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A photo aired by Iranian state television shows Reza Karimi in an Interpol-style wanted poster. Tehran says Karimi was behind the sabotage at Natanz on April 11 that it has blamed on Israel (vide screenshot)
Iran has asked Interpol to help arrest a suspect in an attack on its Natanz nuclear facility which it blames on Israel, a local newspaper reported Sunday.
National television published a photo and identified the man as 43-year-old Reza Karimi, saying the intelligence ministry established his role in last week’s “sabotage” at Natanz.
The broadcaster said the suspect had “fled the country before the incident” and that “legal procedures to arrest and return him to the country are currently underway.”
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Footage of the Natanz nuclear facility aired by Iranian state TV on April 17, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter)
Iran has started the process of enriching uranium to 60% fissile purity at an “above-ground facility” at its Natanz nuclear enrichment plant, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Saturday, confirming earlier announcements made by Iranian officials.
“The Agency today verified that Iran had begun the production of UF6 enriched up to 60% U-235 by feeding UF6 enriched up to 5% U-235 simultaneously into two cascades of IR-4 centrifuges and IR-6 centrifuges at the Natanz Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement to the Reuters news agency.
Follow RT on Iran s intelligence service has named a suspect in the explosion that damaged the Natanz power plant last week. It says the culprit, identified as a man from a town near the nuclear facility, has already fled the country. Reza Karimi, the perpetrator of this sabotage. has been identified by the intelligence ministry, Iranian state television announced on Saturday.
Karimi was described in the report as a 43-year-old male who was born in the town of Kashan, not far from the Natanz facility.
Tehran had earlier blamed the incident on its arch-rival Israel and promised to retaliate. The Jewish state, which insists that the Iranian nuclear program is aimed at creating a bomb, is yet to publicly respond. Nonetheless, reports in the Israeli and western media, citing unnamed officials, have claimed that the
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