Tel Aviv
Israel and Iran are waging a cyber war in which everything takes place in the shadows while successes are never officially claimed. The last episode of this discreet confrontation could have taken place on Friday. A mysterious explosion occurred in Natanz, 250 km south of Tehran, in an ultra-sensitive nuclear site.
The Iranian authorities first explained that it was a bomb, before speaking of a cyber attack which caused a blast. Several Iranian officials then spoke of the Israeli lead and raised the threat of reprisals if these accusations were proven. On the Israeli side, the usual silence is de rigueur. "I do not answer this kind of question," confined himself to declaring Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, for whom Iran equipped with nuclear weapons constitutes the worst catastrophic scenario.
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More verbose, the Israeli media gave some details on the chosen target. The attack would have
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