Mubasher: Iran on Monday announced the failure of US cyber attacks on its military, but hinted that it could be willing to discuss new concessions with Washington, if sanctions were to be lifted and new incentives to be provided, according to Reuters.

Tensions between Iran and the US escalated, as the confrontation was gaining a military dimension.

After Iran downed a US surveillance drone last week, US President Trump said that he aborted a retaliatory strike, sparing the lives of too many people.

However, this was followed by reports that the US launched cyber attacks.

The previously planned attacks managed to hit Iranian missile launch systems, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

“They try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack,” Iran’s information and communications technology minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Twitter.

Tensions between Tehran and Washington escalated since President Trump withdrew from a 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six major world powers, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), re-instating sanctions against the country.

Trump said that the accord did not go far enough and Tehran should make more concessions.

While President Hassan Rouhani’s adviser Hesameddin Ashena reiterated Tehran’s long-standing demand that the US lift sanctions under the deal, he also made a rare suggestion that Iran could be willing to discuss new concessions, if the White House offer new incentives beyond those in the JCPOA.

“If they want something beyond the JCPOA, they should offer something beyond the JCPOA; with international guarantees,” Ashena said via Twitter.

In the same vein, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi indicated that Tehran did not “want a rise of tensions and its consequences,” Reuters cited ISNA news agency.

This was also suggested by the US president who said that he did not seek a war with Iran, and he is prepared to hold talks.

Trump claimed that he called off an air strike on Iran partially because it was not certain if Tehran has shoot down the US drone intentionally.

However, navy commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi stated that Tehran is ready to do it again.

“I can assure you that this firm response can be repeated, and the enemy knows it,” Khanzadi told the Tasnim news agency as quoted by Reuters.