0617 GMT: All is Well at the Book Fair? Press TV proclaims, "Iran to Hold 25th Intl. Book Fair", but others are not so sure of the celebration. Voice of America and Khodnevis report on the leading publishers --- Café Lavasan, Title, Cheshmeh, Sales --- that are banned or restricted
0600 GMT: We open this morning with another problem for the Islamic Republic --- the cyber-attacks that threaten an oil industry already trying to overcome sanctions.
Yesterday Iranian media reported that the "Viper" virus had attacked the computers of Iran's infrastructure, including the Ministry of Oil, the National Iranian Oil Company, and the country's installations. Equipment at Kharg Island, which handles about 90% of Iran's oil exports, and other plants were disconnected from the Internet as a precaution.
The sites of the Ministry of Oil and National Iranian Oil Company have now been restored, with the reassurace that the "main data" has not been compromised, as it was on an internal network of servers not linked to the Internet. This morning State news IRNA headlines with the declaration that "all functional units are active".
Still, the source of the attack has not been identified --- Germany's Der Spiegel points at Israel's intelligence service Mossad --- and Iran faces other, continuing problems with its oil. Yesterday it emerged that 56% of the Islamic Republic's tanker capacity was being used for floating storage, for the crude that is no longer being sold on the international market.
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