Officials see Iran, not outrage over film, behind cyber attacks on US banks (openchannel.nbcnews.com)

Given that the Pentagon now sees cyberattacks as "acts of war", I wonder what the public response will be.

Considering that we very likely sabotaged their nuclear program, I can't really blame them for attacking our banks.

So.. the U.S. and Israeli governments physically destroyed parts of a uranium enrichment plant by custom-creating from scratch, the most sophisticated piece of malware the world has ever seen. Meanwhile, Iran responds by DoSing a couple of banks like a ten-year-old script kiddie. How cute.

"cyber aggression"

Wow.

This is weird. There are a couple of reasons they would want to bully the United States: to dissuade us from supporting an Israeli attack on Iran, and to force us to ease up on our campaign of economic sanctions. Realistically, though, they can't bully the U.S. They aren't capable of posing much of a threat, and they aren't popular with the American people or with the international community, so the U.S. is free to retaliate (proportionately or disproportionately) against serious aggression. Meanwhile, they have ample reason to play nice. They want to minimize international support for potential Israeli aggression, and they don't want to make it any easier for the U.S. to get other nations on board with the economic sanctions. Why would they want to 1) piss off the U.S. and 2) paint themselves as a rogue aggressor in the eyes of the international community?