Iran Says It Has Detected Second Cyber Attack
fysdt writes "Iran has been targeted by a second computer virus in a 'cyber war' waged by its enemies, its commander of civil defense said on Monday. Gholamreza Jalali told the semi-official Mehr news agency that the new virus, called 'Stars,' was being investigated by experts."
They also had a secret police that brutally repressed any dissent. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK. The Shah came to power when the CIA overthrew the democratically elected President Mossadegh. So there's that too.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
My mother who grew up in Tehran went to school, drove a Benz and who's mother ran the grocery store that my parents owned. Then the Shah was overthrown and my entire family (aunts/uncles/cousins etc) left for the US. The Ayatolla regressed 100 years of progress.
An interesting pictorial:
Photographs of students at Cairo University. Pay special attention to the hairstyles/headdress that the women in the pictures have. In the first pictures, you could mistake this photo for any university in the mid 50s. While in 2004, you'd never confuse this for some university in the middle of Oklahoma.