Iran says West is waging ‘cyber war’ | Breaking Tweets

Iran says West is waging ‘cyber war’

Posted by Craig Kanalley on 6/22/09 • Categorized as Elections, Mideast, Technology

Per CNN, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hasan Qashqavi alleged on Monday that the West is behind a ‘cyber war’ on Iran, noting various Iranian Web sites had been hacked. The new rhetoric is a step up from previous statements from Iran, which said only that the West was ‘meddling’ in its affairs. Qashqavi singled out Western media like CNN and BBC for the attacks, as well as their respective governments, and said that Iranian lawmakers are discussing how to react to the foreign interference.

The anonymous Twitter account @IranRiggedElect reported the news first with the following tweet: “Iranian spokesman in this morning’s press conference seemed agitated. Complained about cyber war. #IranElection #Neda.”

Many Twitterers agree that a cyber war is underway:

  1. Victoria
    DiamondAria (Florida) On the frontline of the cyber-war: RT @christmasfairie Everyone attack khamenei’s website #iranelection 19 Jun 2009 from web
  2. Michael Pilla
    michaelpilla (Los Angeles, Calif.) Iran cyber war? RT @nishachittal RT @jaketapper @JimSciuttoABC is victim of pro-Ahmadinejad propaganda scam on twitter http://bit.ly/vwsUD 19 Jun 2009 from Power Twitter
  3. james
    mandelbrot5 (Iran) The thought just happened upon me that we are all soldiers in the worlds first cyber-war. #freeiran #freedom #mousavi #iranelections 20 Jun 2009 from web
  4. IranLiveUpdates
    IranLiveUpdates (Iran) The BBC says the brave Iranian population is one step ahead on the regimes sensor systems. They are winning the cyber war. #Iranelection 20 Jun 2009 from web
  5. Dondi West
    dondiw (Catonsville, Md.) Update on Iran-Twitter-US cyber war: http://tinyurl.com/n83fts 20 Jun 2009 from web
  6. Campbell
    CampbellX (East London, U.K.) Resource for cyber war and the Iran Elections. Help the protesters not the govt. #iranelection and #gr88 http://tiny.cc/KQ89Y 21 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck
  7. Rick Wood
    falwood (Southlake, Texas) Wow..twitter-cyber-war RT @moey0601 ..help jam Iranian government websites this link: http://91.199.0.11/ #iranelection #Iran, 21 Jun 2009 from Tweetie
  8. Tom Dicker
    TDicker (Marin, Calif.) 1st Full Cyber War begins: RT BILL_ROMANOS Canadian Cyber Espionage Network helps Iranians in Information war: http://tinyurl.com/nlbntf 22 Jun 2009 from web
  9. Alex McElroy
    Alexmcelroy (Undisclosed) @chris_lesiw It’s not just about waging a cyber war. Twitter is only being used as a means of getting the news out of the country. 18 Jun 2009 from Tweetie in reply to chris_lesiw
  10. aziebart
    aziebart (Undisclosed) New blog post: You call it a cyber war, I call it progress http://bit.ly/wxtjR #iranelection 19 Jun 2009 from web
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    We have not showed Twitter IDs from Iran since the beginning of our coverage. Please look at our past articles. We have paid particular attention to this. This article only includes Twitter IDs from ANONYMOUS accounts which cannot be traced. Thanks for your concern though.
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