Iran’s atomic energy agency claimed on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of an unidentified foreign country infiltrated its subsidiary’s network and gained unfettered access to its email system.
An anonymous hacking group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Iran’s atomic energy agency and demanded Tehran release political prisoners arrested during recent nationwide protests. The group leaked 50 gigabytes of internal emails, contracts and construction plans related to Iran’s Russia-backed Bushehr nuclear power plant, and said it shared the files on its Telegram channel. It was unknown whether the compromised system contained sensitive information.
The hack sparked nationwide chaos in Iran in the wake of the Sept. 16 death of Martha Amini, a 22-year-old woman detained by police for failing to adhere to Iran’s strict Islamic dress code. It happened while I was still facing it. On Sunday, Iran’s main teachers’ association reported that sit-ins canceled classes at multiple schools across the country in protest of the government’s crackdown on student protesters.
The protests initially focused on Iranian government-mandated hijabs, or headscarves, for women, but have turned into one of the most serious challenges for the country’s ruling clergy. They clashed and even called for the collapse of the Islamic Republic itself. Rights groups estimated that security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas to disperse the demonstrations, killing more than 200 people.
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Iran’s civilian nuclear weapons department said hackers had compromised an email system used by the company that operates the country’s only nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr. The agency blamed a “foreign country” for the attack without elaborating. Iran has previously accused the US and Israel of cyberattacks that have damaged the country’s infrastructure.
“These illegal efforts out of desperation are aimed at attracting public attention,” the organization said.
An anonymous hacking group calling themselves “Black Reward” has released files on Telegram that appear to detail the contract, construction plans and equipment for the Bushel plant, which was brought online in 2011 with the help of Russia.
“Unlike Westerners, we do not flirt with mullah criminals,” the group wrote.
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Meanwhile, Iran’s main teacher association, the Teachers’ Union Coordination Council, which has been vocal in the protests, said on Sunday that schools, mostly in Iran’s Kurdish province, have protested past student deaths and detentions. They reported that they heeded calls to boycott classes. unrest month. There was no immediate approval of the strike from the authorities.
Pictures of teachers holding protest signs reading ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ instead of teaching in schools in Sanandaj, Maliban, Kermanshah, the Kurdish cities of Saqez, West Azerbaijan and the mountainous Hamadan province shared the
“Schools were turned into barracks and tear gas was thrown in the faces of primary school children,” one teacher wrote in a letter shared by the union. “History will record the name of this brave generation.”
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The campus has long been the source of Iranian unrest, including during student protests under the Western-backed king in 1953 and pro-democracy demonstrations under former reformist president Mohammad Khatami in 1999. has become a point.
Protesters at the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran at the site of an hours-long siege by security forces that arrested dozens of students earlier this month as students demolished a barrier separating men and women in the campus cafeteria. broke out. said the student council.
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“Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” A large group of students shouted and raised their fists in the air.