Politics

In an All-Out Cyberwar, Iran Would Be a Formidable Foe

Since 2012 it’s carried out dozens of major attacks.

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Trump has vowed that Iran will never join the nuclear club, but that hasn’t stopped it from developing powerful weapons of a different sort. Unlike conventional warfare, cyberwar has no Geneva Convention or other rules limiting harm to civilians.