Cyber-activists supporting the protest movement in Iran announced on Saturday that they interrupted the online broadcast by state television of a speech by President Ebrahim Raisi marking the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
The Edalat-e Ali group posted a video of the alleged speech interruption on Twitter, which was replaced by a video calling on Iranians to withdraw their money from the regime's '
corrupt
' banks and take to the streets this week. next.
"
Death to Khamenei
", "
death to the Islamic Revolution
" and "
death to the Islamic Republic
", can be read on the video.
“
Many compatriots have contacted us and asked us to echo the call (for the demonstrations) of February 16,
” added the group, which would be the second hack of state television in support of the movement. of protest provoked by the death of Mahsa Amini.
In October, Edalat-e Ali interrupted the live broadcast on state television of a meeting between the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and officials, to display on the screen the text: "
Your hands carry the blood of our youth
”.
Thousands of Iranians arrested
Iran has been the scene of a protest movement since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, who died three days after her arrest in Tehran by the morality police who accused her of having violated the country's strict dress code.
In a speech delivered on Saturday in Azadi Square, Tehran, President Raisi affirmed that "
the enemy had been defeated
" by "
the Iranian nation
" which, by gathering that day, had again "
pledged allegiance
" to the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian authorities generally see the demonstrations as "
riots
" fomented, according to them, by foreigners and in particular by the sworn enemy of Iran, the United States, as well as their allies like Israel.
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They claim that hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed in the context of the protests, which have diminished in scale in recent weeks.
Thousands of Iranians, including artistic personalities, lawyers and journalists, have been arrested.
