents” and “promote terrorism” worldwide…)

      This is U$ imperialist “Deep State” anti-Iranian propaganda!

      The fact is, as we speak, US and US backed jihadists are burning bodies at Rukban region of Syria to hide Crimes – Source.

      https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201812291071094627-rukban-atrocities-smoke-bodies/

      • Ernie says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 12:57 pm

        “christianblood “, you are a liar , a russian troll spreading disinformation , and repeating your lies perpetually . Begone troll !!!

        • christianblood says

          Dec 29, 2018 at 5:41 pm

          Ernie

          According to (thereligionofpeace.com) 34338 deadly islamic terrorist attacks have been carried out since 9/11. Show me a single one of them perpetrated or carried out by Iranians or Hezbollah???

          Please understand this: when I say prove me a terrorist attack that was perpetrated by Iran or Hezbollah I mean show me a real terrorist attack like a suicide bombing in a mosque, a cinema, a bar, a church or a school like the one that killed 48 Shiite students in Afghanistan a few days ago! Show me Iranians and Hezbollah members beheading Westerners or Christians or Sunnis on video while screaming allahu akbar! Show me Iranian or Hezbollah terrorists gunning down people in night clubs or bombing trains, or attacking news paper offices and killing journalists, Christians, Yazidis, or tourists, or using vehicles and killing hundreds of civilians as happen in Europe for the past two years or flying planes into buildings! Show me a single one of these proven, verifiable terror attacks perpetrated by Iran or Hezbollah or please SHUT UP and stop spreading some baseless US government propaganda!

          Please understand AMERICAN ACCUSATIONS AGAINST IRAN ARE unsubstantiated, politically motivated, malicious lies!!!

        • christianblood says

          Dec 29, 2018 at 9:58 pm

          DHazard

          CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, CBS and all US media is also pro-US, pro-Globalist, pro-liberal imperialist US propaganda! I guess you aware of that too! Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, an investigative journalist is forced to hide in the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK for close to 7 years now because he dared to expose US imperialist crimes! There is NO freedom of speech in the US and the West, as soon as one contradicts the official line of the establishment they are black-listed, demonized and destroyed! Edward Snowden too!

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 29, 2018 at 10:24 pm

          Note that christianblood always leaves out attacks on Israel–but why wouldn’t he? He is also fine with Hezb’allah’s takeover of Lebanon–a former Christian-majority nation–he has claimed before that they *had* to do it, in order to protect themselves from the democratic Jews…

      • DHazard says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 5:55 pm

        Read the article. It doesn’t say bodies are being burned. It says that a third party said they might be. Sputnik news is state owned and not entirely trustworthy. Here is an excerpt from a job interview for a position at Sputnik:

        “What would you do if we asked you to write something that wasn’t true?”

        From “My Life at a Russian Propaganda Network”
        https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/21/russian-propaganda-sputnik-reporter-215511

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 10:18 pm

        Has anyone else read this article? It is titled “Smoke Over Rukban: Militants Possibly Burning Bodies to Hide Crimes – Source”.

        In other words, they just made this crap up.

        By the way, my husband and I went to breakfast earlier today. While we were there, there was a brief, intense fire at the convenience store across the street–we could see billowing black smoke. Firefighters arrived, acted fast and put it out in less than ten minutes.

        If I were to report on this story for Sputnik News, should I title it “Smoke over Piedmont Avenue: 7-11 Possibly Burning Bodies to Hide Crimes”? Sounds pretty catchy…

        • christianblood says

          Dec 30, 2018 at 5:11 am

          gravenimage

          It is true Graven. US and its head-chopping jihadist allies there are very likely hiding their murderous crimes there! I 100% believe it and every rational human should too!

      • Ernie says

        Dec 30, 2018 at 6:05 am

        “christianblood”, shutup yourself , ” dancing boy “.

        • christianblood says

          Dec 30, 2018 at 8:06 am

          Ernie

          Below is what the animalistic, Anti-Christ, pro-jihadist West glamorizes, exports and worships! Enjoy it! Shame on you! You are a hollywoodized leftist liptard!

