{"id":519,"date":"2022-10-10T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taliyah.org\/newdawn\/?p=519"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:18:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:18:35","slug":"iranian-state-tv-hacked-live-by-revolutionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taliyah.org\/newdawn\/iranian-state-tv-hacked-live-by-revolutionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian State TV Hacked LIVE by Revolutionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran’s state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday, with a news bulletin interrupted by a protest against the country’s leader.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A mask appeared on the screen, followed by an image of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with flames around him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The group called itself “Adalat Ali”, or Ali’s Justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It comes after at least three people were shot dead when protesters clashed with security forces in new unrest over the death of Mahsa Amini.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Amini was detained in Tehran by morality police for allegedly not covering her hair properly. The 22-year-old Iranian Kurd died in custody on 16 September, three days after her arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her death has sparked an unprecedented wave of protest across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Saturday’s TV news bulletin at 21:00 (17:30 GMT) was interrupted with images which included Iran’s supreme leader with a target on his head, photos of Ms Amini and three other women killed in recent protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the captions read “join us and rise up”, whilst another said “our youths’ blood is dripping off your paws”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The interruption lasted only a few seconds before being cut off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Such displays of rebellion against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are historically rare, and he wields almost complete power within Iran. But following Ms Amini’s death, there has been widespread open dissent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Also on Saturday, social media videos emerged which seemed to show female students at a university in Tehran chanting “get lost” during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Earlier in the day, two people were killed in Sanandaj, including a man shot in his car after he sounded his horn in support of protesters. A video shared online also showed a woman shot in the neck lying unconscious on the ground in Mashhad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In Sanandaj, a police official said a man had been killed by “counter-revolutionaries”, the state-run news agency IRNA reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Friday, Iran’s Forensic Medicine Organization said Ms Amini had died from multiple organ failure caused by cerebral hypoxia – and not from blows to the head, as her family and protesters contend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rights groups say more than 150 people have been killed since the protests in the Islamic Republic began on 17 September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Shops in several cities have shut in support of the protesters, including in Tehran’s bazaar where some set fire to a police kiosk and chased the security forces away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The protests reaching the bazaar in Tehran will ring alarm bells with Iranian leaders who have counted the merchants as among their supporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n