Iran set to scuttle Internet in a suitcase plan: minister.

TEHRAN, July 2 (MNA) -- Iranian Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour has said that Iran has taken the necessary technical measures to thwart the "Internet in a suitcase" plan. "Certain measures that the United States and its allies are adopting are examples of cyber terrorism," Taqipour told reporters on Saturday. The New York Times reported on June 12 that the U.S. administration is leading a global effort to deploy "shadow" Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks. The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype "Internet in a suitcase." Financed with a $2 million State Department grant, the suitcase could be secreted across a border and quickly set up to allow wireless communication over a wide area with a link to the global Internet. EP/PA END MNA

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