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Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 3:29 pm
Over the weekend, Iran marked National Nuclear Technology
Day. The stars of the show were going to be new advanced
centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
Unfortunately, the stars did not shine and President Hassan
Rouhani and his officials were left with a reminder of the
previous time the centrifuges at Natanz crashed. In 2010, a
joint US-Israeli operation
against Iran’s nuclear program is said to have destroyed a
fifth of the Iranian centrifuges, using the Stuxnet
virus.
A sequence of events have been viewed
cumulatively as suggesting that this was no error of
engineering so much as plain sabotage. Israel was again the
Iran’s foreign minister is warning that a weekend attack on its main nuclear enrichment site at Natanz could hurt ongoing negotiations over its tattered atomic deal with world powers.
AEOI spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi in his hospital bed after falling into the Natanz crater.
Who knew a devastating attack on a nuclear plant could have its slapstick moment? Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), told reporters on Monday that the explosion in the Natanz plant created a big crater, so big that he had fallen into it and injured his head, back, leg, and arm.
And there was an unmistaken admiration on the part of some Iranians for the daring and execution of the attack. Like Fereydoun Abbasi, head of the Parliamentâs energy committee, who told Iran’s state TV: âThe enemyâs plot was very beautiful. Iâm looking at it from a scientific point of view. They thought about this and used their experts and planned the explosion so both the central power and the emergency power cable would be damaged.â Abbasi noted that the power plant for Natanz was between 120 and 150 feet underground â hence the crat