Stuxnet Computer Worm: Iran Blames U.S., Israel

TEHRAN, Iran -- A senior Iranian military official says experts have determined the United States and Israel were behind a mysterious computer worm known as Stuxnet that has harmed Iran's nuclear program.

Gholam Reza Jalali says investigations by Iranian experts show that Stuxnet originated from the U.S. state of Texas and Israel.

Jalali heads a military unit called Passive Defense that primarily deals with sabotage. His comments were reported Saturday by Iran's official IRNA news agency.

Iran has acknowledged Stuxnet hit a limited number of centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment facility, the centerpiece of its nuclear program.

The U.S. and its allies accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.

Comments

[YafoDalet]

08:27 PM on 04/19/2011

So surprising!

[avril666]

01:04 AM on 04/19/2011

Regarding the Galilee, Mr. [Moshe] Sharett already told you that about 100,000 Arabs still now live in the pocket of Galilee. Let us assume that a war breaks out. Then we will be able to cleanse the entire area of Central Galilee, including all its refugees, in one stroke.

David Ben Gurion

If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.

Ben-Gurion

Wishing upon the death star of Rotschild

[Avirahim]

06:44 PM on 04/18/2011

We are told that Iran is a nuclear threat, but it has no weapons, who is the real nuclear threat in the Middle East?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYeJ7uIPEbE

[Phantom123]

09:17 PM on 04/18/2011

Iran has no weapons ?

[Magic 62]

10:07 PM on 04/18/2011

No nuclear weapons.

[GraphicMatt]

03:09 PM on 04/18/2011

In other news, Ahmadinnerjacket alleges that the Nigerian prince he e-mailed his bank account information to was really a Mossad agent.

[rudiy]

12:04 PM on 04/18/2011

Several months ago Iran was saying their reactors were virtually unaffected by stuxnet.

[Magic 62]

10:11 PM on 04/18/2011

Reactors were never the target or were damaged. Centrifuges were targeted and about a 1000 IR-1 centrifuges were destroyed during the attack. They were replaced quickly since they were scheduled for upgrades and new more modern centrifuges were already available. According to IAEA, there was no slow down in their program.

[Tony Andrews]

10:13 PM on 04/18/2011

You do know that there are occasions when states (including the United States) present a calm, swan gliding gently across the lake, prescence to the world, while frantically paddling away beneath the surface to keep afloat?

[crankyCrackPot]

11:07 AM on 04/18/2011

Siemens, meaning Germany had to have helped too. They are the most likely participant but not as interesting or provocative of a news story.

[fauker1923]

10:10 AM on 04/18/2011

that will teach you go go running around town playing "just the tip"

[JBDenver]

10:56 AM on 04/18/2011

What was most concerning for Ahmadinijad was that he was sitting at the final table of a freeroll tournament on Pokerstars.net

[czs5056]

02:15 PM on 04/18/2011

See how I just let that go by. look at me I am the perfect gentleman

[BeLogical1234]

09:38 AM on 04/18/2011

In other news, weathermen in Tehran have blamed today's rain on Israel and United States.

[Avirahim]

02:42 PM on 04/18/2011

I guess you missed all the recent news, everything is Iran's fault.

Palestinians oppressed? Iran's fault.
IDF massacres Lebanese civilans? Iran's fault.
Bahrain's majority oppressed by Saudi Arabia? Iran's fault.
Yemen? Iran's fault.
Venezual? Iran's fault.
Shia persecution for 1400 years? Iran's fault.

[BeLogical1234]

05:08 PM on 04/18/2011

Not really, but you get an A for effort on that one. Let's not try to pretend that type of blame is even close to as ubiquitous as Arab nations blaming Israel in the United States. That being said, the fact that Iran supplies Hamas and Hezbollah with missiles that are subsequently fired at Israel does implicate them a bit, doesn't it? Then again, Israel does send vulture-spies (or was it Dolphins?) into Arab nations to acquire intelligence, so I guess it's only fair.