  2. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 9:25 am

    No, christine williams, it is your masters the most wicked people on earth the evil zionists who are fascists carrying out mass killings of Palestinians for protesting against illegal occupation of their land . you don’t want say it for fear of assassination by evil Jewish death squads as they did to RFk, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. why are you afraid of death? because you know that when you die you will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning forever together with the satan mithraist christians call Holy Spirit?
    There is no more such idiot protests in Iran being sponsored by evil United States because evil United is now weak due to bad policies under savage mad devil Trump.Do’ntyou see that mad devil Trump has now withdrew from Syria and Afghanistan and preparing to withdraw from Iraq saying evil United States could no longer be able to be the policeman of the world? So, the issue of regime change in Iran is no longer on the agenda. wicked scums of evils!!

    • Terry Gain says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 11:16 am

      Yo Muhammad. I missed your apology for the Armenian Holocaust. Could you please re-post it.

      Thanks for the info that Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray and Thomas Hagan aka Mujahid Abdul Hakim were Jews. You are an invaluable source of information. Whenever my friends claim Muslims aren’t really all that bad, I refer them to your scholarly comments.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 10:20 pm

        Brilliant, Terry.

    • James Lincoln says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 11:50 am

      Ibrahim itace muhammed,

      Here is a template for your next posting. Just fill in the blanks to save yourself some time. Please don’t bother to actually think or use evidence-based thought / proper references.

      Most wicked people…evil Zionists…mass killings of Palestinians…satan mithraist Christians…evil United States…savage mad devil Trump…wicked scums of evils!!

  3. Isntlam says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 9:53 am

    Promoting terrorism? Surely Obama’s good friends would never do such a violent thing… Oh, wait… Bill Ayres, Bernardine Dohrn.

    • Terry Gain says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 11:22 am

      But but but Obama claimed that Ayers was just a guy in his neighbourhood. I think it was either before or after he assured us that he is a Christian. Since there was not a smidgen of scandal during Obama’s Presidency, his statements must be accepted as true.

  4. Janwaar Bibi says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 10:11 am

    I believe everything the National Council of Resistance of Iran says about the mullahs. They have no incentive to lie. This stuff about the mullahs sponsoring terrorism worldwide is chilling. We must attack Iran before it is too late or the smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud. The Iranians will welcome us with sweets and flowers. We can’t wait for a Security Council resolution – we must attack right away. Ahmed Chalabi can be Prime Minister….
    And then I woke up.

    • christianblood says

      Dec 29, 2018 at 10:32 am

      Rania Khalek:

      (…US is backing Al Qaeda, ISIS, Muslim brotherhood and Saudi Arabia in Yemen and everywhere…) Indeed Rania!

      • Terry Gain says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 11:24 am

        So pretty for such a liar.

        • christianblood says

          Dec 29, 2018 at 5:43 pm

          Terry Gain

          You hate the Truth!

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 29, 2018 at 10:36 pm

          christianblood has said before that those who don’t love the horrors of Shari’ah in Iran are “hateful”.

      • Gamzu says

        Dec 29, 2018 at 10:20 pm

        “Taliban’s best fighters being trained by Iran”
        Article appearing in Sunday Times (of London) on Dec 30 2018.

        • Gamzu says

          Dec 29, 2018 at 10:25 pm

          And why does Iran subsidize Sunni groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, except to murder Jews? And how about those Hezbollah tunnels into Israel? To infiltrate tourists or terrorists?

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 29, 2018 at 10:41 pm

          In the end, Jihad against the Infidels trumps Islamic sectarian hatreds.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 1:45 pm

    Cyber Warfare from the “mullah regime” of Iran neatened be a shock to any person who understand that Islamic tyranny.
    Furthermore, President Trump has done better than Obama did on handling the subject of the dangers posed by the Islamic rogue state of Iran. It’s very obvious that President Trump had already done much better than Obama. In fact Obama could not have done much worse in the “dealing and negotiations ” with this “mullah regime’ than he did. Furthermore, It’s very obvious that the tyrants in power in this Islamic regime had and have no real or sincere intentions even for the start of keeping any of their promises in a nuclear “agreement deal” with Western nations. As for ,example , a “test firing” of a missile by Iran, In addition , it was reported on CBN on 5/7/16 only two days before this CBN report the Iran not only launched other “test firing” of missile. The “test firing” of that missile and it even had printed on that missile words in Hebrew that read “Israel must be wiped off the map.” There is no logical or valid evidence that the jihad-minded those in control of this Islamic tyranny have , in any way, changed their vicious and destructive intentions in their Islamic agenda against the State of Israel . There were other “test firing of other missiles by earlier this very year by the Islamic tyranny of Iran. This shows the gall and defiance of those mullahs and ayatollahs along those other Muslim villains in power in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran their total arrogant contempt for the US and the other Western nations in this so called “deal.” Those Muslim clerics and other Muslim tyrants in power in this cruel and oppressive Islamic tyranny are, in character, reflected in the Bible in Psalm 73:6-9. Which reads, “Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their mind know limits. They scoff and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.” [N.I.V.]

