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Daybreak: Flame Consumer Iran’s Computers

Plus ‘Polish death camp’ becomes Polish grudge, and more in the news

by
Marc Tracy
May 30, 2012
Members of Iran's Assembly of Experts over the weekend.(Atta Kenare/AFP/GettyImages)
Members of Iran's Assembly of Experts over the weekend.(Atta Kenare/AFP/GettyImages)

• An Iranian group confirmed that Iranian computers had been infected by the new malware Flame, calling it “dangerous.” [NYT]

• An Israeli firm confirms that Flame has had a major impact on Iranian systems. [Haaretz]

• Poland is making an international issue out of President Obama’s use of the term “Polish death camp” while giving Jan Karski the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday. [JPost]

• The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi offered a preview of his presidential campaign against former Mubarak prime minister Ahmed Shafik: namely, that he (Morsi) will not be another autocrat. [AP/NYT]

• A dispatch from the Gaza-Egypt tunnels. [NYT]

• Mitt Romney is sounding (fairly) hawkish on Syria. But some Republicans want the U.S. to do even more, and others want it to do less. [NYT]

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.