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Report: Obama Ordered Iran Cyberattacks

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Against systems that run nuclear facilities.

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According to The New York Times' David Sanger, President Obama secretly ordered attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s nuclear-enrichment facilities during his first months in office. Sanger cited participants in the program to claim that Obama accelerated the attacks that begun in the Bush administration, code-named Olympic Games, even after a part of the program was accidentally leaked because of a programming error that became known as Stuxnet.

Read it at The New York Times