As far as targeting the Brits, that is the perfect attack by proxy to get the U.S.' attention,".
VOA: standard.2009.07.02
There is no way that a 37 year old Harvard grad would be on the Motorola board unless Icahn had fought a proxy contest to get him on (along with Bill Hambrecht in a 2008 agreement).
Many of those posting messages said they could not connect directly to World of Warcraft but could get access when they used a proxy server outside Iran.