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"On a virtually daily basis, you can pick up newspapers in either of those countries and see constant threats issued to attack Iran. There is widespread belief, among virtually everybody, that those two nations jointly were responsible for a very sophisticated cyber warfare (WP) attack on the nation’s nuclear facilities with the Stuxnet virus. There have been a string of Iranian scientists who have been murdered through means that are clearly terroristic, whether it means bombs exploding on Iranian soil or magnetic bombs strapped to cars, where scientists have been killed, their wives have been severely wounded. And you even have an NBC report from last week that says that a dissident organization that has long been devoted to the overthrow of the Iranian government, the MEK, a group that the United States government has long classified as a terrorist organization, is being armed, funded and trained by Israel. And we’ve known for a long time that numerous prominent American officials and politicians from both parties are on the payroll of the MEK and have been advocating on their behalf."

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"So when you talk about Iran’s terrorist network and engaging in terrorism and aggression, what I think we need to realize, first and foremost, is that they’ve been the target of exactly those sorts of attacks by the U.S. and Israel, at the same time that the U.S. virtually has Iran militarily encircled with military bases in virtually every bordering country. And just like Jeremy (Scahill) described how, when you drone attack and kill citizens in a country like Yemen, you generate severe blowback and anti-American animus, the same thing is obviously going to happen when you target a country like Iran with those sorts of series of attacks. And it’s why diplomacy and negotiation—exactly what the U.S. government refuses to do—is the far better course." - Glen Greenwald, on Democracy Now!, 16th February, 2012

American, European and Israeli officials leaked in late May 2012 information that Iranian media had told their readers months earlier-that the United States government was responsible for the cyberattacks that targetted Iranian oil facilities, and the Stuxnet virus that caused havoc worldwide.

• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran, David E. Sanger, New York Times (WP), June 1, 2012
• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/world/middleeast/iran-confirms-cyber-attack-by-new-virus-called-flame.html?ref=middleeast Iran Confirms Attack by Virus That Collects Information, Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, May 29, 2012
• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/world/middleeast/iranian-oil-sites-go-offline-amid-cyberattack.html?ref=middleeast Facing Cyberattack, Iranian Officials Disconnect Some Oil Terminals From Internet, Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times. April 23, 2012

See also

• Electronic attacks on WikiLeaks (WP)
• Wikipedia:National Security Agency
• Wikipedia:Unit 8200

Further reading

• Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, Crown books, 2012