Iran Military Banned from Using Electronic Communication Devices After Pager Attacks in Lebanon

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has banned its members from using all electronic communication devices following deadly attacks in Lebanon last week in which pagers and walkie-talkies were used as explosives.

A large-scale operation is currently being conducted by Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials to monitor all electronic devices. ReutersThe decision came amid concerns by Iranian officials that their staff may have been infiltrated by Israeli agents as well as Iranian nationals, who could act as double agents by focusing on mid- and senior-level members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

“This includes examining bank accounts, both in Iran and abroad, examining travel history and families,” an Iranian security official said, declining to give details of how its nearly 200,000 members communicate.

“We are currently using end-to-end encryption on messaging systems,” he said.

Iran’s Foreign, Defense and Interior Ministries have not yet responded to the global news agency’s request for comment.

The first of the coordinated bombing attacks took place in Lebanon. Tuesday afternoon Twelve people were killed and more than 2,750 people, mostly Lebanese civilians, were injured when pagers carried by Hezbollah members exploded. A second wave of attacks followed the following day. radios explodeThe attack in which 30 more people died and 750 were injured.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the attacks and said there would be a “heavy reckoning”.

Iranian officials, who have long supported the terrorist organization, also placed the blame on Israel.

“I strongly condemned Israeli terrorism in my meeting with my Lebanese counterpart. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi allegedly said in a post: On the X.

Israeli forces have been launching intense air strikes on Lebanon since Thursday. The latest attack took place on Monday Fifty people were killed and more than 300 injured in the attack, which targeted residential buildings in the south of the country where Hezbollah weapons were thought to be stored.