In recent months, senior western officials have become discernibly more relaxed about the Iranian nuclear programme. It is not that they suddenly welcome the prospect of an Iranian bomb. It is just that, as one official put it recently: “We’re having quite a lot of success, disrupting what they are doing.”
I thought of that comment last week, when reading the reports of a computer virus that has been playing havoc with industrial systems in Iran. The Iranian government complains that it has been hit by “electronic warfare” complains in the form of the Stuxnet virus that has infected more than 30,000 computers in their country.
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