The incident at the Natanz nuclear site took place April 11
TEHRAN, April 17. /TASS/. Iran will go ahead with its nuclear program despite assassinations of nuclear scientists and subversive acts at its nuclear facilities, Chief of Staff of the President of Iran Mahmoud Vaezi said in a Twitter post on Friday.
Read also Iranian [nuclear] progress cannot be stopped by assassinating of nuclear physicists and damaging nuclear facilities, he wrote. The start of uranium enrichment to 60% is a clear indication of Iran’s progress and an obvious sign to adversaries.
The incident at the Natanz nuclear site took place April 11. Iran reported that an outage was registered at the site’s power distribution grid, which led to an explosion. There were no victims or environmental damage. The Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi called the incident a display of nuclear terrorism. The New York Times claimed citing its sources that the explosion was organized by Israel.
According to Foreign Minister, Russia resolutely denounced the scientistâs murder at various levels
MOSCOW, December 12. /TASS/. The international community is interested in the results of a probe into the murder of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Iran’s state television and radio broadcaster on Saturday.
Russia resolutely denounced the scientist’s murder at various levels, including an official statement by its Foreign Ministry, Lavrov said. We consider this murder as a provocation aimed at destabilizing the situation in the region, which is burdened with a large number of problems and contradictions and has seen years-long attempts of interference from the outside, Russia’s foreign minister said.