Iran: an electricity malfunction at Natanz - It can be estimated it's an Israeli cyber attack

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by Ifi Reporter Category:Government Apr 11, 2021

The Iranian nuclear agency announced on Sunday a malfunction in the electricity system at the Natanz nuclear facility - less than a day after the announcement of the operation of advanced centrifuges at the site. It can be estimated that this is an Israeli cyber attack. Because according to reports, it was Israel that was behind cyber activity ten years ago, an activity known as "Staxent", a computer worm that caused a real disruption in the Natanz hubs.
The background to the malfunction is unknown, but the agency said that the issue is under investigation and the conclusions will be published later. The Iranians also used the report as a word that can be interpreted as both "accident" and "malfunction". An agency spokesman, Rose Camelbandy, stressed that there were no casualties in the incident, and that there was no fear of radiation leakage.

Just yesterday, President Hassan Rouhani announced the launch of IR-6 centrifuges at the same facility - as part of "Nuclear Day" celebrated in Iran. His speech was broadcast on Iranian state television in parallel with contacts with the powers that want to renew the nuclear deal with Tehran. Rouhani has insisted that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon only for civilian purposes - and has no intention of acquiring nuclear weapons. The centrifuges inaugurated yesterday in Natanz, according to the AFP, are able to enrich uranium faster and with better quality than the older centrifuges, which the nuclear agreement allows to be used.
Rouhani also mentioned other advanced centrifuges, the IR-9, whose trials began this week - and announced that they are dozens of times more efficient than the other models. He further claimed that from the moment the centrifuges were inaugurated, Iran had moved to the second part of the heavy water production process at the Barak facility.
Last July, another incident occurred at a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz. The Iranian nuclear agency did not elaborate on the details of the incident that occurred in the first week of the month, but Mayor Ramzanli Pardwasi said it was a fire. A spokesman for the Camelbandi agency later admitted that "heavy damage" remained at the site, but the site continued to operate normally and no damage was done to the main facility.
Following the ambiguous statements by the nuclear agency, the New York Times quoted an intelligence source in the Middle East as pointing to Israel as responsible for the explosion that led to the fire - noting that a "powerful bomb" was used. The American newspaper quoted a Revolutionary Guards source briefed on the subject and said that although the possibility that the attack had been carried out with a cruise missile or UAV had been examined, it seemed more likely that someone had managed to get the bomb into the building.
A few days later, intelligence sources told the New York Times that the blast could delay Iran's nuclear program by about two years. The paper also cited a study that said it would be at least a year before Iran's centrifuge production capacity returned to normal before the explosion.

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