April 16, 2011, Saturday where a computer worm targeting Iranian nuclear facilities could have caused accidents in Iran. A computer worm, Stuxnet, was first appear in September which sends centrifuges-used in nuclear fuel production which spins out of control.
The code was suspiciously came from the laptop of an employee of the said nuclear plant. Gholam Reza Jalali, head of military unit who is in-charge of combatting sabotage,said Iranian experts have determined that the US and Israel were behind Stuxnet.
Jalali said Iranian experts have traced the Stuxnet virus back to the U.S. state of Texas and Israel, IRNA reported. Western experts say only a number of powerful countries could have developed Stuxnet.
Jalali also blamed the German engineering conglomerate Siemens, whose equipment and software is used at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, where technical issues have halted its planned startup.
"Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemies with the codes of the SCADA software for a cyber attack against us."
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