Iran has dismissed the long-standing intelligence chief of the Revolutionary Guard, considered one of the country's most powerful figures, as concerns mount over Israel's covert war on Iran's defense systems and its nuclear program.
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