Siemens accused of Stuxnet virus attack

An Iranian military commander has accused German engineering company Siemens of helping the United States of America and Israel launch a cyber attack on its nuclear facilities. Gholamreza Jalali, head of Irans civilian defense, said the Stuxnet virus aimed at Irans atomic program was the work of its two biggest foes and that the German company must take some of the blame. Jalali said Iran should hold Siemens responsible for the fact that its control systems used to operate complicated factory machinery which had been hit by the virus.Staff computers at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power station had been hit but that the plant itself was unharmed.Some defense analysts say the main target was more likely to be Irans uranium enrichment. Western powers accuse Iran, a major oil producer, of seeking to develop nuclear weapons capability, something Tehran denies.