NCRI – Facebook and other social networking sites are the among the biggest threats to Iran, a regime official has declared.Iraj Mohamad Khani, head of the Cyber Police in the northern province of Gilan, warned that western enemies used the Internet in their ‘soft war’ against the regime, state-run Fars News Agency reported on Monday
He said in a speech at Gilan University: “The virtual world is the most important, the most complex and the most convenient weapon for the enemy to use it in its soft war.
“Those who waste their life by membership in these websites should know that they are creating a sad and miserable future for themselves.”
Meanwhile, the state-run Etemed daily newspaper revealed the existence of an organization named ‘Hezbollah Cyber’, formed during the wave of anti-regime protests in 2009.
The organization had no website, no official registration and no clear identity but defined itself as being ‘an organization composed of big names in cyber activity who support the Supreme Leader’, the report said.