    In addition , On Tuesday, 9/25/ 18 in a speech President Trump spoke about that awful “deal” that was made with Iran and how terrible is was and that the sanctions lifted were lifted because of it didn’t help the Iranian people, at all and that money Iran received only lined the deep pockets of the mullahs in power in Iran and also further enabled that regime to “advance its bloody agenda “ in the fund and support of its proxy terror groups, such a Hezbollah and Hamas. The President therefore explain that the new sanctions imposes on this regime are necessary.
    Just the week before this speech by the President on 9/17 /18 ,the US Special Envoy for Iran of the State Department, Brain Hook, spoke at a press conference and he warned about that insidious “missile program” of Iran and he further spoke about that harsh and oppressive current regime of Iran and likewise declared that “The longest suffering victims of the Iranian regime are the Iranian people.”
    Likewise, an author of an article on a Freedom Site, Dariush Afshar, had explained the reality of the situation well when he wrote that the “People of Iran who fight for freedom in Iran and abroad put a huge gap and draw a prominent line between Iran and the Islamic regime in Tehran.”
    This is sadly and tragically the terrible reality of this Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran. This Islamic tyranny has been well nicknamed “the mullahs regime” in which them mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other fiendish and fanatical Muslims in power have a strong and awful control of the Islamic regime of Iran and through their band of Islamic state “police” , who are called the “Revolutionary Guards “come down hard human rights of the Iranian people . Therefore, the Iranian people who are trapped and forced to exist in this Islamic tyranny live in terrible fear of the mullahs and others in power in Iran. This is a tragic and sad reminder of the wisdom that was printed in the periodical of Benjamin Franklin which is entitled POOR RICHARDS’ ALMANAC that reads “Those who are feared are also hated.”

    This brutal and cruel and regime of the mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other villains in power and control in this tyranny of Iran which so falsely and inappropriately has the word “Republic” in its title. This “mullah regime” is oppressive both in the physical sense to the people of Iran and also in the informational way. In that this tyrannical regime severely limits the information the Iranian people receive for the outside world. It stands to reason that the mullahs and others in power in Iran afraid the people might start think for themselves if outside information is received so it’s strongly restricted. This is a reminder of the wise words the Thomas Jefferson had written. Which are “Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” Likewise, Mr. Jefferson had nobly declared “I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every from of tyranny over the mind of man.”

    The actual word “Republic” has on origin the Latin meaning “Of the people” With the mullahs ayatollahs in so much power and even influencing the parliament of this Islamic regime is tyranny is hardly a real republic .Furthermore the ruthless gang of thugs who are the stooges of those Muslim clerics, called the “Revolutionary Guards,” those Islamic State “police” come down hard on the human rights and freedoms of the Iranian people. Therefore the people do have the right to overthrow a tyranny. This reality had even been expressed and described by men of great intelligence .For example the philosopher .John Locke. This is wisdom that mullahs and other villains in power in that Islamic tyranny don’t want the Iranian people to know about or understand

  6. lisalles says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 2:11 pm

    While it probably true that Iran is waging cyber warfare ACROSS the globe, to use the Daily Express as your source is a bad idea. The Daily Express is a tabloid. It has no credibility. Fake news. Even though Iran is doing all these things. Your story has no credibility.

  7. gravenimage says

    Dec 29, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    Iran waging “cyber warfare” to “disrupt communication of dissidents” and “promote terrorism” worldwide
    …………………..

    No surprise here…

  8. Jay says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 1:26 am

    Take him out with a sniper!

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