{"id":20291,"date":"2018-10-29T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20291"},"modified":"2018-10-29T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:26:19","slug":"iranian-official-president-rouhanis-cellphone-tapped-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20291","title":{"rendered":"Iranian official: President Rouhani’s cellphone tapped ‘recently’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Iranian military official has revealed that President Hassan Rouhani’s mobile phone was tapped “recently”, without providing details on who was behind it, or what information was obtained.<\/p>\n

The semi-official ISNA news agency on Monday quoted General Gholam Reza Jalali as saying that Rouhani’s phone would be replaced with a more secure device.<\/p>\n

Jalali, who is\u00a0the head of a military unit charged with combatting sabotage, did not specify when exactly the tapping occured.<\/p>\n

Iran moved to boost its cyber capabilities in 2011 after the Stuxnet computer virus destroyed thousands of centrifuges involved in its contested nuclear programme.<\/p>\n

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Stuxnet is widely believed to be an American and Israeli creation.<\/p>\n

Jalali’s revelation comes just a day after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the stepping up of efforts to fight enemy “infiltration”, according to state media.<\/p>\n

“In the face of the enemy’s complex practices, our civil defence should … confront infiltration through scientific, accurate, and up-to-date … action,” Khamenei told civil defence officials, who are in charge of areas including cyber defence.<\/p>\n

The state television report did not give details of the “infiltration” Khamenei was referring to.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials have long warned about Western cultural influences through entertainment, social media and the internet as a threat against Islamic and revolutionary values.<\/p>\n

In recent years, the US and Israel have vowed to counter Tehran’s influence in the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Jalali had also announced that the country had recently neutralised a new version of Stuxnet.<\/p>\n

“Recently we discovered a new generation of Stuxnet which consisted of several parts … and was trying to enter our systems,” Jalali was quoted by ISNA as saying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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