"These people want to push us towards a war, and it's so disgusting. We don't need any more wars". These are Trump's private considerations, exchanged on Friday with a confidant and published yesterday by the "Wall Street Journal.
Yesterday the American president confirmed that he will announce new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, while the Pentagon has launched cyber attacks against the Revolutionary Guard, targeting in particular the computers that control its missile systems.
Tehran, today, has not confirmed the damage to its systems deriving from alleged "cyber attacks”Launched by Washington. "The media question the veracity of the alleged cyber attacks against Iran". "I have to say that we have been dealing with cyber-terrorism and US unilateralism for a long time”, The minister of telecommunications of the Islamic Republic, Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, wrote on Twitter. "None of their attacks succeeded despite great efforts in this direction“, Explained the exponent of the Iranian government, adding that in the last year“ 33 million ”of attacks have been neutralized thanks to a new cyber-defense system.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that US Cyber Command personnel launched a cyber attack last Thursday night paralyzing Iran's military command and in particular the missile launch and control system. The attack was planned in response to damage to two Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, whose responsibility according to the United States would fall on Iran. Washington authorities refused to comment on the information released by the Washington Post. According to Thomas Bossert, former White House cyber security adviser in President Donald Trump's administration, the operation "serves to defend the US Navy and commercial operations in the Strait of Hormuz." According to the article, Iranian cyber forces have repeatedly tried to hack into the systems of US military ships in the Persian Gulf over the past two years. "There is no doubt that there has been an increase in Iranian cyber activity," said Christopher Krebs, director of the National Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.