Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday said the Country will retaliate for an attack on an underground nuclear site, for which it has blamed Israel.
Iranian officials said the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, where new advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium had just been activated, was the target of nuclear terrorism on Sunday.
In the meantime, US intelligence officials said 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.
Israel has not commented, but public radio cited intelligence sources as saying it was a Mossad cyber operation.
Also, Iran’s Nour News agency, cited an intelligence ministry source as saying the perpetrator had been identified and an operation was under way to arrest them.
Israel has recently stepped up its warnings about its arch-foe’s nuclear programme amid efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear deal that was abandoned by former US President Donald Trump.
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