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Android phones in Iran get false quake alerts as Mahsa Amini protests continue

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Iranian authorities are offering conflicting accounts after a false earthquake alert went off on Android smartphones as the country grapples with nationwide protests in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death.

Col. Ramin Pashaei, deputy chief of Iran’s cyber police, told Iranian state television that only Android phones received the false alert. He blamed testing at state-owned service provider Iran Mobile Communications Co. for the alert.

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In this photo illustration, the Android logo seen displayed on a smartphone. False earthquake alerts went off on Wednesday on Android smartphones in Iran.

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This photograph taken near the French National Assembly in Paris on December 6, 2022, shows placards with portraits of the victims of Iran’s repression.

Meanwhile, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency described the incident as a hack and that the message was fake and told the public to not leave their homes.

The two conflicting accounts of the event could not be immediately reconciled.

US SANCTIONS IRAN OFFICIALS, MORALITY POLICE OVER DEATH OF MAHSA AMINI

Two months have passed since mass protests erupted in Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman, died in Tehran in the custody of the morality police.

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The movement continues to gain strength in the Middle East and capture global attention despite continued violence and suppression at the hands of the Iranian regime.

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Iran’s Elnaz Rekabi’s family was mysteriously destroyed after she competed without a headscarf in a rock-climbing international competition.

A viral social media video appeared to show authorities demolishing the family home of Elnaz Rekabi, a climber who competed in an international contest without a headscarf in October.

Rekabi later claimed she had done so unintentionally, but she was widely assumed to have expressed support for the protests.

IRAN PROTESTS: ARMY VOWS TO ‘CONFRONT ENEMY’

Iranian officials have repeatedly shut down mobile internet connection since the beginning of the Amini protests and disrupted access to Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the most popular social media services in the country that the public used to share the human right violations with the outside world.

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Iranian fan attends the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group B match between Wales and IR Iran at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on November 25, 2022, in Doha, Qatar.

Amini’s death has sparked calls to overthrow Iran’s theocracy, one of the greatest challenges faced by Tehran since the chaotic years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Rights group HRANA said that as of last week, 469 protesters had been killed, including 64 minors. It said 61 government security forces had also been killed by the violent regime. As many as 18,210 protesters are believed to have been arrested.

Google, which provides the Android software, did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the incident.

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The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this post.

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