Iran Flexes Its Power by Transporting Turkey to the Stone Age

Observer ^ | April 22, 2015 | Micah Halpern

[Former Proud Canadian]

Half of Turkey—44 of 81 provinces, 40 million people including those living in Istanbul and Ankara, suffered a massive power outage that lasted a solid twelve hours. It happened on Tuesday, March 31st.

It happened because Iran wanted it to happen. The blackout in Turkey was caused by a cyber hack that originated in Iran.

This cyber attack was payback, a taste of what Iran has to offer. Everything went down. Computers, airports, air traffic, traffic lights, hospitals, lights, elevators, refrigeration, water and sewage, everything simply stopped. In an instant, Turkey was transported back to the stone ages.

[Old Sarge]

One of the most interesting parts of this story is, where is the MSM? Is this story being suppressed because it would mean NATO is at war with Iran?

[dfwgator]

Which is why I want Turkey out of NATO, I don’t want us to get dragged into a war just to bail the Turks out.

[bgill]

Finding it hard to believe if Turkey knows for certain who did it since they haven’t retaliated. Also, 12 hours is a very quick turnaround. Smells more like smoke and mirrors.

[tbw2]

Turkey is also drifting Islamicist, under Endrogan. AKA, rolling back the rules prohibiting head scarves on campus and making religious school degrees good enough for civil service jobs and going to college.

[Georgia Girl 2]

They try to hack our grid every day. One day they will figure it out. Forget EMP. It will be a cyberhack.

[Former Proud Canadian]

A software hack scares me a lot less than a physical attack that would destroy the infrastructure. However, neither is desirable.

[Kartographer]

"Forget EMP. It will be a cyberhack."

[MHGinTN]

A cyber attack, if done a certain way, will destroy a lot of ‘infrastructure’ which will take months to replace and get the system up again. Learn from the Northeast black outs. Overloads are disastrous.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Personally I think that when Iran gets too close to having a bomb we should EMP them. Then we hand them a list of criteria that need to be fulfilled to get the lights back on.

[Kartographer]

How do you send someone back to the stone-age when better than half the country lives there daily?

[Georgia Girl 2]

LOL! Good point

[McGruff]

What if I told you

This is all BS.

[A CA Guy]

A chilling reminder to the middle east as to why it is in their best interest to combine their forces into defeating a crazy neighbor that would eventually attack them with overwhelming numbers if allowed to fester longer.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Missing in all of this is the pondering of the question “if they are willing to do this to their alleged friends, what might they be willing to do to their sworn enemies?”

Never mind.

[Former Proud Canadian]

I’ll bite. Why is that?

[Former Proud Canadian]

Perhaps smoke and mirrors but...

I don't think Turkey is ready to take on a regional superpower. Especially one with a burgeoning nuclear ability and a growing alliance with the USA.

When the rest of the world sees the USA kowtowing to a bellicose Iran, it changes everything.

[TEXOKIE]

As I understand it, Turkey and Iran are NOT friends. They belong to the rival factions of Islam.

Iran is Shia, Turkey is Sunni.

[piasa]

bumping this because of newest hacking revelations.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Bring me up to date, please.