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
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The incident threatens to undermine recently revived diplomatic efforts between Washington and Tehran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
Newly inaugurated centrifuges at Iran s Natanz facility, a centerpiece of the country s contentious nuclear program, appeared to have been badly damaged in Sunday s incident, which Tehran has described as an act of nuclear terrorism .
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Men work inside of an uranium conversion facility just outside the city of Isfahan, about 410 kilometres south of capital Tehran, Iran. The cities of Isfahan and Natanz in central Iran are home to the heart of Iran s nuclear program.(Getty)
Israel s army chief hinted at possible Israeli involvement in the attack in comments on Sunday.
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A satellite image shows the Natanz Nuclear Facility in Isfahan, Iran, October 21, 2020. (Maxar/Reuters)
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Whether it was a cyberattack or a deliberately planned explosion that caused a serious power outage at Iran’s underground Natanz uranium enrichment plant on Sunday, it was most likely carried out by Israel. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif blamed Tel Aviv for the sabotage and vowed to “take revenge on the Zionists,” while also promising to replace the damaged centrifuges at the site with even better ones. Iran described the attack as “nuclear terrorism.”
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