Iran vows revenge for nuclear terrorism

Special Desk

Iran has said it will take revenge from Israel. Iranian foreign ministry has made a statement saying it 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, where new advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium had just been activated, was the target of, after initially reporting a power failure.

Israel has not commented, but public radio cited intelligence sources as saying it was a Mossad cyber operation. They said it had caused more extensive damage than Iran had reported.

US intelligence officials said 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.

Iran’s Nour News agency, which is affiliated to the Supreme National Security Council, cited an intelligence ministry source as saying the main 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.

His successor, Joe Biden, has said he wants to return to the landmark accord. But Iran and the five other world powers still party to it – China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK – need to find a way for him to lift US sanctions and for Iran to return to the agreed limits on its nuclear programme.

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European Union said it still needed to clarify the facts about the Natanz incident, but that it rejected any attempts to undermine or weaken diplomatic efforts on the nuclear agreement.

Iran, which insists it does not want nuclear weapons, has retaliated against the sanctions reinstated by the Trump administration by rolling back key commitments under the accord.