Israel allegedly played a role in sabotaging the Natanz uranium enrichment complex, the hub of Iran's nuclear program.
The New York Times reports this, citing American intelligence sources, according to which due to the explosion it could take at least nine months to restore production in Natanz.
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There is the shadow of Israel on the mysterious accident on Sunday morning at the uranium enrichment complex in Natanz, the hub of the Iranian nuclear program, where new centrifuges prohibited by the 2015 agreement were inaugurated yesterday. The "sabotage" "it concerned the electricity grid of the Chahid-Ahmadi-Rochan plant and caused neither casualties nor leaks of radioactive material.
It is an "act of terrorism", accused Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Iranian atomic agency, calling for a position taken by the "international community and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)".
From Israel, it was Israeli public television Kan that claimed authorship of the Jewish state on the attack calling into question unspecified "intelligence sources" according to which it was "an Israeli cyber-operation in which the Mossad was involved".
Also according to sources, the damage caused to the plant is higher than reported by Tehran.
Meanwhile, the Defense Council of the Israeli government has been convened for next Sunday, after a pause of two months, to examine the growing tensions with Iran.
From Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu came a sort of declaration of war that sounds like a confirmation.
"The fight against Iran and its metastases, against the weapons of Tehran, is an enormous task. The situation as it exists today does not necessarily exist tomorrow," he said cryptically to the security chiefs during a toast. ahead of Independence Day.
"We - he added - are certainly a regional power but in some way also global. I hope for all of us that you continue to hold the sword of David in your hands".
After the explosion of July 2020 always in Natanz and the killing last November of the scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, for which Iran has attributed the responsibility to Israel, today's events raise the tension in a Middle Eastern theater where the new US administration attempts to reaffirm a role of moderation without abdicating, indeed quite the opposite, the historic alliance with Israel.
The incident, which came at the end of a week of talks in Vienna to save the 2015 nuclear deal, sounds like a warning after the launch yesterday of new centrifuges to enrich uranium more rapidly.
It was President Hassan Rohani who inaugurated a line of 164 IR-6 centrifuges and another of 30 IR-5 centrifuges in Natanz with a videoconference ceremony broadcast by state television.
On the same day in which the clarification came from Washington that the Biden administration will not remove all the economic sanctions imposed by Donald Trump but, possibly, only those that are not in line with the 2015 agreement. "An iron fist inside. a velvet glove ", was the close response of the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, who specified that" Iran's strategic policy is only a full removal of sanctions " .
