A senior Iranian lawmaker said Saturday that the Islamic Republic enjoys the scientific know-how to immediately defuse any threat against its cyber assets, Press TV reported.

Lauding Iran's achievements in the field of cyber defense, Mansour Haqiqatpour, a member of Iran's Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said that "Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran has achieved such scientific advancement in the field of cyber operations that it can defuse any attack at the shortest possible time."

"Therefore, any attempts by the U.S. and the Zionist regime (of Israel) to infiltrate and attack Iran's nuclear facilities with the aim of creating disruption, will fail," Haqiqatpour was quoted as saying.

An unnamed official at Cyber Command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces Headquarters said that the Islamic Republic would give a strong response to any possible cyber attacks on the country's nuclear facilities, Tehran Times reported on Thursday.

"They should be aware that Iran will give a proper response to any act of defiance," the official was quoted as saying in response to reports about possible cyber attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that two of Iran's uranium-enrichment plants were struck by a cyber attack earlier this week that shut down computers.

The virus closed down the automation network at Iran's Natanz and Fordow facilities, said the report.

Over the past few years, Iran has been the target of numerous cyber attacks aimed to disrupt the country's nuclear systems. Iran has accused the United States and Israel of being behind the cyber attacks.