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This policy brief gives an overview of Iran's cyber capabilities. Defensively, Iran is working to achieve two main goals: first, to create a 'technological envelope' that will protect critical infrastructures and sensitive information against cyberspace attacks, and second, to stop and foil cyberspace activity by opposition elements and opponents to the regime. Offensively, the cyberspace strategy is part of the doctrine of asymmetrical warfare, a central principle in the Iranian concept of the use of force. The focus of Iran's cyberspace activity directed against Israel and the West requires appropriate defensive arrangements, write the authors, and will need broad inter-state cooperation.