"The US is actually training terrorists by launching training courses and educating cyber war experts at its air force," member of the parliament's Legal and Judicial Commission Mousa Qazanfarabadi told FNA on Wednesday.
He said while the US and its main ally, Israel, are themselves the worst sponsors of terrorism in the world, they raise unfounded claims against other countries to deviate the public opinion from their crimes.
His remarks came after reports said earlier this month that the United States army is developing cyber capabilities to sabotage facilities and installations of other countries, specially Iran.
The Air Force Weapons School recently graduated its first six airmen specially trained in cyber warfare. The Wall Street Journal reported that it was evidence of changing priorities for US forces.
The elite Weapons School is the Air Force version of the Navy's Top Gun program. Col. Robert Garland, commandant of the Weapons School, said cyber doesn't look or smell like a fighter plane or a bomber. But, he said, cyber warriors are needed more and more to counter a threat that's no less real than others the country faces.
Iran has long been a victim of the US and Israeli terrorism, specially state-sponsored nuclear terrorism. The US and Israeli spy agencies have admitted that they have assassinated Iran's nuclear scientists and tried to infiltrate virus and other types of malware into Iran's cyber network to hinder the country's progress in the field of civilian nuclear technology.
Also earlier this month, a senior Iranian military commander lashed out at the US and Israel for promoting state-sponsored terrorism in the world.
"The big world capitalist states (the US and Zionists) embark on terrorist moves in various arenas for their survival," Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri said.
The general further explained that such areas of terrorism include, "terror of thoughts and thinking, assassination of scientists, conventional assassination attempts, cyber terror, cutting city and transportation roads, and support for cultural discord".
He called on those regional nations which have experienced popular uprisings to stand against such plots which he described as a "heavy typhoon" and find a remedy for them.
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