US, Israel launch CYBERWAR to destabilize Iran

Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter

Charting Stocks Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Right-wing Israeli interests are engaged in an all out Twitter attack with hopes of delegitimizing the Iranian election and causing political instability within Iran.

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Anyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully). The Twitter popularity caught the eye of various blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch and even made its way to mainstream news media sites.

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Were these legitimate Iranian people or the works of a propaganda machine? I became curious and decided to investigate the origins of the information. In doing so, I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days. Each of them had some striking similarities -

1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th. 2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles. 3. "IranElection" was each of their most popular keyword 4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH. 5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo 6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.

Why were these tweets in English? Why were all of these profiles OBSESSED with Iran? It became obvious that this was the work of a team of people with an interest in destabilizing Iran. The profiles are phonies and were created with the sole intention of destabilizing Iran and effecting public opinion as to the legitimacy of Iran's election.

I narrowed the spammers down to three of the most persistent - twitter.com/StopAhmadi @StopAhmadi @ twitter.com/IranRiggedElect IranRiggedElect twitter.com/Change_for_Iran @Change_For_Iran

I decided to do a google search for 2 of the 3 - @StopAhmadi and @IranRiggedElect. The first page to come up was JPost (Jerusalem Post) which is a right wing newspaper pro-Israeli newspaper.

JPost actually ran a story about 3 people "who joined the social network mere hours ago have already amassed thousands of followers." Why would a news organization post a story about 3 people who JUST JOINED TWITTER hours earlier? Is that newsworthy? Jpost was the first (and only to my knowledge) major news source that mentioned these 3 spammers.

The fact that JPost promoted these three Twitterers who went on the be the source of the IranElection Twitter bombardment is, unfortunately, evidence that this was an Israeli propaganda campaign against Iran. I must admit that

I had my suspiscions. After all, Que Bono? (latin for "Who Benefits). There's no question that Israel perceives Iran as an enemy, more so than any other nation. Destabilizing the country would benefit them.

Meet the spammers

IranRiggedElect 3146 followers. 31 friends. 340 tweets in past 4 days. none before that. Top 5 words - iranelection, cnnfail, mousavi, tehran, All tweets in English Time: Bulk between 12pm and 2pm eastern standard time Most retweets: @StopAhmadi @IranElection09 @change_for_iran

Change_for_Iran 14,000 followers. 0 friends 117 tweets in 2 days. none before that. All tweets in English Time: Bulk between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm eastern. Top 5 words: iranelection, people, police, right, students No retweets

IranElection09 800 followers. 9 friends. 196 tweets in 3 days. none before that. 185 in English. 11 in Farsi (Arabic appearing letters. Not sure if it's Farsi) Time: bulk between 2:00pm and 6:00pm eastern. Also 1:00am. Top 5 words: iranelection, rt, mousavi, tehran, march Most retweets: @IranRiggedElect @StopAhmadi

StopAhmadi 6199 followers. 53 friends. 1107 tweets in past 3 days. None before then. top 5 words: iranelection, ppl, news, rt, iran. All tweets in English Time: bulk between 9:00am and 5:00pm eastern Most retweets: @mohamadreza @mahdi

mohamadreza 1433 followers. 142 friends (protected account. cant see data)

The following all have the same photo in their profile and are followed by the profiles previously mentioned.

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http://twitter.com/SadeqEn http://twitter.com/greenvote http://twitter.com/Change_for_Iran (14,000 followers) http://twitter.com/iranbaan http://twitter.com/sdavood http://twitter.com/IranElection09 (800 followers. 9 friends.)

Click below for the JPost Article

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/proof-israeli-effort-to-destabilize-iran-via-twitter/

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