[ISN] Iranian Police Sets Up Cyber Force

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:06:14 -0600 (CST)
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8911031262

Fars News Agency
24 Jan 2011

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Cyber Police started its work today to prevent 
espionage and sabotage activities through the internet, a police 
official announced on Sunday.
	
"The Cyber Police can prevent espionage and sabotage in Information 
Technology (IT) tools," Head of the Information Production and Exchange 
Department of the Law Enforcement Police General Seyed Kamal Hadianfar 
said.

Hadianfar reiterated that IT tools play an undeniable role in political, 
security, economic, trade, ethical and religious rivalries at the 
national and international levels.

He also underlined that given the people's growing interest in using the 
internet, the threats and opportunities presented by the IT now need to 
be attended more than before in the country, adding that the governments 
should have plans for confronting these threats and using these 
opportunities.

Earlier in 2009, Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail 
Ahmadi-Moqaddam had announced that the force plans to set up a 'cyber 
police' division to counter 'internet crimes'.

Ahmadi-Moqaddam said the unit would be tasked with monitoring organized 
cyber crimes on the internet.

Iran announced in March 2010 that it has arrested 30 individuals on 
charges of waging a US-backed cyber war against the country.

A statement issued by Tehran's Public and Revolutionary Court at the 
time said that following a series of complicated security operations in 
area of information and communication technology, the country's security 
forces have identified the most important US-backed organized networks 
of cyber war launched by the anti-revolutionary groups and arrested 30 
suspects.

The statement added that the networks received US aids and served 
Washington through such anti-revolutionary groups as the Mojahedin-e 
Khalq Organization (MKO), monarchist groups and a number of other 
opposition groups.

It further said that Washington provided such anti-Islamic Republic 
groups and networks with 70 million US-made anti-filtering software only 
during the recent demonstrations in Tehran in a bid to help them wage a 
psychological war against the Iranian nation and government.

According to the statement, some of the charges leveled against these 
US-backed networks include establishment of an intelligence gathering 
network, specially to identify the country's nuclear scientists, 
provoking sedition and illegal demonstrations and rallies through 
releasing unreal and unfounded news and reports after the June 
presidential elections in the country and providing media and news 
support for the Jundollah terrorist group and the monarchist opposition 
groups.


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