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TV: Israel believes Iran struck ship in response to cyberattack on train syste; Israel shares evidence, contemplates response
Follow up to this story from yesterday. [IsraelTimes] July hacking of national rail in Islamic Theocratic Republicalso saw hackers publish phone number of supreme leader’s office. Israel believes Iran  ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate carried out the deadly attack on the oil tanker MT Mercer Street in response to a recent cyber attack supposedly carried out by Israel, according to a report Saturday. The cyberattack in early July caused chaos in the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s train system as hackers posted fake messages about alleged train delays or cancellations on display boards at stations across the country. They also urged passengers to call for information, while listing the phone number of the office of the country’s Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... A Channel 13 news report, which did not cite its sources, claimed Israel assesses Iran was directly responding to those actions. The report further said Iran was also hoping to raise insurance costs for ships with ties to Israel. On Friday, state-owned Iranian news network al-Alam, citing "well-informed sources," said the attack was in response to a reported Israeli strike in Syria that it said killed "two resistance men" last week. Iran has not officially taken responsibility for the attack. Two ship crewmen, a British and Romanian national, died in Thursday night’s attack off the coast of Oman on the oil tanker Mercer Street, a ship operated by Zodiac Maritime, a London-based company belonging to Israeli tycoon Eyal Ofer. Israeli and American officials have said it was apparently carried out by suicide drones that hit the ship. Analysts said the attack bore all the hallmarks of tit-for-tat exchanges in the shadow war between Israel and Iran, in which vessels linked to each nation have been targeted in waters around the Gulf. Israel weighs retaliation for Iran strike on ship – report [israelTimes] Israel is considering various options to retaliate against Iran  over its strike on an oil tanker — operated by an Israeli-owned company — that killed two, according to Israeli television.According to Channel 12, Israel has handed over intelligence materials proving that Iran was behind the strike to the United States and Britannia. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi met over the weekend and discussed various plans to retaliate, according to the unsourced television report, which also says that Washington and London are also weighing a response. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-08-01 |
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