Friday, August 24, 2012
"Operation Olympic Games" The Internet War Against Iran's Atomic Program-1
When the dialogue between Iran and Western countries about Iran's nuclear program failed, then Iran decided to resume the uranium enrichment project at Natanz center. This information alerted the USA and Israel. Israel wanted to attack Iran but the USA stopped it. Then USA military presented a plan to make the working centrifuge machines non-functional at Natanz center through incorporating the virus in the computers. President Bush had doubts about the operation but he approved the project. Thus Operation Olympic Games" started against Iran's nuclear program.
Earlier, CIA had provided faulty equipment to be used by Iran for atomic program through its agents, but this plan failed. The American Cyber department established in 2005 was assigned the operation Olympic games. But, it was known soon that the job was too critical, complicated and difficult. Therefore, experts of National Security Agency (NSA) were also included in the plan.Then it was decided to seek the help of Israelis, as they had established cyber sections since 2005 in the army. Israeli units are extremely secret and help the army in various projects.
Israeli computer experts were as trained ans experienced as those of NSA. Moreover, they had more information about Iran's Natanz center. Secondly, Israel postponed attacking Iran. Now, Israelis wanted to check that how far effective the cyber attack could be.
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