U.S. too weak to wage war against Iran: Washington ambassador

TEHRAN – U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland Donald Beyer has said that given the severe economic crisis in the United States the country’s military option against Tehran is beyond the realms of possibility.
 
The U.S. overall debt has exceeded $16 trillion and the country’s unemployment rate stands at 8.2 percent, Beyer said, according to Press TV.
 
The low-spending level in the U.S. budget over the past two years is unprecedented, the American envoy said, adding that there is a tacit consensus among Democrats and Republicans that the country’s military budget needs to be reduced.

With 900 military bases abroad, the U.S. has the highest military expenditure in the world, however the matter is no longer acceptable, he noted.
 
Under the prevailing circumstances, no one considers war with Iran as an option, Beyer stated.

The United States and the Zionist regime have frequently threatened threatened to use military force against Iran if Tehran does not stop its nuclear program.
 
As a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation regime Iran is legally entitled to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Urgent Windows Update To Kill Off Spy Virus

Microsoft has carried out an emergency update of Windows after discovering that the makers of a spy virus had exploited a software bug.

The Flame espionage tool infected PCs across the Middle East by tricking computer security systems into accepting it as a genuine Windows product.

Mike Reavey, a senior director with Microsoft's security team, said the attacks were targeted and "highly sophisticated".

As a result of the bug fix, any viruses that bears the fake Microsoft code are likely to stop working.
Microsoft declined to comment on whether other viruses had exploited the same flaw in Windows, or whether the company was looking for similar bugs in the operating system.

Experts said the method had probably been used to deliver other viruses that have not yet been identified.

"It would be logical to assume that (the virus creators) would have used it somewhere else at the same time," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for security software maker F-Secure.

Flame has been in circulation since 2010 but because of its complexity was only discovered last week.

It was aimed primarily at Iran, but also affected Israeli and Palestinian territories, Sudan, Syria and Lebanon.

Researchers say that technical evidence suggests it was built on behalf of the same nation that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010.

Information about the virus is still being gathered by computer analysts.