Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
June 2, 2012
As soon as President Barack Obama took office in 2008, he ordered the continuation of cyber-attacks against Iran . The target was Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.
These cyber-attacks originated during the Bush presidency, under the code name “Olympic Games” (OG).
This information accidently escaped the programming in 2010, which lead to its leak into the public. OG was then released onto the internet after causing havoc at Iran’s Natanz plant.
OG, which was created by the US and Israel, has been renamed Stuxnet.
Once OG “escaped”, Obama realized that it would most certainly be tied back to his administration. He loosely directed his national security team to cover up the US involvement in Stuxnet.
OG was renamed once again by Kaspersky Labs, hired by the UN to investigate the worm. Flame was first thought to be super-secret software written in video game language.
Flame’s capabilities, such as remote control of PC microphones, compromises to data collection, makes it the perfect infiltrator for Iran’s most sensitive digital information.
The Obama administration’s use of Flame caused Iran’s nuclear plant digital infrastructure to crash.
As interviews over recent months reveal, the US and Israel came together to attack Iran; along with the European Union and a wide range of employed experts to guarantee that the worm would perform as planned.
Regardless of the lack of evidence that Iran was building nuclear weapons, the US continued to sabotage Iran’s progress. Experts came forward to assert that Iran’s enrichment levels were far below those necessary for the creation of a nuclear warhead.
Yet, the US government ignored these findings, using their assumption to justify their cyber-attacks and movements toward convincing the international community of Iran’s supposed guilt.
The UN jumped on the band wagon by declaring through UN nuclear inspectors that their satellite imagery indicated that some buildings were allegedly torn down as a assumed “clean up” at an Iranian military site that the UN expected to see.
Israel also insisted that Iran was endeavoring to create nuclear weapons without producing definitive evidence. Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak publically announced that “military action may be needed against Iran.”
Brig. Gen. Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization, head of Iran’s new military cyber unit, stated that Iran is prepared “to fight our enemies” in “cyberspace and Internet warfare.”
As of now, the Obama administration has not formally admitted to using Flame; although they do concur that they have “developed cyberweapons”. Coincidentally, al-Qaeda has acquired cyberweapons that they have used against NATO air attacks in Libya in 2011. Since al-Qaeda is a CIA operation, they must have gotten the worm directly from the US government.
The assumption in the mainstream media is that Flame marks the first time the US government and Israel have used cyberweapons against another country . This misinformation has originated with the Obama administration to convince Americans that this “new use” of cyberweapons is conducted under “careful and limited circumstances” because the technology could be usurped by “terrorist or hackers to justify their own attacks”.
Obama maintains that cyber-attacks were the US and Israel’s last resort against Iran to force them to stop their nuclear program. Obama claims that this mode of attack was preferred to Israel’s desire to simply use conventional military force against Iran.
While the US government is refusing to admit to using Flame, Moshe Yaalon spokesman for the Israeli government and minister of strategic affairs, said: “There are quite a few governments in the West that have rich high-tech [capabilities] that view Iran, and particularly the Iranian nuclear threat, as a meaningful threat – and can possibly be involved with this field. I would imagine that everyone who sees the Iranian nuclear threat as a significant one, and that is not only Israel, it is the entire Western world, headed by the United States of America, would likely take every single measure available, including these, to harm the Iranian nuclear project.”
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