Irate Iranian Government Denounces...Everything

June 22. 2009

Video: Reports: Tear Gas Used on Iranian Protestors - The Associated Press

The Iranian government continues to wrongfully blame the West for its woes in an election gone wrong. In spite of the fact they had to concede there was voter fraud, they do not plan on sufficiently addressing the problem, opting to use force and bloodshed in an attempt to enforce a corrupt vote and maintain order, in the face of ongoing protests.

In other news, hackers have started targeting websites favorable to incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while also waging cyber war against other government websites in Iran. The Iranian foreign minister blamed the U.S. government for this development, with no proof presented to support these claims.

Iranian hacktivists hand-crank DDoS attack

Farsi hackers do without botnets. The controversial outcome of the Iranian elections has spawned a parallel conflict on the internet. The cyberconflict is more akin to hand-to-hand fighting than the more sophisticated botnet-powered assaults that have accompanied political conflicts involving Russia and its neighbours over recent months.

Cyber attacks against pro-Ahmadinejad (government) websites have largely been driven by hand, in sharp contrast to the botnet-fuelled attacks associated with cyberconflicts between Russia and Estonia, for example. Security watchers are describing the Iranian conflict as a "crowd sourced cyber-war", featuring DIY denial of service attack tools, web page “refresher” tools and PHP scripts, security blogger Dancho Danchev reports.

"Rather than using simple code, with automated viral botnets and the like, these efforts are largely being driven by hand. There are a number of simple scripts going around that can be downloaded and which continually reload the target Web sites in a browser window," said Jim Cowie, CTO of security tools firm Renesys, Net Effect reports.

Although there is little or no DDoS traffic against opposition websites, they too are being affected because of government-imposed limits of Iranian international bandwidth...

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Iran says West is waging ‘cyber war’

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...

http://www.breakingtweets.com

Iran admits 50 cities had more votes than voters

June 22, 2009 - In 50 Iranian cities the number of votes cast in this month presidential election exceeded the number of eligible voters, the state's election watchdog admitted today.

The surprising admission by the Guardian Council was, however, designed to undermine the claims of the defeated candidates that the vote was rigged.

Mir Hossein Mousavi, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's main rival in the hotly-disputed election, and the other two losing candidates have claimed that the vote exceeded eligible voters in as many as 170 districts.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk