Russia believes US, Israel behind Iran worm attack: official
A photo released by the official website of Iran's presidency shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a visit to Natanz uranium enrichment facilities in 2008.
Russia believes Israel and the United States were responsible for unleashing the malicious Stuxnet computer worm on Iran's nuclear programme last year, a top official said Friday.
"We are seeing attempts of cyberspace being used by some states to act against others -- of it being used for political-military purposes," said the foreign ministry's emerging challenges and threats department chief Ilya Rogachyov.
"The only case in which experts believe the actions of states have been proven in this area ... is the Stuxnet system that was launched in 2010 against the centrifuge control system used to enrich uranium in Iran," he said.
"Experts believe that traces of this lead back to the actions of Israel and the United States," Rogachyov told reporters. "This is the only proven case of actual cyber-warfare."
Most of the Stuxnet infections have been discovered in Iran, giving rise to speculation it was intended to sabotage nuclear facilities there. The worm was crafted to recognize the system it was to attack.
Tehran has also blamed Israel and the United States for the killing of two of its nuclear scientists in November and January.
Russia picked up the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant from Germany in the 1990s and the unit was hooked up to the power grid system for the first time this month.
Worried by the rapid rise of advanced technology, Moscow has spent several years pushing the United Nations into adopting new guiding principles for the Internet age that prohibit countries from engaging in so-called cyber-warfare.
"We are categorically against this opportunity being secured in some sort of international agreements," said the foreign ministry official.
"We believe that the international community must agree on certain principles of establishing national jurisdiction over cyberspace."
The United States has in turn only supported initiatives that help protect the physical safety of communications cable used by the Internet, Rogachyov said.
(c) 2011 AFP
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In other news, the US and Israel think Ahmadinejad is a douche bag.
Sep 24, 2011
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God's chosen people don't kill innocents.
Sep 24, 2011
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This passage doesn't convey a clear meaning.
Either someone is not able to represent the information in an understandable way
or someone is deliberately trying to confuse readers.
Media are active participants in distributing information.
Sep 24, 2011
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I believe your ancient scribes made a serious error. It should have read:"God's Chosen Sacrificial Lambs." We all know God loves sacrificial lambs that were offered to him regularly.
Sep 24, 2011
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Apparently their G_D does not believe in "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
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A country built on a fantasy land and who has publicly threatened attacks who has a problem with all things NOT islam, REALLY should not possess nuclear power BY THEMSELVES. They have the right to the technological power, however it should be supervised by nations that know how to use it, and more importantly, can tell if things are being redirected for arms that go against pacts of the UN.
Sep 24, 2011
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How is Israel, USA or Russia any different? They aren't. Most of the violence from middle east towards Americans is generated by Americans themselves. Wouldn't you be mad when a terrorist group got Billions of dollars in your country?
Wow, just wow. How competent are we with nuclear radiation? We aren't.
http://www.lutins...kes.html
http://en.wikiped...ccidents
http://en.wikiped...ccidents
And these lists are small, trust me there is a lot more nuclear "accidents", but i cant find the list right now.
Sep 24, 2011
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Yes there will ALWAYS be accidents with nuclear power, no matter what the country, but Iran does NOT have the technical expertise to handle this, which is made EXTREMELY OBVIOUS by the fact they dont even have the knowledge to build their own reactor. If they want to join the nuclear countries, I'm all for it, but all of the MAJOR nuclear countries have pacts against weapons now. The ones who don't will be wiped off the face of the planet the second they try to utilize such a weapon, and NOT necessarily by the country they attacked
Sep 24, 2011
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So Americans coordinating the rebels in Libya is not a dirty tactic of a coward? Running over innocents with convoys is not tactics of a coward? Using radioactive ammo. Bombing innocents. Etc? Let me guess you are a delusional American and your country is the best in the world.
Please do not speak for other people, you have no idea what these people had to go through with, and neither do i, fortunately.
So what makes you thik iranians will be less competent than others?
That is why they have russian contractors.
Sep 24, 2011
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Re: nuclear power - seems to me that we've had some rather dramatic examples of how it can backfire...guess the planet just isn't that important, despite the fact that we need to live on it. It would not be beyond the US/Israel to sabotage Iran's and contaminate more of Earth with radioactive material.
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