“The (Israeli) regime, with a notorious background in using cyber weapons in the cases such as Stuxnet, was this time attempting to harm Iran’s communications infrastructure,” Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi said later on Monday. However, “they had to go away empty-handed thanks to the vigilance of our technical teams,” Azari Jahromi said. Iran would take legal action against Israel at international bodies, he added, without giving details. His deputy, Hamid Fattahi, said technical teams had intercepted multiple attempts to infiltrate their systems early on Monday, and had been "strongly warded off". Earlier this month, the head of Iran's civil defense, Gholamreza Jalali, claimed thathad been discovered by Iranian authorities.Hamid Fatahi, the CEO of Iran's Telecommunications Company, stated on Twitter on Monday that the country hadCommenting on the attacks, Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi re-posted Fatahi's tweet, confirming that the hackers were "attempting to harm Iran's communications infrastructure," and also said thatEarlier this year, Israel claimed that it had accomplished a major cyber-heist, obtaining an archive that allegedly documented that Iran was continuing to work on its nuclear weapons program.
The Iranian telecommunication minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi accuses Israel of a failed cyberattack on its telecommunications infrastructure, and vows to respond with legal action.