Iran's Cyber Army Hacks 1,000 US, British, French Gov't Websites
News number: 8906081424 18:22 | 2010-08-30
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TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian cyber group announced that it has hacked more than
1,000 important governmental websites of the US, Britain and France in
protest at their support and financial aids to anti-Iran terrorist groups.

"To commemorate the Day of Campaign against Terrorism and the martyrdom
anniversary of (former Iranian President Mohammad Ali) Rajayee and (his
Prime Minister Mohammad Javad) Bahonar (by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq
Organization), the group rose to protest at the inhumane measures of the
supporters of terrorism, with the US and Britain standing on top of them,
through a new method and hacked and changed the pages of more than 1,000 of
their websites," Behrouz Kamalian, Head of the Iranian Ashiyaneh (nest)
cyber group, told FNA on Monday.

If you open the hacked sites now, you can see a logo of Iran and some
pictures of martyrs Rajaee and Bahonar and a bi-lingual text in Persian and
English expressing our group's protest at the US, Britain and France's
attitude towards terrorism, Kamalian added.

Noting that the project started on Saturday and continued until Monday
morning, he reminded that the group managed to hack more than 1,000
governmental sites of the aforementioned countries, including the official
website of Louisiana state in the US, Britain's Pevensey city council and
other websites.

"All of the hacked websites have been registered at this address:
www.zone-h.org," Kamalian added.

His remarks came after the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced
in March that its cyber teams have hacked 29 websites affiliated with the US
espionage network.

The IRGC has recently set up a new center to detect and combat organized
crimes on the internet.

The newly-established center is tasked with monitoring the internet to
detect and campaign against organized crimes, espionage, economic and social
corruption, money laundering and cultural inroad.

Iran has said many times in the past that the western government's support
for the MKO proves that their claims about advocating human rights are
nothing but lies.

The MKO members last month celebrated the anniversary of their group's bomb
attack on the central office of Jomhuri Eslami party in Tehran in 1981 in
which 72 party members, including senior Iranian political and religious
officials, were martyred.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the
international community, including the United States.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union's list of
terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO
puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited
Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

Some other members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a
large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in
France.

The group started assassination of Iranian citizens and officials after the
Islamic Revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic
Republic. It killed several of Iran's new leaders in the early years after
the revolution, including Rajayee, Bahonar and the then Judiciary Chief,
Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in
1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and
where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the
country.

Many of the MKO members have abandoned the terrorist organization while most
of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are
under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps
in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts
defectors under torture and jail terms.

Numerous articles and letters posted on the Internet by family members of
MKO recruits confirm reports of the horrific abuse that the group inflicts
on its own members and the alluring recruitment methods it uses.

The most shocking of such stories includes accounts given by former British
MKO member Ann Singleton and Mustafa Mohammadi -- the father of an
Iranian-Canadian girl who was drawn into the group during an MKO recruitment
campaign in Canada.

Mohammadi recounts his desperate efforts to contact his daughter, who
disappeared several years ago - a result of what the MKO called a 'two-month
tour' of Camp Ashraf for teenagers.

He also explains how the group forces the families of its recruits to take
part in pro-MKO demonstrations in Western countries by threatening to kill
their loved ones.

Lacking a foothold in Iran, the terrorist group recruits ill-informed teens
from Iranian immigrant communities in Western states and blocks their
departure afterwards.