Iran official mocks Israeli air defense after drone incursion
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October 9, 2012, Tuesday
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IRAN derided Israel's air defenses as feeble yesterday, citing a drone incursion into its arch-foe's airspace at the weekend.
It also accused Israel and others of masterminding what it said was a cyber attack on communication networks on Iranian offshore oil and gas platforms in the past few weeks.
Jamaluddin Aberoumand, deputy coordinator for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the drone intrusion showed that Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system "does not work and lacks the necessary capacity," Fars news agency reported.
The Israeli air force shot down a drone on Saturday after it crossed into southern Israel, the military said, but it was unclear where the aircraft had come from. Iron Dome is designed to shoot down short-range guerrilla rockets, not slow-flying planes such as drones.
The Israeli military said the drone was first spotted above the Mediterranean near the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to the west of Israel and shot down by a jet over Israeli territory.
Israeli parliament member Miri Regev described it as "Iranian drone launched by Hezbollah," the Lebanese Shi'ite group that fought a war with Israel in 2006.
Aberoumand attributed claims the drone was made by Iran to a "psychological operation" by Israel, but did not confirm or deny them. "The Zionist regime (Israel) has many enemies," he added.
Israel has threatened to bomb Iran's nuclear sites if diplomatic efforts fail to stop the nuclear work it believes is aimed at getting weapons capability, a charge Tehran denies.
Mohammad Reza Golshani, head of information technology for the Iranian Offshore Oil Co, told Iran's Mehr news agency Iranian experts had been able to repel the cyber attack on the information networks on offshore oil and gas platforms.
"This attack was planned by the regime occupying Jerusalem (Israel) and a few other countries," Golshani said. Telephone communications on the platforms were now normal.
Iran, the world's No. 5 oil exporter, has tightened cyber security since 2010 when its uranium enrichment centrifuges were hit by the Stuxnet computer worm, which it blames on Israel or the US.
It also accused Israel and others of masterminding what it said was a cyber attack on communication networks on Iranian offshore oil and gas platforms in the past few weeks.
Jamaluddin Aberoumand, deputy coordinator for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the drone intrusion showed that Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system "does not work and lacks the necessary capacity," Fars news agency reported.
The Israeli air force shot down a drone on Saturday after it crossed into southern Israel, the military said, but it was unclear where the aircraft had come from. Iron Dome is designed to shoot down short-range guerrilla rockets, not slow-flying planes such as drones.
The Israeli military said the drone was first spotted above the Mediterranean near the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to the west of Israel and shot down by a jet over Israeli territory.
Israeli parliament member Miri Regev described it as "Iranian drone launched by Hezbollah," the Lebanese Shi'ite group that fought a war with Israel in 2006.
Aberoumand attributed claims the drone was made by Iran to a "psychological operation" by Israel, but did not confirm or deny them. "The Zionist regime (Israel) has many enemies," he added.
Israel has threatened to bomb Iran's nuclear sites if diplomatic efforts fail to stop the nuclear work it believes is aimed at getting weapons capability, a charge Tehran denies.
Mohammad Reza Golshani, head of information technology for the Iranian Offshore Oil Co, told Iran's Mehr news agency Iranian experts had been able to repel the cyber attack on the information networks on offshore oil and gas platforms.
"This attack was planned by the regime occupying Jerusalem (Israel) and a few other countries," Golshani said. Telephone communications on the platforms were now normal.
Iran, the world's No. 5 oil exporter, has tightened cyber security since 2010 when its uranium enrichment centrifuges were hit by the Stuxnet computer worm, which it blames on Israel or the US.
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