{"id":3307,"date":"2025-06-24T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:11:12","slug":"iran-israel-war-seizure-of-entekhab-website-cyberattacks-on-etemad-online-and-ilna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/iran-israel-war-seizure-of-entekhab-website-cyberattacks-on-etemad-online-and-ilna\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Israel War: Seizure of Entekhab Website, Cyberattacks on Etemad Online and ILNA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On the eleventh day of the Iran-Israel war, the Entekhab news website in Iran was seized and taken offline on charges of \u201cdisrupting public psychological security.\u201d Concurrently, the websites of Etemad Online and the ILNA news agency were targeted by cyberattacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/%d8%ac%d9%86%da%af-%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a6%db%8c%d9%84%d8%9b-%d8%aa%d9%88%d9%82%db%8c%d9%81-%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%b3%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%86\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/%d8%ac%d9%86%da%af-%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a6%db%8c%d9%84%d8%9b-%d8%aa%d9%88%d9%82%db%8c%d9%81-%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%b3%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%86\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mizan<\/a>, the official news agency of Iran\u2019s judiciary, reported on 23 June 2025 that the Entekhab news and analysis website had been shut down. Mizan stated regarding the charges: \u201cDue to Entekhab\u2019s failure to heed repeated warnings against publishing news that targets public psychological security, the site was blocked a few hours ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day, ILNA (Iran Labor News Agency) and Etemad Online were subjected to cyberattacks by unidentified actors. As a result, some content published on these platforms was deleted, certain reports were altered, and new articles were posted on both outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Mizan, amid the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the managing director of Entekhab had received \u201cmultiple warnings\u201d from what Mizan referred to as \u201csupervisory authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term \u201cwarning\u201d has become a frequently used keyword in news related to press suppression in Iran over the past year. It appears that, due to extensive extralegal actions against media and journalists, which have created a negative public perception of terms like \u201cprosecution\u201d and \u201clegal case,\u201d the judiciary is attempting to replace these legal terms with less negatively charged expressions such as \u201cwarning,\u201d without altering the level of suppression or legal processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the war between Iran and Israel continues, Iran\u2019s judiciary has initiated legal proceedings against several media outlets and journalists, issued warnings to numerous media organizations, and sustained a widespread wave of arrests targeting citizens who expressed opinions related to the military conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eleventh day of the Iran-Israel war, the Entekhab news website in Iran was seized and taken offline on charges of \u201cdisrupting public psychological security.\u201d Concurrently, the websites of Etemad Online and the ILNA news agency were targeted by cyberattacks. Mizan, the official news agency of Iran\u2019s judiciary, reported on 23 June 2025 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,89,26],"tags":[419,424,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-3307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-news-highlights","9":"category-repression-of-media","10":"tag-entekhab","11":"tag-etemad-online","12":"tag-ilna"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deffi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}