Lately, the United States launched cyber attacks against
Iranian missile control systems and a spy network after Tehran downed an
American surveillance drone. It is believed US president Donald Trump authorized
the US Cyber Command to carry out a retaliatory attack on Iran, shortly after
the US president pledged to hit the Islamic republic with major new sanctions. The
US claimed crippling of computers used to control rocket and missile launches. However,
it was not clear whether the attacks were effective or not. It was suggested
the US media reports were a bluff meant to affect public opinion and regain the
lost reputation for the White House following the downing of its drone. The US
had undertaken similar attacks in the past.
It was first in July 2010 when the United States launched a
serious cyber-attack against Iran. At the time, it was said that a virus named
Stuxnet was used for damaging the computer systems that controlled Iranian
nuclear industry.
On 16th January 2011, New York Times and many
other media published news about how Stuxnet malicious computer worm was
jointly built by US, the Zionist regime, United Kingdom and Germany. It
revealed that President George W. Bush had initially granted permission for
production of Stuxnet and then they started building the virus in cooperation
with the Zionist regime.
According to the official documents, Stuxnet was built
jointly by US, Germany, UK and the Zionist regime, but Germany and UK may not
have been aware what function the virus will have in future. George W. Bush
issued the permission for building Stuxnet and Barack Obama gave permission for
using it in 2009.
According to western and Zionist news agencies, in 2009,
Stuxnet mostly infiltrated the computers via software such as USB flash drives
and internet and then the virus was transferred to every other computer that
became connected to an infected computer.
At the time, the emergence of this computer worm was all
over the news. On 2nd October 2010, India Times and Daily Telegraph
published some news and revealed that the Zionist regime was involved in
building this virus.
What is interesting in both their reports, is that they mentioned that Stuxnet
used a file named “Myrtus” to infiltrate the computers.
Myrtus is a word with Hebrew roots that refer to the story
of Esther, the second wife of Persian
king Ahasuerus (commonly identified as Xerxes) in ancient Persia. She was a
Jewish woman who was under the guardianship of her cousin, Mordecai who was an
advisor to king Ahasuerus and convicned the king to marry her. According
to these reports, Esther was somehow considered as the queen of world Jews and
the Zionist regime was inspired by this historical character to name the
malware to infiltrate Iran’s systems.
After George W. Bush and Barak Obama, the plans for launching
cyber-attacks against Iran were still at work in White House. Recently, western
media, specially the American ones, announced that Donald Trump has issued the
permit for attacking Iranian computer systems.
It is claimed that the permission for beginning
cyber-attacks was given on Thursday right after Trump, allegedly, called off
his attack against Iran in retaliation for downing US invading drone just 10
minutes before it was to be launched. Two informed sources have told
Associated Press that the cyber-attacks are been approved by Trump.
It appears that President Trump has chosen a strategy
against Iran that was also tried by Bush and Obama. According to the
reports published in New York Times, contrary to the intentions of US and the
Zionist regime, Stuxnet was never able to carry out its mission completely, that
was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program, it only slowed down the process
of Iran’s nuclear developments.
It seems that Trump is running a test on Iran; and, now,
instead of direct military war, he has chosen to launch cyber-attacks and
offered negotiations without any precondition. Currently, Trump has three
big projects at hand: the Deal of the Century, Iran and North Korea.
In dealing with North Korea, Trump also first started with
direct threats, to the point that many predicted an imminent war would start,
but he suddenly offered to negotiate with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un;
though these negations have not yet come to any conclusion.
White House has also devised the Deal of the Century project
for the Middle East, but the Palestinians have not agreed to abide by it.
Finally, Trump has also been unsuccessful in dealing with Iran.
By abandoning the nuclear deal with Iran and imposing
sanctions on Iran, Trump burned all the bridges between the two countries and
now he is wondering if he can push Tehran into submission by trying out other
strategies such as cyber-attacks and economic pressure.
