Cybersecurity
Iran’s Cyber Attack on Billionaire Adelson Provides Lesson on Strategy
- Digital warfare likely among Iran’s options for retribution
- Cyberfeud between Iran and U.S. dates back more than a decade
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As the U.S. awaits possible retribution over a recent airstrike that killed a top general, there’s at least one American businessman who can attest, in detail, to what happened after he provoked Iran.
In October 2013, Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and prominent supporter of conservative politicians and Israel, appeared on a panel in New York in which he suggested that the U.S. could send a message to Iran, regarding its nuclear ambitions, by detonating an American warhead in the middle of the Iranian desert.