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In addition to fighting Israel, Iranian authorities are also waging war against suspected spies and infiltrators, asking citizens to report anyone they consider suspicious. This includes alerting authorities if they see people wearing sunglasses at night, wearing hats, reporting stolen license plates, seeing pick-up trucks with covered beds, or observing vans being driven about during odd hours, which the regime says could be signs of undercover enemies to the nation.. In the weeks since Israel launched its attacks on Iran earlier this month, Iran has arrested hundreds of people, who are quickly tried and often executed. The regime has also...

The worm may have turned. Iran is claiming to have arrested several spies who may be responsible for the crippling cyber attack that has plagued the country's Bushehr nuclear power station. "We are always facing destructive activities by these [Western spy] services, and, of course, we have arrested a number of nuclear spies to block the enemy's destructive moves," Intelligence Minister Moslehi told Iran's state-run Press TV. At the center of the attack is the Stuxnet worm, a self-replicating malware that targets systems made by Siemens AG, and commonly used in industrial plants and power grids around the world. Most...

Josef Stalin had a pet term for many of those he consigned to the Gulag for ten or twenty-year terms--wreckers. Individuals convicted of this particular crime were said to have committed industrial sabotage on a massive scale, which was then used as one of the reasons reason why a particular factory or industry failed to make their quota in a certain state plan.