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Lawmaker Hints at Israel’s Role in Cyberattack against Iran

Iranian women wait for a train in a subway station in the capital Tehran. (AFP)
Iranian women wait for a train in a subway station in the capital Tehran. (AFP)
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Lawmaker Hints at Israel’s Role in Cyberattack against Iran

Iranian women wait for a train in a subway station in the capital Tehran. (AFP)
Iranian women wait for a train in a subway station in the capital Tehran. (AFP)

The Israeli Parliament’s Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Ram Ben Barak hinted at Israel’s role in a cyberattack attack on Iran’s railway network.

On Saturday, Iran’s national railway's website and cargo services were disrupted in a cyberattack. Iran reported unprecedented chaos at stations with hundreds of trains delayed or canceled.

Iranian Minister of telecommunications Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi warned about possible cyberattacks though ransomwares.

Ben Barak said that Iran continues to launch attacks against Israeli institutions and bodies. It therefore must be aware that it is not secure, he added, without confirming that Israel stands behind the cyberattack.

Ben Barak stressed that Israel can’t stand idle towards attacks on it.

In 2019, an error in the Iranian railway company’s computer servers caused multiple delays in train services.

After the "Stuxnet" cyberattack in 2000, the authorities disconnected most of the infrastructure from the internet. At that time, it was reported that the cyberattack was carried out jointly by the US and Israel, Israel Defense editor Dan Arkin said.

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Thousands Join Effort to Clean Up Catastrophic Spanish Floods

Rescue workers walk, following heavy rains that caused floods, in Paiporta, near Valencia, Spain, November 1, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Rescue workers walk, following heavy rains that caused floods, in Paiporta, near Valencia, Spain, November 1, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
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Thousands Join Effort to Clean Up Catastrophic Spanish Floods

Rescue workers walk, following heavy rains that caused floods, in Paiporta, near Valencia, Spain, November 1, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Rescue workers walk, following heavy rains that caused floods, in Paiporta, near Valencia, Spain, November 1, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

An arts and science center which normally plays host to opera performances was on Saturday transformed into the nerve center for the clean-up operation after catastrophic floods in eastern Spain which have claimed at least 207 lives.
Volunteers went to Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences for the first coordinated clean-up organized by regional authorities, Reuters reported.
On Friday, the mass spontaneous arrival of volunteers complicated access for professional emergency workers to some areas, prompting authorities to devise a plan on how and where to deploy them.
Carlos Mazon, Valencian regional president posted on X on Friday: "Tomorrow, Saturday, at 7 in the morning, together with the Volunteer Platform, we will launch the volunteer center to better organize, (and) transport the help of those who are helping from the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia."
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was due to address the nation on Saturday morning.
In some of the worst-hit areas, people have resorted to looting because they have no food or water. Police said on Friday they had arrested 27 people for robbing shops and offices in the Valencia area.
More than 90% of the households in Valencia had regained power on Friday, utility Iberdrola said, though thousands still lacked electricity in cut-off areas that rescuers struggled to reach.
Some 2,000 soldiers were deployed to search for people who are still missing and help survivors of the storm, which triggered a new weather alert in the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, where rains are expected to continue during the weekend.
Officials said the death toll is likely to keep rising. It is already Spain's worst flood-related disaster in more than five decades and the deadliest to hit Europe since the 1970s.