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An Iranian minister said Monday that the US was unsuccessful in its cyber attacks against Iran this week after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack,\u201d said Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran\u2019s minister for information and communications technology, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedia asked if the claimed cyber attacks against Iran are true,\u201d he said. \u201cLast year we neutralized 33 million attacks with the [national] firewall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tensions between Washington and Tehran have flared since Iran on Thursday shot down the US drone. Iran said the drone violated its airspace \u2014 a claim the US denies \u2014 near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

In response, the US was ready to carry out a military strike against Iran but US President Donald Trump said he called it off at the last minute after being told some 150 people could die.<\/p>\n

The aborted attack was the closest the US has come to a direct military strike on Iran in the year since the administration pulled out of the 2015 international agreement intended to curb the Iranian nuclear program and launched a campaign of increasing economic pressure against the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

But after the drone\u2019s downing, Trump secretly authorized US Cyber Command to carry out a retaliatory cyber attack on Iran, The Washington Post reported Saturday.<\/p>\n

The attack crippled computers used to control rocket and missile launches, according to the Post, which cited people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

Yahoo cited two former intelligence officials as saying the US targeted a spying group responsible for tracking ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, where Washington has blamed Iran for two recent mine attacks on oil tankers.<\/p>\n

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