“The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a classified Israeli operation, said that the explosion had dealt a severe blow to Iran’s ability to enrich uranium and that it could take at least nine months to restore Natanz’s production." https://t.co/rWwRvSposs
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) April 11, 2021
#BREAKING: Attack at Natanz was a cyber attack in which the Mossad was involved. https://t.co/F1AT9UYU2g
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) April 11, 2021
#BREAKING: Iran nuclear energy chief Salehi condemns the "act of terrorism" targeting the Natanz enrichment plant, saying Iran "reserves the right" to respond- IRIB @KianSharifi
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) April 11, 2021
It probably says something about the size of the incident at Natanz and/or the visibility of it on satellite images that Iran has decided to announce it and the fact that the announcement specifically stated there was no casualties or pollution caused.
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) April 11, 2021
| From the Jerusalem Post article Skidmark posted in comments yesterday: |
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next Sunday amid increased tensions with Tehran.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi gave a rare strong hint pointing to Israeli involvement on Sunday.
"The IDF’s actions throughout the Middle East are not hidden from our enemies’ vision, who are observing us, seeing our capabilities and carefully considering their next steps," he said in a speech honoring Israel’s fallen soldiers.
"By virtue of clever operational activities, the past year was one of the most secure years that the citizens of the State of Israel have known," Kohavi said. "We will continue to act, combining power and discretion, determination and responsibility — all of this to guarantee the security of the State of Israel."
It also came less than a month after the IAEA reported that Iran had restarted enrichment at the Natanz facility and less than a year after Israel was blamed by foreign reports for an alleged attack on the facility, which reportedly had significantly impacted Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran is still nowhere near having recovered to the point where it had been before that July 2020 explosion in terms of its capacity for assembling new advanced centrifuges, the Post recently reported.
In the alleged attack last year, Iranian reports originally referred to the earth-shattering kaboom as an "incident" without providing further details.
"The centrifuge assembly hall was blown up by the enemy a few months ago, but we did not stop and temporarily set up the hall that made up for the lost hall," Iranian nuclear chief Salehi said Saturday, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. He did not specify which "enemy" was behind the attack last year.
Iran is working to move sensitive facilities at Natanz further underground and hopes the new underground halls will be ready next year, Salehi said.