Iran steps up its cybercrime game and Uncle Sam punches back

The US has issued indictments against three Iranians linked to the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their alleged roles in plotting ransomware attacks against American critical infrastructure, and also sanctioned multiple individuals and two entities. The criminal charges come as Iran has apparently …

[VoiceOfTruth]

Can't Iran indict the USA

For the coup against Mossadegh?

[Furious Reg reader John]

Re: Can't Iran indict the USA

I'm sure there is nothing stopping Iran from issuing indictments against the USA or whoever else the genocidal nutjobs who run Iran want to punish, with the added bonus of knowing it will get guaranteed guilty verdicts if they ever get hold of the people concerned.

Just ask Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani and Elham Choubdar how difficult it is to be indicted in Iran.

[VoiceOfTruth]

Re: Can't Iran indict the USA

Genocidal? Hmmm. Vietnam? About 3 million murdered. Iraq? About 1 million murdered. Who by? Answers on a postcard to American Apologists.

[Furious Reg reader John]

Re: Can't Iran indict the USA

You seem to be forgetting that Iran has a lot of that Iraqi blood on its hands - how much? Answers on a postcard to Iranian Apologists.

[jake]

Re: Can't Iran indict the USA

Whataboutism is never pretty.

[DS999]

Re: Can't Iran indict the USA

Well...it would be pretty unlikely anyone involved in the Mossadegh affair is still alive, considering it was 70 years ago, and being alive is typically required for an indictment.

[DS999]

Re: Can't Iran indict the USA

Better cash your paychecks quickly Russian stooge! Ukraine is winning the war, and when the last Russian soldier is sent back home with his tail between his legs and your paymaster Putin is overthrown and hopefully killed, you're going to have a find a less scummy way to make a living than trolling for IRA.

[jake]

Re: Can't Iran indict the USA

Don't massage its ego like that. It's unbecoming.

_{When you feed the trolls, you get to keep them.}

[jake]

Re: Can't Iran indict the USA

Wasn't MI6 in charge of that particular bit of International idiocy?

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop doing cybercrime Iran it's not cool and this is why nobody wants you to have nukes :V

[crayon]

"which the US considers a terrorist organization and claims has plotted to murder US citizens, including former National Security Advisor John Bolton."

Is that the same John “We know where your kids live” Bolton who threatened the former head of the OPCW (in the good old days when the OPCW was independent), because “We can’t accept your management style.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/29/john-bolton-trump-bush-bustani-kids-opcw/

[Michael Wojcik]

Bolton may be an ass (I'm certainly not a fan), but I don't think that means we should condone (alleged) assassination plots against him.

And, really, all the article claimed was that the US government alleges a plot to assassinate Bolton among the reasons why they consider the RG a "terrorist organization". Since they apply that label liberally, the whole death-to-Bolton accusation is pretty small potatoes.

[Anonymous Coward]

Are we REALLY going to complain if somebody decides to have Bolton inhumed?

It's not like he's not done enough of it.

[David 164]

If the US don't want it people targeted for assassination may be it should targeting Iranians citizens for assassination.

[David 164]

So nothing the US itself hasn't partaken in over the decades.