Iran jails senior official over comment on Sinwar
Davari is famous for making controversial comments online about Iran's political elite. He used to work as an adviser to the interior minister and as deputy head of the official state news agency.
The case started with a post Davari made on X (now Twitter) in September 2024. It made fun of Sinwar's reasons for attacking Israel and suggested that the two might have been working together. He wrote that Sinwar had learned Hebrew while being locked up in Israel and was acting as a go-between for Palestinian inmates and Israeli officials.
Davari also said that the attack raised "serious question marks," saying that it looked like it was started without consulting with the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah in Lebanon, or Iran. The post was taken down later.
In addition to giving Davari a six-month jail term, the court also fined him money, took away his phone, and told him he couldn't use any social media sites.
Davari is also being investigated in a different case because of things he said about a past head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization. This makes his legal problems even worse.
The decision shows that the Iranian government is becoming more strict about public criticism and opposition, especially when it comes to important people in the region like Sinwar, whose death earlier this year is still being felt all over the Middle East.
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