Chicago: Resistance activists in Iran disrupted parts of the country’s security apparatus, senior figures told Arab News, as the country prepares to mark the death anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of one of the world’s most repressive states. Is.
Protesters took control of security systems in several cities, including camera networks and servers, and used them to send text messages to more than 585,000 phones nationwide, calling for “regime change” and calling “a hopeless nation sick.” and is tired of destructive state policies.”
Ali Safavi, a member of the foreign affairs committee of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, told Arab News: “The taking of more than 5,000 security cameras and hundreds of their servers, which are specifically designed to identify and detain those who Part in the insurgency, the major Iranian opposition affiliated with the Mujahideen-e Khalq, is the latest in a series of similar offensive measures inside Iran, which began in late January.
“These daring operations undermine the regime’s efforts to project an aura of invincibility and omnipresence everywhere. More importantly, they encourage Iranians that there exists an organized opposition movement that can easily penetrate and harm the most secretive and tightly controlled regime agencies, and encourage them to oppose the ruling democracy. and encourages them to protest.
Safavi said security systems monitored Khomeini’s mausoleum, government offices and various places of importance in Tehran, and were used for surveillance by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, offices of Islamic Revolutionary Goes. Guard Corps, and State Security Force Command.
More than 150 sites belonging to Tehran’s largest municipalities were also confiscated, and slogans such as “Jai Ho Rajawi, Khamenei’s death” were broadcast along with photographs of Iran’s resistance leadership.
In addition, 168 computer servers controlled by the Iran Security Directorate and cameras used to monitor the daily lives of Iranian citizens were also seized.
The MEK and NCRI had accused Raisi, who became president last year, of being responsible for the massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners in 1988. With the support of 25 Nobel laureates, the Resistance has urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to organize an international event. Massacre Inquiry Commission.
The NCRI, backed by hundreds of members of the US Senate and House of Representatives, has claimed that resistance in Iran has engaged in constant disruptions and damage to the repressive regime.
Ayatollah Khomeini took control of Iran in February 1979, weeks after the country’s ruler, Shah Reza Pahlavi, fled the country due to nationwide protests. Khomeini then declared himself the leader for life, creating a new religious dictatorship. His followers stormed the US Embassy on November 4, 1979, and took 52 Americans hostage, imprisoning them for 444 days.
Khomeini died on 3 June 1989 and was succeeded by Khamenei, who oversaw a regime that killed more than 10,000 dissidents, killed hundreds of opponents in more than 40 countries, and thousands during protests. and killed civilians.