Guards Corps warns Iran activists against cyber protests

Washington, 17 June (WashingtonTV)—Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC] issued a statement today in which it warned online activists that if they fan the flames of “disorder on the streets,” they will face “legal confrontation” by the IRGC, which will have “grave results”.

Addressing the people of Iran, the IRGC said in the statement: “Unfortunately, currents which deviate from the principles and values of the revolution, have been behind all the disorder in the country in the past few years…and the disorder in these days, which has resulted in hooligans and vandals assaulting people’s lives, possessions, and honor, is the result of a designed, pre-planned scenario on their part.”

In its statement, the IRGC said that “the argument over the election and the number of votes and the winner, have only been a pretext for generating insecurity and riot.”

It adds that “with precise examination of the country’s cyberspace, the Center for the Investigation of Organized Crime has encountered numerous instances of deviant news websites, which have changed [their] approach and created numerous sites and weblogs to disturb the public, publicize riots and create disorder on the street, and with their lies, fabricated accusations and organized riots, they continue their illegal actions of sabotaging and disrupting order and public security.”

The IRGC warned “those who publicize disorder and threats to the people and spread rumors in cyberspace, to take action to eliminate such content.”

Source: ILNA

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(Original article written in Persian.)