Iran has deployed civil defense systems to dozens of cities and towns to foil a potential attack, a senior Iranian official said Saturday, amid rising tensions with Israel and the United States.
The defense equipment, in 51 locales, will enable Iran’s armed forces to “identify and monitor threats by using round-the-clock software according to the type of the threat and risk,” deputy defense minister Mehdi Farahi was quoted as saying by Iranian media, according to Reuters.
“These days, depending on the strength of countries, the form of battles has become more complicated,” Farahi said.
He added that hybrid forms of warfare — including cyber, biological, and radioactive attacks — have replaced classical wars, but did not name the countries that could threaten Iran, Reuters reported.
Iran has accused Israel of sabotaging its nuclear program and killing a number of its nuclear scientists, as well as conducting cyber attacks, some with the US, against the country’s infrastructure and nuclear sites. It has also blamed Israel for assassinating several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in recent months.
Tensions have remained high amid a back and forth between the US and Iran via mediators from the European Union, over a potential return to the 2015 nuclear accord.
The European Union put forward on August 8 what it called a final text. Iran proposed changes to it — largely accepted by the Europeans — to which the United States issued a response through the mediators, saying it was “not constructive.”
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