BREAKING: Group Claiming To Be Iranian Hacks U.S. Government Website

A group claiming to be from Iran hacked a U.S. government website on Saturday night, which comes as tensions between the United States and Iran reached new heights after the U.S. killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, which is a designated terrorist organization.

FOX 5 reporter Lauren DeMarco tweeted, “Right now: Working to learn more but the Federal Depository Library Program website appears to have been hacked by someone claiming to be from Iran.” Journalist Yashar Ali tweeted a screenshot of the website’s preview tile on Google, writing, “Looks like a group claiming to be Iranian hackers has hacked the Federal Depository Library Program website … It’s been shut down for now.” Fox News reporter Andres Del Aguila reported that a former senior US Government National Security official told Fox News, “It has the feel of being pretty insignificant…they just hacked a website that most Washington insiders don’t know existed…Honestly, this is not very hard…this website had very weak security.” Del Aguila added, “The source suspects this hack was not done by the Iranian government but instead by a sympathizer or proxy group.”

The Spectator Index tweeted out a screenshot of the way that the Federal Depository Library Program appeared during the hack. Politico reported on Saturday that in recent years Iranian hackers “have wiped the computer servers of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, crippled a Las Vegas casino [owned by GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson], breached the networks of dozens of U.S. banks and been accused of trying to meddle in the 2020 presidential election.” “Tehran is widely considered to be one of the world’s most malicious online actors — alongside China, Russia and North Korea — and has a lengthy rap sheet of transgressions with an increasingly sophisticated arsenal of digital weapons,” Politico added. One of its specialties is so-called wiper attacks, in which malicious software erases the hard drives of infected computers. Those include a massive 2012 hack on the Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco that is reported to have debilitated an estimated 30,000 computers.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-group-claiming-to-be-iranian-hacks-u-s-government-website/

Iran’s retaliation could be hacking, not bombs

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/03/iran-retaliation-qassem-soleimani-093608

Britain Backs Trump on Iran, Deploys Royal Navy to Persian Gulf

The United Kingdom defended the actions of the Trump administration in Iran, saying the United States is “entitled to defend itself” against Iranian aggression and deploying the Royal Navy to the Persian Gulf to protect shipping vessels flying the British flag. The Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, expressed support for America’s decision to take out Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani, citing the violence committed in Iraq by Iran-backed militias.

“During the last few months U.S. forces in Iraq, who are based in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government, have been repeatedly attacked by Iranian-backed militia”, Wallace said, in comments reported by The Telegraph. “General Soleimani has been at the heart of the use of proxies to undermine neighbouring sovereign nations and target Iran’s enemies. Under international law the United States is entitled to defend itself against those posing an imminent threat to their citizens”, the Defence Secretary concluded.

In response to escalating tensions after the death of Soleimani, the United Kingdom has deployed the Royal Navy to the Strait of Hormuz, to protect British shipping vessels in the Persian Gulf from retaliatory strikes from Iran. Royal Navy warships have not patrolled the strait since November, when the navy had been protecting British ships after Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero, in July of last year. The ship was finally released by Iran in September.

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Dominic Raab, speaking today to the BBC, also defended the killing of Soleimani. “My view is — and the operational assessment has been done by the Americans — is that there is a right of self-defence,” Raab said. “It was General Soleimani’s job description to engage proxies, militias across not just Iraq but the whole region, not just to destabilize those countries but to attack Western countries… In those circumstances, the right of self-defence clearly applies”, he added. On Saturday the British Foreign Office warned British citizens not to travel to Iraq, where the United Kingdom still has 400 military personnel stationed, for fear of Iranian reprisals, saying that British citizens “could be arbitrarily detained or arrested in Iran”. The defence by the United Kingdom of President Trump’s actions against Iran comes in stark contrast to the response of other European nations, many of whom have shied away from supporting America. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State for the United States, chastised the country’s supposed allies in Europe for not supporting the strike against Soleimani. “[I have been] talking to our partners in other places that haven’t been quite as good — frankly, the Europeans haven’t been as helpful as I wish that they could be”, said Pompeo. “The Brits, the French, the Germans, all need to understand that what we did, what the Americans did, saved lives in Europe as well… We’re not going to appease [Iran] any longer”, he added.

Jeremy Corbyn, the 70-year-old far-left leader of Britain’s Labour Party — who referred to the killing of Soleimani as a “U.S. assassination” — has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to convene the Privy Council and denounced the “belligerent actions and rhetoric” actions of the United States. “The U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani is an extremely serious and dangerous escalation of conflict in the Middle East with global significance”, he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/05/britain-backs-trump-on-iran-deploys-royal-navy-to-persian-gulf/

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Their all coming out of the woodwork now…pretty easy to spot.