An incident at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility on Sunday was is believed to have been caused by an act of ‘nuclear terrorism’ has created more concerns in Tehran as tensions continue to build up.
Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi on Sunday said Tehran reserves the right to take action against the perpetrators but however declined to reveal what the ‘actions’ could be.
Israel’s Kan public radio cited intelligence sources, whose nationality it did not disclose, as saying that Israel’s Mossad spy agency had carried out a cyberattack at the site.
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Earlier on Sunday, the spokesman for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) had said that a problem with the electrical distribution grid of the Natanz site had caused an incident, Iranian media reported.
The spokesman, Behrouz Kamalvandi, said the incident caused no casualties or contamination.
Iranian media later reported that Kamalvandi had an accident while visiting the Natanz site, ‘suffering a broken head and leg’.
The reports did not elaborate on the cause of the accident.
The facility, located in the desert in the central province of Isfahan, is the centrepiece of Iran’s uranium enrichment programme.
It is monitored by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Iran runs its nuclear programme from various facilities.
The Heavy Water Reactor is sited at Arak, while Bushehr hosts the nuclear power plant. Natanz is the site of the Enrichment Plant.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
