Iranians beware! Suspicious Google warning on emails

WASHINGTON, September 9, 2011 (AFP) - Google has advised users of its online services in Iran to change their passwords following the theft of Internet security certificates from a Dutch company.

"We learned last week that the compromise of a Dutch company involved with verifying the authenticity of websites could have put the Internet communications of many Iranians at risk, including their Gmail," Google vice president of security engineering Eric Grosse said.

"While users of the Chrome browser were protected from this threat, we advise all users in Iran to take concrete steps to secure their accounts," Grosse said in a blog post late Thursday.

Iranians were advised to change their passwords, pay attention to warnings that pop up in Web browsers and to block unfamiliar websites and applications that are allowed to access an account.

They were also told to check Gmail settings for suspicious forwarding addresses.

The Dutch secret service has opened an investigation to determine who falsified 531 Internet security certificates in order to snoop on users in Iran, the Dutch Interior Ministry said Tuesday.

The falsified certificates, known as SSL certificates, belonged to Dutch company DigiNotar.

SSL certificates are used to verify to visitors that a particular website is authentic and are issued by DigiNotar and other firms known as Certification Authorities.

Internet users whose browsers are fooled by a false certificate could unwittingly reveal their activity to another party in what is known as a "man-in-the-middle attack."

Google said last week that it had "received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle attacks against Google users, whereby someone tried to get between them and encrypted Google services.

"The people affected were primarily located in Iran," said Heather Adkins, an information security manager at Google.

Iran: Uprising in Clip uploaded by phone

Clip from February uprising that was hushed up by clerics in Iran uploaded.
The frasi reads :
Who do you think you ae sacring and attesting? ( to the Iranian clerics) We are more than 70 million. I uploaded this with my phone with much difficulty only to prove that we are alive and there.

Dear Hillary,I am afraid I am going to be murdered.

Dear Hillary,
My father was tortured to
death by
Iranian government
in 2008 since he was a
supporter of Mujahedine- Khalq
(MEK)
opposition movement.So was my sister,Faezeh,
20
who was killed along with 35 others
by Iraqi forces in Camp Ashraf
on April 8.
US Congressmen were
prevented from visiting us
here
in Ashraf after the
attack.
Now I await my fate in Camp
Ashraf with
my mother, two
brothers and 3,400 other men
and women. The U.S. had
promised
us PROTECTION! Instead, the
State Department has listed us as
terrorists, the excuse for Iraqi
government to murder us.
Save us by
removing the MEK from
the State Department terrorist list.

The NationalAssociationof Iranian Academics in Britain - Tel: 00447785 231606/email: naia-uk@yahoo.co.uk
My name is Shaghayegh.
I am 14 and live in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

MEK provides hope for Iranian people

Sadegh Sistani - 8/5/2011

Much has been said and discussed about the MEK/PMOI in the press and among policy makers, some behind closed doors and others in high-level diplomatic meetings. The most prominent Iranian opposition group (Mojahedin as known by the Iranian people) is a main battleground which will determine lives of millions in Iran and the whole region.

The charge that the MEK has no support in Iran is, frankly, baseless.
The 2009 uprisings and latest official purge within the clerical hierarchy leave no doubt for appeasers that democracy is void in Iran and therefore it would be only self suicide for any Iranian to display an iota of sympathy for the MEK, which is classified as “Moharebe”* by a fatwa released by Khomeini.

I endured 17 years of prison and torture under the clerical regime in Iran.
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Ambassador Butler: Must Apologize to Iranian Political Prisoners and Families

By Mahin Saremi

Former political prisoner, activist of the 2009 election uprisings


"These people slaughtered Americans. They have blood on their hands."

If you guessed that this proclamation was to persecute and reveal the Godfather of State Terrorism, responsible for numerous assassination operations in Iraq killing US marines and soldiers to be The Iranian regime, you are completely mistaken
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Saba Haftbaradaran: I am a Freedom fighter and seek democracy for Iran

I am 27. I was shot by al Maliki forces.

They came into our city “Ashraf” one morning to kill us all.

They had told the world that we are terrorists and that we are a cult and also spies and have no right to have our own land and home.

They had said that it is not in their best interest to have us there since we had made millions of friends with the tribes and 5 million had signed a petition to support us.

They said that Khamanei , Iranian supreme leader , was very much upset that we use language to express our dissatisfaction for the stoning to death of women and killing of juveniles and lashing in public and torturing to death political prisoners and massacring them in prison in tens.

They said this language is not accepted. They also said we cannot walk in our own city with what we like to wear! I felt like I was in Iran first … But things came worst!

They took away our freedom to go out of our city and visit shops and the town.. So we had to make our own shopping centre. Then they stopped all we had bought and asked to be delivered to our home, so we had to grow our own agriculture and make our own bread . It got even worst.

They said no help can come in to Ashraf, since anyone coming in can find you pleasing and this is not accepted. So we had to stop our neighboring tribes from visiting us and sharing our mosque and our hospital services. They even arrested some of our nice friends who used to come to help us in the daily work of the city.

I thought it was going to end here, but it got even worst. One day we heard a great explosion, then out water pump stopped. We had no water for drinking or for any possible need. So we had to work day and night to fix it temporarily.

Then they restricted us in our daily activities and we were under close observation by the Iraqis stationed around the city. I felt as if , our beautiful city in an Oasis was becoming our Prison.

I felt sick, since , we had all escaped Iranian dungeons to a place we had earned through the hard work and sweat of our brows. All we have is all we made and we labored for. This was our pride. Ashraf was independent, free and full of lively, smart and ambitious activists. Each with his or her own history book to tell the world. Each being a symbol of resistance against the main global threat (Iranian mullahs), fundamentalist suppression and Mullahs idea of Islam. Each had a world to give to others who needed someone to tell them about practical experience of how to face the Beast of Islamic fundamentalism ..

But, today it seemed, the landmark for suppression of all of my dear friends is whether we are still persisting to stand for Freedom, stand for our pride and stand for our long lost dignity. They wanted to crush us. Not only physically, but totally obliterate us and our generation. They are deeply mistaken. They cannot kill an idea, they cannot hang willpower and they cannot make me kneel before their bullets.

Saba was shot in cold blood, on April 2011, while she had a placard in her hand saying “why are you pushing us out of our home?” She was left to bleed to death by direct order of the General in control of the massacre in Ashraf to waste time so that she does not live the bullet through. Her father who was with her, in a letter says:

“ Saba was so innocent and only looked around her as she was bleeding to death. All I could do was to demand for a person responsible to come to us and clarify the reason for which we were stalled for more than 13 hours and had not yet reached a Doctor, dispute the fact that we were supposed to get to Baghube hospital.

The so called responsible person who was the lieutenant came to me and said “Do you want your daughter alive? You had best leave the PMOI , and come with us . Leave this groups and the resistance and come with us. In this case you will have all te benefits and we shall treat your daughter”.

Mr. Haftbaradan said in his letter. “I was shocked!. If it was not the fact that I was actually in Iraq, I would have thought that I was sent back to the notorious EVIN dungeons under the Iranian Pasdran torturers… Do we not have the right to love and have our own brains intact and our own likes to support? Are we not human beings? Or even war prisoners? Which International standard allows such suppressive and tortuous methods?”

Saba died a gradual death. But before she died, this 27 year old graduate of law, who loved her fellow students in Iran all through her activities only said :

“We” .. “We shall not give in. We shall stand till the end “.