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Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter

Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter

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.

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.

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 - @StopAhmadi @IranRiggedElect @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.

   JPost, a major news organization, promoted these three Twitterers who went on the be the source of the IranElection Twitter bombardment. Why is JPost so concerned about Iranian students all of a sudden (which these spammers claim to be)? I must admit that I had my suspicions. 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.

   Mousavi himself plays an important role in causing the social unrest within Iran. How often do you see a candidate declare himself the winner before any votes are counted and then, when faced with defeat, call the entire election process a fraud? As obvious as it was in our own 2000 election, Al Gore would not touch the topic of voter fraud. No major US politician goes near the subject. They know full well that such an accusation would shake the entire foundation of our democracy and threaten the political structures that are in place.

   These twitting spammers began crying foul before the final votes were even counted, just as Mousavi had. The spammer @IranRiggedElect created his profile before a winner was announced and preformed the public service of informing us in the United States , in English and every 10 minutes, of the unfair election. He did so selfishly, and without any regard for his fellow friends and citizens of Iran, who don’t speak English.

   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.

   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 for the JPost Article

   Disclaimer: Before I get attacked as being an Anti-Semite,you should know that I am, in fact, half Jewish. Alternatively, I hope that people do not misinterpret this as some “JEWISH” conspiracy. It isn’t. These are the workings of the extreme right wing of Israeli politics. They have their own Bush’s and Cheney’s there too.

   -- ongefuckinglovelijk wat een jodenstreek --
   En deze TWITTER accounts worden OVERGENOMEN door de Westerse MASSAMEDIA en worden voor geschoven als FEIT.

   Kan dit op de VP?

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