The Iranian foreign minister has said his country will "take revenge" for an attack on an underground nuclear site, for which it has blamed Israel.
Iranian officials said the Natanz uranium enrichment plant was the target of "nuclear terrorism" on Sunday, after initially reporting a power failure.
New advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium had just been activated there.
Israel has not commented, but public radio cited intelligence sources as saying it was a Mossad cyber operation.
They said this had caused more extensive damage than Iran had reported.
US intelligence officials told the New York Times that a large explosion had completely destroyed the independent internal power system that supplied the centrifuges inside the underground facility.
They estimated it could take at least nine months to resume enrichment there...
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The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry warned the Zionist regime that Iran will get its revenge at the proper time and place for Sunday’s act of “nuclear terrorism” that targeted an enrichment facility in Natanz.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, Saeed Khatibzadeh denounced the incident involving the electricity network of Ahmadi Roshan nuclear site in Iran’s Natanz as a “crime against humanity.”