[Magic 62]

10:13 PM on 04/18/2011

hahaha ... it couldn't have been work of Israel or US since they would never do anything like this. you must think, everyone is stupid.

[khg1]

08:41 AM on 04/18/2011

Ridiculous. They probably don't know what virus & mal-ware scanning is. Sad thing is that the hackers went to all that trouble and didn't get anything worthwhile out of it.

[crankyCrackPot]

11:09 AM on 04/18/2011

Actually... the "virus" was among the most sophisticated ever seen. It spins the centrifuges fast enough to break them while purposefully and incorrectly telling the engineers that everything is fine.
At the very least, a few centrifuges were damaged and they have been unable to clean their systems.

[khg1]

07:41 AM on 04/19/2011

Anything that stops Imadinnerjacket from getting the refined uranium (ect) for a nuclear missile can't be a bad thing. maybe a reactor accident might (big might) get eh Iranians to wake up about this.

[avril666]

07:41 AM on 04/18/2011

Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona was built with French help in the 1950s and was said to be used for weapons production. When a former worker there, Mordechai Vanunu, leaked the story to the Sunday Times of London in 1986, he was hunted down and arrested, spending 18 years in jail. Israel has another, smaller, research reactor at Nahal Soreq, near Tel Aviv.

[Anybodyseenthepopos]

06:49 PM on 04/18/2011

We call it treason. For a reason. State secrets are secret for a reason.

[Tony Andrews]

10:26 PM on 04/18/2011

The "secret" is well known, yet Israel has not been, is not being, and will not be called to sign up to the NNPT, nor will it be subjected to UN resolutions or be sanctioned (as has been Iran, which is in compliance) for its total failure to meet its international obligations in that respect.

[Magic 62]

10:53 PM on 04/18/2011

dimona reactor was a stock EL-101 reactor that was delivered to Israel from France as payment for their involvement in the Suez crisis.

[Anybodyseenthepopos]

03:39 PM on 04/19/2011

Vive Le` France.

[avril666]

07:34 AM on 04/18/2011

All it takes is one to get through while hezbollah and hamas are pelting israel with thousands of rockets...one missile to take out a vital dam or power supply would cripple the israeli infrastructure...

But soon after Omid's launch, amateur satellite trackers reported that the final stage, which also reached orbit, appears much too bright to be a tiny third stage, hinting that it might be a two-stage vehicle using more advanced technology instead.

New calculations have reinforced this view, showing that a two-stage rocket the size of Safir-2 could get Omid to orbit if it had ditched the scud design in favour of engines that use more efficient hydrazine fuel....

[MMRDO]

07:26 AM on 04/18/2011

Oh who are we kidding, yeah it was us :)

[MikeyJaii]

03:22 AM on 04/18/2011

We won't deny it that it was us. We are trying to stop you in any way to crush any nuclear program.

[avril666]

07:35 AM on 04/18/2011

They probably already have it.

Iran has a population of millions of young intelligent people with nothing but time on their hands.

[TheLonelyGod]

10:07 AM on 04/18/2011

As they demonstrated so aptly when they used children as minesweepers in the Iran-Iraq War. Huzzah.

[DanDreifus]

02:29 AM on 04/18/2011

Israel managed to deny Iraq from developing nuclear technology by bomobing their Osirak facility in 1981 and saving countless of NATO and Iraqi lives in desert storm. Israel destroyed a secretive Syrian nuclear facility 3 years ago. Israel has managed to delay operations on the Iraqi nuclear program for over a decade through a combination of secret and classified operations both military, diplomatic and super sophisticated classified operations.Their arab/muslim rivals are generations behind them on the technological and military levels. they dont stand a chance

[avril666]

07:36 AM on 04/18/2011

If only we could have saved our veterans from our own depleted uranium

[CigarGod]

12:58 PM on 04/18/2011

Yet the IDF is also terrified that the Palestinian's will get their hands on lentils.
Sounds like a wide spectrum of fear going on.....