🔶 Cyber attacks and threats to senior officials, the new strategy of the Republic of Salami?
Report by Nilofer Gholami.
The conflict between the Republic of Salami and the Western countries in recent years went beyond the military and political sphere and also included civil and economic infrastructures.
In the latest example, on Tuesday, November 10, there were reports of threats attributed to Iran against Scott Bessant, the US Treasury Secretary, and his transfer to a military base.
According to the assessment of American security institutions, the threats have reached the "transition to advanced" stage.
Shortly before that, on Monday, November 9, France held Iran responsible for the ground cyber attack on the cooling systems of more than 700 chain stores and summoned the Iranian ambassador in Paris.
In this regard, the Paris prosecutor's office announced the issuance of an international arrest warrant for the head and two deputies of the "Kill the Line" group, who are suspected of being responsible for this ground attack. On the evening of Sunday, November 1, the refrigeration systems of three regional centers of the French Blood Transfusion Organization were targeted by a ground attack, but a link between this incident and Iran has not yet been confirmed.
American water and sewer facilities have also been the target of cyber attacks in recent months; However, not all of these attacks can be attributed to Tehran.
Also, in the UK, the ground attack program on the Farford Air Base drew the attention of the authorities to the activities of networks attributed to Iran.
In America, hackers affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards infiltrated the control systems of a children's hospital in 2021. In captivity, the security authorities attributed the ground cyber attack on the "Shamir" medical center in 2025 to Iran.
Examining this series of events leads to the question of whether Tehran may have extended its asymmetric pressure to other countries and formulate a new strategy to deal with the current situation. Leila Maruti, a political analyst, in an interview with DW Farsi, considers the current policy of the Islamic Republic as an "aggressive policy" that gained attention after the words attributed to Mujtaba Khamenei.
Referring to the ground-based cyber attack on store refrigerators in France, Mehdi Sermifer, a journalist in the field of science and technology, calls this an example of "the transition of the cyber operation from information theft and internet disruption to the actual destruction of civilian infrastructure" in which the attacker intends to cause physical and economic damage through manipulation of a digital system.
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