Twelve conservative members of the Iranian parliament have signed a statement warning Iran’s culture and intelligence ministers that hundreds of spies have infiltrated Iranian media organizations. The statement comes just after comments by the supreme leader asking the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to protect the country from the “enemy’s influence.”

The Sept. 21 warning was addressed to Intelligence Minister Hojat al-Islam Seyed Mahmoud Alavi and Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati. It read that there is “a destructive media bond and movement of hundreds of people in the country connected to Western intelligence services that are linked to countries such as Norway, the Netherlands and England. The head of the link outside of the country are the leaders of the 2009 sedition and the fugitives and refugees who went to Western countries.”

The “2009 sedition” is the term hard-line politicians use to describe the post-2009 presidential election protests in which dozens were killed, hundreds were arrested and many more fled one of the largest crackdowns of the last 36 years. While protesters claim that the elections were fraudulent, authorities accused them of being in the service of foreign governments wishing to spread discord and chaos inside the country. The crackdown led to a wave of political refugees to European countries.

The parliament members accused British and Western intelligence agencies of feeding subjects and content to “infiltrators” who work at “chain newspapers,” a reference to Reformist media outlets. The statement demanded that the Intelligence Ministry “immediately confront and create a case against this movement, which is an enemy of the revolution, and submit the case to the judiciary.”