A former interior ministry official who criticized Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar after the October 7 attacks on Israel has been sentenced to six months in prison by a Tehran court, online outlet Jahan News reported on Tuesday.
Abdolreza Davari, a former adviser to Iran's minister of interior and a former deputy chief of the government's official news agency, is known for his rightwing, provocative commentary on social media.
In September 2024, he questioned Sinwar's motives to mastermind October 7 in a post on X.
“Yahya Sinwar is fluent in Hebrew and served as the liaison between prisoners and Israeli authorities during his imprisonment in Israel," Davari wrote.
"Sinwar is the commander of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which he launched without informing or coordinating with Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and his costly actions raise a big question mark about him.”
He later deleted the post but other users joined the discussion and suggested the slain Hamas commander was an Israeli agent.
Davari was sentenced to six months in jail, a fine, confiscation of his smart phone and a ban on social media activity, Jahan News reported.
The case is currently under appeal, while Davari is also being prosecuted for other controversial remarks made against Fereydoun Abbasi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), who was killed during an Israeli airstrike on June 13.
On June 14, Davari alleged Abbasi might have staged a terror attack on himself in 2009 to raise his profile and eventually become head of the AEOI.
The case is ongoing, Jahan News reported.
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