Behrouz Kamalondi, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told Iran’s Fars News Agency on Sunday that an “accident” occurred in the electricity distribution network at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran on Sunday morning. .
Kamalondi said the accident caused no injuries or contamination, adding that the cause of the accident is under investigation and that more information will be announced later. Centrifuges -6 and IR-5 in Natanz.
The reported incident comes less than a month after the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Iran had done so. Re-fertilization At the Natanz facility, less than a year after foreign reports blamed Israel for an alleged attack on the facility that reportedly severely affected Iran’s nuclear program. In last year’s alleged attack, Iranian reports originally referred to the blast as an “accident” without providing further details.
“The centrifuge meeting room was blown up by the enemy a few months ago, but we did not stop and temporarily installed the room that replaced the lost room,” said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the centrifuge office. Salehi did not specify which “enemy” was behind last year’s attack.
Salehi added that Iran is working to move sensitive facilities at Natanz underground, hoping that the new underground rooms will be ready next year.
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if (window.location.pathname.indexOf (“656089”)! = -1) {console.log (“hedva connatix”); document.getElementsByClassName (“divConnatix”)[0].style.display = “ninguno”;}US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will arrive in Israel on Sunday to discuss Iran’s nuclear program and Iranian activity in the region, among other issues, with Israeli officials. This will be the first visit by a high-ranking official from the Biden administration to Israel.
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Israel has disrupted Iran’s nuclear program in the past, including the Stuxnet cyberattack discovered in 2010, which targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges and blamed Israel and the United States.
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The incident also comes as tensions rise between Israel and Iran amid a series of attacks on Iranian and Israeli naval vessels, with recent reports claiming that Israel has attacked dozens of Iranian ships in recent years.
On Tuesday, an Iranian military spokesman blamed Israel and the United States for causing an explosion in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Saviz boat In the Red Sea, in a statement to the Sputnik news agency on Thursday.-
“The United States undoubtedly participates in all attempts to undermine and harm Iran,” the spokesman said, adding that Iran does not accuse any of the Gulf states of being involved in the incident.
The report also comes as Iran meets with European and American officials to discuss the possibility of returning to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the official name of the 2015 nuclear deal signed between the Islamic Republic and world powers.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned several times last week that Israel would defend itself against Iranian threats, emphasizing that Israel would work to combat Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
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