Iran Unrest: Hackers disrupted Iranian state television transmissions to air footage supporting the country’s exiled crown prince. The footage aired on Sunday night across multiple channels broadcast by satellite from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The video aired two clips of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, then included footage of security forces. Reza Pahlavi is an Iranian politician and dissident in exile in the United States.
TEHRAN JANUARY 15: Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country’s exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,” online video showed early Monday, the latest disruption to follow nationwide protests in the country. Jennie Shin reports.
The footage aired on Sunday night across multiple channels broadcast by satellite from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, the country’s state broadcaster which has a monopoly on television and radio broadcasting. The video aired two clips of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, then included footage of security forces and others in what appeared to be Iranian police uniforms. It claimed without offering evidence others had “laid down their weapons and swore an oath of allegiance to the people.”
Reza Pahlavi (born 31 October 1960) is an Iranian politician and dissident in exile in the United States. A member of the Pahlavi dynasty, he is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, and Farah Diba. Born in Tehran, Iran, Reza Pahlavi was officially named crown prince of Iran at the time of his father’s coronation in 1967.
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