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Name: Aditi Sharma Period: 0 Committee: Terrorism Topic: Cyber Terrorism Country: Iran

I. COUNTRY POLICY Iran is definitely against cyber terrorism, and we are willing to do everything to help end this destructive behavior. We have had an increase of 2,900% of internet usage between the years of 200 and 2005. We now have over 7,500,000 internet users currently, but the number is constantly growing. Since more people of our country are using the internet to buy and sell goods, our e Commerce rate has grown, and at the end of 2006, our purchase and sale rate was at approximately $12.8 billion. We understand just how important this issue is, and to prove how serious we are to resolving it, we have placed as one of the top five targets in our Commission on Making Criminal Policy and Reforming the Penal Law. We believe that it is very important to keep the users of the internet in our country safe, and we are definitely willing to work together with other countries to find a resolution to this predicament.

II. UN INVOLVEMENT The UN is very concerned about this problem, and is determined to solve them as quickly as possible. In order to end this horrible act, the United Nations has funded the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Terrorism, otherwise known as IMPACT. This organization has been created in order for private and government businesses to band against cyber terrorism, and increase their cyber security. A member of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Ahmed Kamal, has written a book called The Law of Cyber-Space-An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations. This book talks about the importance of holding an international convention on the dangers of cyber terrorism and how to find solutions. The United Nations is apprehensive about this difficult problem, and they are eager to solve it as soon as possible.

III. SOLUTIONS Some solutions that Iran supports are the United Nations International Telecommunication Union, which has dedicated its time to ending cyber terrorism. Some other qualifications we would like in a resolution are to improve the laws that are related to cyber crime in our country, define a way to cooperate with other nations that may have suffered from problems in cyber crimes, and promote general perception within the internet users. Thus, we would like to propose a global conference on cyber terrorism, which is based solely on this issue. This is one topic that we need to give attention to, and find a resolution for, as soon as we possibly can.

References: http://www.unodc.org/iran/en/crime_prevention.html http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=432 http://worldanalysis.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=411 http://www.unodc.org/iran/en/crime_prevention.html http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue1/0106p34.htm