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Iran: How a Third Tier Cyber Power Can Still Threaten the United States

Barbara Slavin, Jason Healey

July 2013

Atlantic Council

Abstract

The Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force and Cyber Statecraft Initiative have colaunched a new issue brief entitled “Iran: How a Third Tier Cyber Power Can Still Threaten the United States.” Written by South Asia Center Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin and Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey, the brief evaluates Iran’s cyber warfare capabilities and the United States’ vulnerability to cyber attacks within the context of already tense relations between the two nations.