US cyberattacks on Iranian targets not successful: Iran minister

Iranian demonstrators burned a US flag in Tehran. (File/AFP)

• “They try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack,” 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’s telecoms minister said on Monday, within days of reports that the Pentagon launched a long-planned cyberattack to disable the country’s rocket launch systems.
“They try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack,” Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, Iran’s minister for information and communications technology, said on social network Twitter.
“Media asked if the claimed cyberattacks against Iran are true,” he said. “We have been facing cyber-terrorism for a long time...Last year we neutralized 33 million attacks with the (national) firewall.”