Iran: Stuxnet 'failed' to stop nuclear work, as virus reportedly stops operating

With the computer virus Stuxnet, which was designed to infiltrate and destroy Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, reportedly no longer operating as of midnight June 24, Tehran is declaring that the cyber effort "failed" to derail its nuclear program.

The software's creators designed it to shut down after Sunday, The Christian Science Monitor first reported, and Iran's semi-official news organization, FARS News Agency, is celebrating the news by claiming that Iran's nuclear program is still going strong. “At one second past midnight Sunday, the United States' most powerful known cyber weapon will cease to operate after it failed to clandestinely infiltrate and then wreck Iran's nuclear fuel enrichment program,” FARS wrote in a story with a headline declaring “no major breakthrough” in deterring Iran’s nuclear work. The White House declined to comment.