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May 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Iran has not disclosed any damage done by the new spyware virus, dubbed “Flame”. Its origin has not been identified, but Israel’s vice premier fuelled speculation that his country, known for its technological innovation and tireless campaign against Iran’s suspect nuclear programme, unleashed it.
Kaspersky said in a release posted on its website that “the complexity and functionality of the newly discovered malicious programme exceed those of all other cyber menaces known to date”.
The origin of the Stuxnet worm has never been made clear but suspicion has fallen on the United States and Israel which both accuse Iran of seeking to build an atomic weapon.
It said preliminary findings suggest the virus has been active since March 2010, but eluded detection because it of its “extreme complexity” and the fact that only selected computers are being targeted. Flame’s primary purpose, it said, “appears to be cyber espionage, by stealing information from infected machines” and sending it to servers across the world.
“Whoever sees the Iranian threat as a significant threat is likely to take various steps, including these, to hobble it,” Vice Premier Moshe Yaalon told Army Radio. “Israel is blessed with high technology, and we boast tools that open all sorts of opportunities for us.”
Israel rejects Tehran’s claims that its nuclear programme is designed to produce energy, not bombs. It considers Iran to be the greatest threat to its survival and repeatedly, if obliquely, threatened to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if Tehran doesn’t abandon its uranium enrichment project, a key element of bombmaking.
“Illegitimate regimes are producing viruses” and “trying to use the cyber space and this will not be really effective,” Ramin Mehmanparast, the ministry’s spokesman, told reporters in Tehran. He was commenting in response to a question about whether Flame had infected any Iranian computer systems. The Islamic republic has never recognised Israel as a legitimate state.
Iran, whose nuclear facilities and oil ministry have previously been the target of virus attacks, accuses the US and Israel of trying to sabotage its technological progress and denies the allegation that its programme is nuclear related.
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