On Thursday, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said that the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility “is operating as usual”, since the reactor was not damaged in an explosion and there were no casualties following the incident.
The Kuwaiti daily al-Jarida has quoted an unnamed “senior” source as saying that Israel was allegedly behind last week’s explosion at Iran’s Parchin military complex and Thursday’s blast at the Natanz nuclear site in the Islamic Republic. Israeli government officials have not commented on the matter yet.
The Jewish state has repeatedly accused Iran of supporting “terrorist” groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and of waging proxy wars in countries such as Syria which could pose a threat to Israel’s security. Tehran, which refuses to recognise Israel’s right to exist, denies the charges, saying that there are only Iranian military advisers in Syria.
The source claimed that the Parchin incident was the result of an air strike conducted by Israeli F-35 stealth fighters, while the Natanz explosion was caused by an Israeli cyberattack against the uranium enrichment plant.
According to the source, the blasts resulted in Iran losing more than 80 percent of its UF6 (uranium hexafluoride gas) reserves, something that may significantly slow down Tehran’s enrichment drive.The claims came after The New York Times reported, citing an unnamed Middle East intelligence official, that the Natanz blast was caused by an “explosive device planted inside the facility”.
The official asserted that the explosion destroyed “much of the aboveground parts” of the Natanz facility, where cutting-edge uranium enrichment centrifuges had been placed before being put into operation.
This followed Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi confirming the blast, which occurred on Thursday morning, adding that the Natanz plant “is operating as usual” because the reactor was not damaged and there were no casualties.Kamalvandi also noted that there has been no pollution at the site, as there was no nuclear material at the plant.
The Natanz incident took place six days after a blast near the Parchin military complex located about 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the Iranian capital Tehran. Iranian authorities insisted that the explosion was a result of “leaking gas tanks”, in what came amid reports about satellite photographs showing that the blast occurred at a nearby missile production facility.
The Natanz plant, in turn, remains Iran’s primary uranium processing facility, located 270 kilometres (155 miles) south of Tehran.
The two explosions came after Tehran began moving away from its uranium enrichment commitments in May 2019, in retaliation for the Trump administration’s decision in 2018 to unilaterally withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and to reinstate crippling sanctions against the Islamic Republic,
Despite its promise to suspend JCPOA obligations, Tehran has repeatedly stressed that it has no goal of manufacturing nuclear weapons, and that its uranium enrichment programme is purely peaceful.
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It is a pure lie and it meant to show that Israel has such a power and that the Iranians are so inept That can not protect their sensitive sites. However, it is quite possible that there are those traitors that sell their country for a fist full of Dollars. Shame on thrm, hangem high. .
NOT Iranians, it is mullahs who are inept.
We are the most peaceful, caring, and loving nation on the face of the earth, but Mullahs are NOT. They are vindictive, vicious, hateful and belligerent. We Iranians don’t have any hate from any nation including state of Israel, but Mullahs do.
Criminal mullahs always provoke and send young, naive people to do their dirty work. No mullahs ever went to Syria to fight with Israel or get killed. Yet, they sent other people to get killed. They always stay away themselves. They’re too busy to make sigheh (shia temp. marriage) inside Iran.
The same scenario was during revolution. No mullahs ever got killed during revolution. They used to go to mosques and provoked people to come on streets chanting against shah. They used to stay away.
The same scenario was during Iran- Iraq war. Again, NO mullah ever got killed, it was all ordinary people who went to the front of the war and got killed in defending Iran’s territory.
Mullahs have got to go.
LONG LIVE PEACE, LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN 2 GREAT NATIONS OF IRAN AND ISRAEL.
Based on all this, it looks like Israel set fire to Queen Esther’s tomb too, hence the laughably piss poor attempt to contact the Iranian Jewish community only to be told, “Who dis?”, by a confused bunch of actual Hebrews by the Rachel Dolezals calling them like Giorgy Shwartz or Bernie Sanders.
I am sure there are so many decent Iranians who work in nuclear sites. They’re also don’t want criminal mullahs have access to atomic bomb to wipe Israel off the map. They’re offering information as a “humanitarian aide” to outside world. God bless them.
Criminal mullahs have got to go back to MOQUES, where they belong. Mullahs have been trained to be Mullahs, NOT politicians. They have to go back to mosques to preach religion. That’s all.
Their place is NOT in politic.
MULLAHS HAVE GOT TO GO
If that’s the case then Iran has international justification to retaliate proportionally and is a victim of state sponsored terrorism in need of $200 billion in damages.
This should be added as a rider to the ongoing ICC cases against Israeli war crimes.
The UNSC should be called into a meeting to sanction Israel for its war crimes in the past and ongoing against the Iranian people.
As far as I’m concerned, 6 million Iranians were Holocausted in that empty shed. Pay up, motherf***ers. 😁