The Biden administration, meanwhile, is doing all it can to prop up the Islamic regime in Tehran.
“Hackers Show Dissident Photos On Iranian State Television, Call For Khamenei’s Death,” RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, January 27, 2022:
Hackers gained access to several Iranian state television channels and broadcast pictures of an exiled dissident group, as well as a message saying Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should be executed.
According to the state TV reports on January 27, the faces of Masud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, were suddenly superimposed on a regular 3 p.m. news broadcast as a male voice chanted, “Salute to Rajavi, death to Khamenei.”
The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is the main faction within the exiled opposition umbrella organization, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The opposition group, which has not taken responsibility for the attack, seeks to overthrow Iran’s theocratic regime.
Masud Rajavi has not been seen in public in almost two decades and is presumed to have died. His wife, Maryam, now runs the MEK.
State broadcaster IRIB said in a statement that the hack lasted about 10 seconds.
“Our colleagues are investigating the incident. This is an extremely complex attack and only the owners of this technology could exploit and damage the back doors and features that are installed on the systems,” IRIB Deputy Chief Ali Dadi told the state TV channel IRINN.
“Similar disruptions happened to the Koran Channel, Radio Javan and Radio Payam,” he added, referring to other state-affiliated broadcast channels….
SKA says
MEK may seem preferable to the current regime but they have an authoritarian history in their ideology and attacks. They have bamboozled western politicians with pretenses of being democrats. They actually are quasi Marxists.
gravenimage says
Sadly true, SKA. Good to see *some* opposition to the Mullahs, though, of whatever stripe.
mortimer says
The US should be working with the Iranian opposition to create a counter-revolution. When the people catch them, the mullahs will swing from the lamp posts.
gravenimage says
I know you keep saying this, Mortimer, but it hasn’t happened in over forty years now. Not sure we should be holding our breath. Officially, at least, 99.38% of Iranians are Muslim.
Walter Sieruk says
That despicable “president” pretender Biden and his administration will give that aggressive hostile vicious tyrannical Islamic everything it wants.
Those demonically ambitious and sinister jihad –minded Muslims who have all the power in that hostile and menacing Islamic regime of Iran will continue in the unreasoning Islamic quest in the manufacture and construction of nuclear weapons. Therefore any so called “negotiation” with the officials of the Islamic “Republic” of Iran is a complete and total waste of time and effort.
For those disingenuous and outright lying officials of that aggressive, brutal and deceptive tyrannical Islamic state will only speak the truth only then it happens to suite them. Likewise, those in control and power in that “mullah tyranny” of Iran will only keep any of the promises they many happen to make only as long as it would suite them and no longer.
Furthermore, that fiendish President of Iran ,Raisi in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran it’s now a rather appropriate time to bring out the fact that if the founder of the current Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini would still be alive today ,he would spit on Joe Biden.
The reason is that Biden had publicly declared and claimed, “Islam is a non-violent religion” In other words he said that “Islam is not a religion of violence.”
Pseudo President Biden is a liar and the Muslim clerics of Iran know that.
For as Ayatollah Khomeini had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam.
As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
Therefore if Khomeini alive and well in this year of 2021 he would spit upon Joe Biden.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.