Countering Iran’s Threat, Strategies for Regional Stability

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  Written by Mahmoud Hakamian Two-minute read On Sunday morning, April 14, the Iranian regime launched an unprecedented attack against Israel, escalating tensions in the Middle East. Despite military experts’ assessments that the attack failed, it underscores  Iran’s role as a focal point  of regional conflict. The October 7th attack sent shockwaves globally. Despite ample evidence implicating the Iranian regime, Western governments dismissed Tehran’s involvement, adhering to a flawed appeasement policy toward the primary state sponsor of terrorism. They disregarded explicit statements from Revolutionary Guards  (IRGC) commanders boasting  about their direct role in the attack. For decades, the Iranian Resistance has urged the international community to adopt a resolute stance against the Iranian regime’s aggression and terrorism. Despite persistent calls, the failed appeasement policy of the West allowed Tehran to escalate its belligerent activities, including financing, arming, train
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IRAN’S CYBER ATTACKS SHOULD BE GIVEN PROPER CONCERN

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Iran's cyber-media activities are news that is heard everywhere these days
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By INU Staff
INU- Iran is steadily growing its cyber capabilities, having inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of damage on 200 companies around the world in just the past two years, and we downplay this at our peril.
Following a breach of the Australian parliament, experts pointed the finger at Iran, but other sources claimed that Iran lacked the skills necessary to conduct such a sophisticated operation. This is not true. British intelligence pointed to Iran after a similar attack on the British parliament in 2017, where hackers compromised dozens of lawmakers’ email accounts.
The US Intelligence Community concluded in its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment that Iranian hackers are only capable of “causing localized, temporary disruptive effects”, but cautioned about Iran’s “increasingly sophisticated cyber techniques” and that the Regime wants to attack the critical infrastructure of the US and its allies.
Indeed, in January, cyber security firm FireEye warned that Iranian operations pose a threat to “a wide variety of sectors and individuals on a global scale”, while the European Union concluded that Iran will likely “intensify state-sponsored cyber threat activities”.
In February, the US Justice Department actually unsealed an indictment against a US citizen and four Iranian operatives for targeting US intelligence agents with fake Facebook profiles. The targets were tricked into accepting friend requests and, in at least one case, adding the fake persona to a private Facebook group of government agents. This likely provided the hackers with more information and targets.
However, the targets were not convinced to click on malicious links and download malware from phishing emails, which is positive because the Justice Department said the operation would “have brought serious damage to the United States”.
Iranian hackers also targeted Israel’s home front missile alert system, according to the Israeli military’s outgoing cyber chief Brigadier-General Noam Sha’ar. This could have triggered false alerts, sending the country into a panic, or worse, prevented the sirens from activating when a missile was detected, so civilians wouldn’t know to take cover. Thankfully, the hackers were detected while the Israeli military’s cyber unit was tracking Iranian cyber groups and the threat was neutralised.
While we should not inflate Iran’s capabilities, we should certainly be aware of them.
Annie Fixler, the deputy director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote: “The United States can ill afford to dismiss Tehran’s capabilities as those of a third-tier cyber actor. An accurate assessment of the threat is the first step to defeating, thwarting, and deterring the Islamic Republic’s cyber army.”

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