America and its allies are weighing further covert action against Iran amid the realisation that sanctions are failing to bring it to heel.
After weeks of teetering close to war with the Islamic republic,Washington is pulling back from the brink of open hostilities and moving into the shadowy world of covert operations.
The US launched cyber-attacks on Iran earlier this month in retaliation for attacks on tankers in the Gulf that were blamed on the state.
The operation was believed to be similar to one in 2010 in which the so-called Stuxnet virus caused serious damage to Iran’s nuclear programme.
Bill Burns, a former US deputy secretary of state who spent decades dealing with Iran, said that there was an increasing acceptance that sanctions were…
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