Iranian state TV streaming site targeted with dissident message

In this screenshot from video, a purported dissident message is seen from an online account calling itself “The Justice of Ali” that reportedly played overtop of an Iranian state television streaming feed on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. A streaming website that features Iranian state television programming has acknowledged suffering technical issues amid reports that dissident hackers played an anti-government message on the platform. The caption at the bottom of the image in Farsi reads: “The regime has tasted our blows and it will taste it again.” (AP Photo)

A streaming website that features Iranian state television programming has acknowledged suffering technical issues amid reports that dissident hackers played an anti-government message on the platform.

Telewebion said it suffered “infrastructure” irregularities and an archive failure on Tuesday, without elaborating on the cause.