Frmr NZ MP: Iranians, fire that will burn US, Israeli regional hegemony

A former parliament member of New Zealand referring to IRI capabilities for countering threats, said here Wednesday Iranians are a blazing fire which would devour US and Israeli hegemony in Mideast region. Richard Mason made the comment in an exclusive interview with IRNA late Wednesday evening, further reiterating, “The events during the past fortnight, namely hunting the US super-sophisticated espionage drone and catching red handed a US spy in Iran have been a great shock against the US military and intelligence apparatuses.” The former New Zealand MP added, “My sources in Washington have told me that when the US President Barack Obama had summoned the top CIA and Pentagon officials to the White House to survey those matters, wrath and fury was seen in his facial gestures and his voice when he was asking about the reason why the Iranians had managed to bring down the stealth drone unharmed in Iran.” He said, “Electronic war in the modern world, including taking advantage of the Stocksnet Virus against Iran’s nuclear facilities, side by side with the conventional espionage activities, comprise a part of a combination of moves by the Americans in continuation of their antagonist moves against your country.” The New Zealander intellectual further elaborated, “Of course it seems as if the capabilities of Iran in confrontation with such threats are now beyond the estimations of the Americans thus far. Hunting the US stealth drone and catching a US spy red handed are examples of the old saying that says he who plays with fire would get his hands burned.” He emphasized that Iran has always been a pioneer and forerunner, particularly in computer sciences and electronics, adding, “The Iranians very soon figured out the methods for countering the new US and Israeli intelligence methods, and it seems as if they have already achieved exemplary mastership in them, as well.” Mason said, “The US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said last week after the Iranians’ hunting of the US espionage drone that the US drones’ operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran would continue.” He emphasized, “Iran’s masterpiece in taking as a war booty the US drone was in fact revealing the real face of the Americans to the world nations. Launching espionage operations from the soil of Afghanistan against its neighbor Iran shows in fact the real objective of the Americans in their military occupation of Afghanistan.” The former New Zealand MP reiterated, “the Americans invaded Afghanistan on pretest of campaign against terrorism and al-Qaeda, but it is now revealed that their real objective had been exertion of their hegemony in the region and launching espionage operations against the regional countries from there. Therefore, Iran has the natural right to consider the presence of foreign forces in its neighboring countries as a threat against its own security and to launch efforts aimed at their evacuation form those countries.” He added, “The Americans take advantage of these espionage operations and launch air raids in Pakistan, clearly violating the national sovereignty of that country over its air space. But Iran has proved that it knows ways for countering such threats perfectly well.” Richard Mason added, “Although this is an interesting victory for Iran, but the Iranians must as always beware of the Israeli threats and the warmonger government of Netanyahu, which might resort to any type of unpredictable move aimed at leading to a full scale confrontation.” The Iranian cyber military forces downed a “stealth” drone, not by shooting at it but by fooling its GPS system into thinking it was landing at its home base. Senior U.S. officials denied the story at first, but in the long run confessed to the fact and President Barack Obama asked for its return! In justification of their defeat, the Americans later on said that Global Positioning System signals aren’t very strong -- local television can interfere with them sometimes. According to the Iranian source, if a drone's signal were jammed, the drone would go on autopilot. At that point, the Iranian military could “spoof” the GPS signal, essentially fooling the drone into thinking it was in a different location than it actually was. There are two GPS signals that go out to drones. One is a military-grade signal that is heavily encrypted. The other is the civilian one that isn’t as secure. By fooling the drone, the Iranians saved themselves the trouble of actually trying to break the encryption on the telemetry from the drone’s base. The captured drone, called an RQ-170 sentinel, was designed with stealth in mind, which is why it looks rather like a B-2 bomber. It also contains some of the most advanced electronics the military uses. While this is not in principle a simple operation, the complicated part is in the details. It isn’t clear that the Iranian military could have fooled the drone with enough precision to land it without crashing, and the drone that appears in the Iranian news services’ footage looks to be in remarkably good shape. These are the points that have made the eastern and western military and electronic war experts confused about the extent of Iran’s advancement in these fields.