Hackers have shut down several hundred Websites of Shiite clerics and seminary schools in Iran, Iranian media reports said.The hackers have blocked access to 300 sites, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.
According to Iranian state TV the hackers are Sunni Muslims based outside of Iran, suggesting a possible sectarian motive, but it did not say how it had obtained this information.
Fars said that the hackers are based in the United Arab Emirates, home to a large Iranian community, some of whom oppose the clerical rule in the Islamic Republic.