Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali made the announcement at a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday, ahead of Iran’s Passive Defense Week beginning on October 27, the Mehr news agency reported.
We will hold cyber maneuvers next week “in five or six major zones to test cyber infrastructures… NATO member states and European Union countries are among those who have held cyber exercises, but it will be our first such maneuver,” Jalali said.
In early September, Jalali told Press TV that Iran has acquired the necessary infrastructure to defend against soft threats.
Iran has been the target of several cyber attacks over the past few years.
In June, the New York Times revealed that US President Barack Obama had secretly ordered a cyber attack with the Stuxnet computer virus against Iran to sabotage the country’s nuclear energy program.
In addition, a report published by the Washington Post in June said that the United States and Israel had jointly created the computer virus Flame -- a Stuxnet-like espionage malware -- to spy on Iran.
In response to these attacks, Iran launched a cyber defense headquarters tasked with preventing computer worms from breaking into or stealing data from the country's maximum security networks, including nuclear facilities, power plants, data centers, and banks.
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