US hacking accusations against Iran ‘ridiculous’: Expert
The recent US accusations against Iran over a campaign of cyber attacks on American banks are “ridiculous” and “funny” when Washington has been guilty of the same crime for years, an American writer and political analyst says.
The Stuxnet computer worm developed during the Obama administration to sabotage Iran’s civilian nuclear program was “really dangerous and high level,” said Daniel Patrick Welch, a political commentator in Boston, Massachusetts.
“This is the highest level of cyber terrorism; the US has done this all over the world for years and these are only the things that we know about,” Welch told Press TV on Thursday.
“This justice in the United States is a complete fraud, like democracy in the United States is a complete fraud,” he added.
The US government has charged several Iranian hackers with coordinating a campaign of cyber attacks on dozens of American banks and a dam in New York state from 2011 to 2013.
The US Justice Department on Thursday announced the indictment of seven Iranian hackers, which was filed in a federal court in New York City.
The indictment described the suspects as "experienced computer hackers" who live in Iran and may have been working on behalf of the Iranian government.
At a news conference announcing the charges, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the head of the Justice Department, said the accused hackers caused tens of millions of dollars in damages in their assault on US banks.
The US hacking charges come on the heels of a recent report that the US had developed an “elaborate plan” for an extensive cyber attack against Iran in case the negotiations to reach a nuclear agreement failed.
Code-named Nitro Zeus, the cyber attack plan was designed as an “alternative” to target Iran's air defenses, communications systems and crucial segments of its electrical power grid, the New York Times reported in February.
In June 2010, it was revealed that the US and Israel carried out a cyber attack against Iran to sabotage the country’s civilian nuclear program.
In that attack, Iran’s nuclear facility in Natanz was the target of the Stuxnet virus in what has become the most serious case of state cyber-terrorism because of its complexity and sabotage of sensitive properties.
Biden set to lose re-election over his genocidal policy in Gaza: US journalist
Frightful Biden-Trump rematch planned for November: Analyst
US Empire controlling people's minds to maintain hegemony: Scholar
VIDEO | Beirut’s southern suburbs targeted in 'heavy' Israeli strikes
Haaretz: Over 10,000 Israelis have migrated to Canada this year
VIDEO | Press TV's news headlines
Official: Iran to respond ‘decisively’ to any threat to its nuclear program
Nearly 70 Mossad-linked terrorists killed or captured in southeast Iran
What collapse of German coalition government means
Iran, Syria emphasize need to stop Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Lebanon
Clinton whisked away amid pro-Palestine protest at Belfast university
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
