WTF Iran? Twitter hacked and oil well seized
Either Iran just got real aggressive in the last 24 hours or someone is out to make the Islamic Republic look bad. Real bad. First, last night, Twitter goes down. And it's replaced by this 1995-future-world "You got hacked" graphic.
Now I've never heard of the Iranian Cyber Army, but I commend them on using Gmail, which is really the superior web-based email service. The group's website did not tie them directly to the government, though a Farsi poem on the home page would point to them being supporters of the government.
Meanwhile, in Iraq, authorities claim that Iranian soldiers have seized an oil well near Amara, just across the border from Iran. Iran's government has denied the claim and I've yet to find any independent source confirming the report.
So did the Islamic Republic decide to tear it up Thursday night (it is the new Friday, I hear)? Are its supporters lashing out (government-friendly hackers and an independently acting group of soldiers?). Or is there a plot to sully Iran's image underway?
Theories?
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Now I've never heard of the Iranian Cyber Army, but I commend them on using Gmail, which is really the superior web-based email service. The group's website did not tie them directly to the government, though a Farsi poem on the home page would point to them being supporters of the government.
Several lines of poetry in Farsi at the bottom of the “Cyber Army” page refer to the “Leader,” which is the common term used in Iran for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, suggesting that those who were behind the message could have been loyalists to Iran's Islamic system of rule. The verses read: “If the Leader orders, we will rush forward / If he asks us, we will offer our heads / If he wants us to be patient, we will tolerate and bear it.”
Meanwhile, in Iraq, authorities claim that Iranian soldiers have seized an oil well near Amara, just across the border from Iran. Iran's government has denied the claim and I've yet to find any independent source confirming the report.
So did the Islamic Republic decide to tear it up Thursday night (it is the new Friday, I hear)? Are its supporters lashing out (government-friendly hackers and an independently acting group of soldiers?). Or is there a plot to sully Iran's image underway?
Theories?
Recently on the Current News Blog:
- Is there a coup coming in Pakistan?
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