The Ahlul Bayt newswire quotes the head of the Operations Department of the Iranian Armed Forces - Brigadier-General Ali Shadmani - as saying that Iran will reciprocate cyber-attacks by the US or its allies.
Shadmani, says the newswire, noted that any cyber attack against Tehran would be risky for the US and its allies.
“[Shadmani] said that enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran tried all their means in different economic, cultural, social, military and security fields in the past three decades to deal a blow to the Islamic Revolution, but to no avail”, he told the newswire, adding that all anti-revolutionary terrorist organizations that are active against the Islamic Republic are formed and financed by US, UK and Tel Aviv regimes.
Reporting on the escalating war of words, the V3 newswire says that Western allies have been trying to destabilise Iran for decades, backing "anti-revolutionary terrorist organisations" such as MKO.
“A strange one this. Of course there are acts of cyber espionage and nation state-related attacks occurring all the time, so Shadmani perhaps took this opportunity to remind the West that he knows what the US and its allies are up to”, says the newswire.
Or perhaps, the newswire adds, it was another reference to the infamous Stuxnet worm which is widely believed to have been engineered with the help of states such as Israel with the express aim of disrupting Iran's nuclear programme.
“Iran itself, of course, has been implicated in several cyber attacks, most recently in the Comodo and DigiNotar breaches which yielded a treasure trove of fake SSL certificates which could have been used to build phishing sites”, the newswire goes on to say.