- 鈥淭hey try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack,鈥� the Iranian minister for information and communications technology
- The statement comes after reports of planned cyberattacks by the Pentagon
LONDON: US cyberattacks against Iranian targets have not been successful, Iran鈥檚 telecoms minister said on Monday, within days of reports that the Pentagon launched a long-planned cyberattack to disable the country鈥檚 rocket launch systems.
鈥淭hey try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack,鈥� Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, Iran鈥檚 minister for information and communications technology, said on social network Twitter.
鈥淢edia asked if the claimed cyberattacks against Iran are true,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e have been facing cyber-terrorism for a long time...Last year we neutralized 33 million attacks with the (national) firewall.鈥