Pegasus tapping phones of Cabinet Ministers, RSS leaders, Journalists: Reports
Subramanian Swamy threatens to move SC
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New Delhi: BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy on Sunday took to Twitter to claim that at least two international publications were likely to publish reports on the alleged hiring of an Israeli firm for snooping Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet colleagues, RSS leaders and journalists.
“Strong rumour that this evening IST, Washington Post & London Guardian are publishing a report exposing the hiring of an Israeli firm Pegasus, for tapping phones of Modi’s Cabinet Ministers, RSS leaders, SC judges, & journalists. If I get this confirmed I will publish the list,” Swamy tweeted.
Strong rumour that this evening IST, Washington Post & London Guardian are publishing a report exposing the hiring of an Israeli firm Pegasus, for tapping phones of Modi’s Cabinet Ministers, RSS leaders, SC judges, & journalists. If I get this confirmed I will publish the list.
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) July 18, 2021
When a Twitter asked if he too may have been a target of the alleged snooping, the outspoken BJP leader said, “I refer to rumours only when it emerges from truth. But truth today has to be documented. Hence in 2G, Aircel Maxis, NH etc ., I had enough documents to go to Court. If no documents then it will remain a rumour about the truth till I get it.”
Swamy said that he would move the Supreme Court if he found that he too was a victim of snooping.
Responding to Swamy’s tweet, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien wrote, “…and many members of the Opposition.”
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram tweeted, “A little birdie tells me that Pegasus is going to be explosive.”
Several journalists have taken to Twitter to claim that an expose on the hacking of phones was likely to be published on Sunday with many terming it to be capable of causing a political earthquake in the country.
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Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
Dubai (AP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63.
The crash comes as the Middle East remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which Raisi under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel just last month.
State TV gave no immediate cause for the crash in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. Among the dead was Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, 60.
With Raisi were Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Early Monday morning, Turkish authorities released what they described as drone footage showing what appeared to be a fire in the wilderness that they “suspected to be wreckage of helicopter.”
The coordinates listed in the footage put the fire some 20 kilometres south of the Azerbaijan-Iranian border on the side of a steep mountain.
Footage released by the IRNA early Monday showed what the agency described as the crash site, across a steep valley in a green mountain range. Soldiers speaking in the local Azeri language said: “There it is, we found it.”
