Iran ‘disconnects oil terminal after hacking attack’

Hamdollah Mohammad Nejad, the head of the oil ministry’s civil defence unit,
said a special committee was trying to work out how to prevent further
attacks.

The officials insisted that essential data was kept on separate servers and
had not been harmed.

The Kharg island terminal, which handles nearly all Iran’s oil exports, was
said to have continued to operate, though Iran has decreasing numbers of
buyers thanks to the worldwide sanctions programme.

On the same day the attack was reported to officials, Maj Gen Benny Gantz, the
Israeli military chief of staff, had a cryptic interview published in the
country’s biggest selling newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, saying he had ordered
an escalation in special covert operations around the world.

Iran and its nuclear programme are undoubtedly the prime concern of Israel’s
foreign policy at present, and its oil industry would be a logical extension
if covert activity were to be targeted elsewhere. Western powers are hoping
that sanctions will disrupt its economy, particularly the oil exports on
which it is dependent, seriously enough to force it to make concessions and
stave off a potentially catastrophic war.

: Leon Panetta, the US defence Secretary has cast doubt on Iranian military
claims that it started building a copy of a US surveillance drone captured
last year.

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace
division, claimed on Sunday that engineers were in the final stages of
decoding data from the Sentinel aircraft, which came down in December near
the Afghan border.

“It’s obviously a classified programme and I don’t want to get into the
particulars of that programme,” Mr Panetta said

“But I think I can tell you based on my experience that I would seriously
question their ability to do what they say they’ve done.”

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