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