Iran unveils 12 cyber products

Iran unveiled 12 new home-made technological products in the cyber field, including a secure cell phone, in December. Thehome-made  products were unveiled in a ceremony attended by Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan and Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali in Tehran in December. At the ceremony, the Iranian defense minister pointed to the secure cell phone, and said, “The biggest concern and need of cell phone users is security of communications to be immune from tapping, and this product can provide full and sustainable security to threats." Brigadier General Dehqan further mentioned that another product unveiled today is a home-made, secure operating system produced jointly by SaIran, knowledge-based companies and some Iranian universities, and said, “This product can fully remove one of the serious concerns that is dependence of the country’s crucial and sensitive infrastructure on foreign-made operating systems.” The Iranian defense minister enumerated other products unveiled at the ceremony as an indigenized navigation system, telecommunications optical transmission system, Padvish anti-malware, cyber threats recognition and identification system, security operations center, a high-speed and high-capacity firewall and a software firewall. Early in June, Supreme Leader's top aide Ali Akbar Velayati hailed the Iranian IT engineers and experts for their good progress, and said the arch foes of the Islamic Republic, the US and Israel, have been stunned by Tehran's cyber power. "Both the US and Israel have admitted the Islamic Republic of Iran's cyber power," Velayati said. He also said that compared with other sciences, the cyberspace in Iran has shown a significant growth along with the progress of this science in the world. In relevant remarks in February, an official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced that Iran enjoys the world's fourth biggest cyber army, stressing that the (IRGC)'s power is seen as a major counterbalance to the US and Israel in the region. The IRGC with its cyber power and soft war capabilities is "the fourth biggest cyber power among the world's cyber armies", Deputy of the Supreme Leader's representative at the IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Sepehr said. He said the IRGC's deterrence power has endangered the US interests in the region, and stressed that despite enemies' threats and sanctions, the IRGC's powerful will can crush the US and the Zionist regime in the region. Iran's cyber power was also earlier acknowledged by an Israeli think tank which cautioned that Iran enjoys remarkable capabilities in the filed of cyberspace technology and can repel enemies' cyber attacks against its vital infrastructures.