Iran says it was a victim of “nuclear terrorism” during a power outage at it Natanz uranium plant as U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Israel this weekend. The damage occurred as the Biden administration and Iranian officials danced around talks about returning to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal that had slowed Tehran’s progress toward nuclear weapons.
The Sunday blackout followed an explosion at the site “that completely destroyed the independent — and heavily protected — internal power system that supplies the underground centrifuges that enrich uranium,” the
Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, said the explosion was an act of “nuclear terrorism” and called upon the international community to act.