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FNA Managing Director Warns about Cyber War against Iran
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:09:38 -0500 (CDT)
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8805211171 13 Aug 2009 TEHRAN (FNA)- FNA managing Director Hamid Reza Moqaddamfar urged Iranian officials and people to keep vigilant against enemies' hostile moves against Iran through cyber and satellite technologies, viewing them as parts of the West's soft threats against the Islamic Republic. "These kinds of wars are more sensitive and more difficult than the hardware wars," Moqaddamfar stressed in an interview with the Iranian state-run TV on Tuesday. "In the hard(ware) war, there is a specific enemy who is visible but one of the characteristics of this (soft) war is that the enemy is not seen, that is to say that this war is fought in a fully invisible environment and on completely unequal footings," he added. He called on all bloggers to take the opportunity created in the cyber atmosphere, and urged the government to establish a think-tank to study the issue. Moqaddamfar also stressed the necessity for confrontation against the hostile moves made by certain internet sites, including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Tehran last week started trial of a large number of detainees with major roles in the country's post-election frenzy in which they confessed to their relations with certain foreign countries who contributed a role in fomenting unrests. Iran has repeatedly accused the West of stoking post-election unrests, singling out Britain and the US for meddling and expelled two British diplomats and arrested a number of local staffs of British embassy in Tehran after documents and evidence substantiated London's interfering role in stirring post-election riots in Iran. The Tehran government blamed media sources in the West for the unprecedented unrest, saying that the politically-motivated media coverage of the presidential polls was pushing the country toward a precipice. ________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org
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