A report issued by the “New York Post” revealed growing concerns in the United States due to accusations directed against a group of engineers linked to Iran of spying on “Silicon Valley.” According to the accusations, this group aims to steal extremely important technological secrets from giant companies, led by Google.
According to a federal indictment, three Iranian engineers, the brothers Samaneh and Survor Ghandali, in addition to Mohammad Javad Khosravi, face charges of exploiting their job positions to access sensitive information about the security of processors and encryption systems, and then leaking it to external parties.
This case highlights the presence of family ties between the accused and “Shahab al-Din Ghandali,” the father of the two sisters, who is considered close to the Iranian regime. Which exacerbates experts’ fears of the existence of an “undeclared war” and hidden intelligence activity within American scientific institutions.
These events are in addition to a series of disturbing incidents, in which academics and researchers have been accused of working for Tehran, which presents Washington with a difficult challenge of achieving a balance between maintaining an open innovation environment and strengthening security measures to protect the country’s strategic technological infrastructure.
