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BBC Cyber-Attacked By Iranian Activists?
- The Guardian , Thursday, March 15, 2012 3 AM
In what it suspects was the latest attack, email access within some part of the BBC for disrupted for four hours two days after the broadcaster boasted it had nearly doubled its Persian TV audience in two years, to 6 million people. The sophisticated cyber-attack is suspected of being the latest attempt by Iranian authorities to threaten BBC Persian TV, which the corporation nevertheless believes is watched by one in 10 Iranian citizens each week.
The Farsi-language channel has been regularly jammed since it launched in 2009, and several BBC journalists have been detained or intimidated in Iran in the past 12 months.
