RTE – April 11, 2021
Wreckage from a downed drone, thought to be an Israeli Hermes 900, which was intercepted flying toward Natanz in 2014. Click to enlarge for a much more detailed image
Iran’s atomic energy organisation has said the Natanz nuclear facility was hit by a terrorist act, hours after it said an “accident” had caused a power failure there.
The episode came a day after the Islamic republic said it had started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges at the site, in a breach of its commitments under a troubled 2015 deal with world powers.
Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Iran Atomic Energy Organisation (IAEO), condemned a “futile” act, while urging the international community to “confront this anti-nuclear terrorism”, in a statement carried by state television.
The attack was carried out by “opponents of the country’s industrial and political progress, who aim to prevent development of a thriving nuclear industry,” he said, without specifying what country or entity might be behind the alleged sabotage.
IAEO spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi had earlier reported an accident at the enrichment facility caused by a “power failure”.
No one was injured and there was no radioactive release, the official Fars news agency reported, citing the spokesman.
Mr Kamalvandi said there had been “an accident in part of the electrical circuit of the enrichment facility” at the Natanz complex near Tehran.
“The causes of the accident are under investigation and more details will be released later,” he added, before the later statement put out by the agency’s chief.
He did not say whether power was cut only in the enrichment facility or across other installations at the site.
Malek Chariati, spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s energy commission, took to Twitter to allege sabotage.
“This incident, coming (the day after) National Nuclear Technology Day, as Iran endeavours to press the West into lifting sanctions, is strongly suspected to be sabotage or infiltration,” Mr Chariati said.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani had yesterday inaugurated a cascade of centrifuges for enriching uranium and two test cascades at Natanz, in a ceremony broadcast by state television.
An Israeli public broadcast journalist, Amichai Stein, said on Twitter “the assessment is that the fault” at Natanz is the “result of an Israeli cyber operation”, without elaborating or providing evidence to corroborate his claim.
Iran’s president had also inaugurated a replacement factory at Natanz, after an explosion at a facility making advanced centrifuges there last July.
Iranian authorities likewise blamed the July incident on “sabotage” by “terrorists”, but have not released the results of their investigation into it.
The equipment inaugurated yesterday enables quicker enrichment of uranium and in higher quantities, to levels that violate Iran’s commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal it agreed with the five permanent UN Security Council powers, plus Germany.
The administration of then-US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from this multilateral nuclear accord in 2018 and re-imposed biting sanctions on Iran.
Iran later responded by progressively rolling back its own commitments under the agreement.
Mr Trump’s successor Joe Biden has said he is prepared to return to the deal, arguing it had, until Washington’s withdrawal, been successful in dramatically scaling back Iran’s nuclear activities.
Iran’s latest move to step up uranium enrichment follows an opening round of talks in Vienna on Tuesday with representatives of the remaining parties to the nuclear deal on bringing the US back into it.
The Vienna talks are focused not only on lifting the crippling economic sanctions Mr Trump reimposed, but also on bringing Iran back into compliance.
Iran’s nemesis Israel has always been implacably opposed to the 2015 accord.
In November last year, Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed by machine gun fire while travelling on a highway outside Tehran.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said a satellite-controlled gun with “artificial intelligence” was used in the attack, which Tehran blamed on Israel.
Uranium enrichment can produce the fuel for a nuclear reactor, or in highly extended form, the fissile core of an atomic warhead. It is one of the most sensitive nuclear activities carried out by Iran.
Mr Rouhani had again underlined at yesterday’s ceremony that Tehran’s nuclear programme is solely for “peaceful” purposes.
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As many regulars will know I believe nuclear weapons are a hoax, but I don’t believe nuclear energy is. The former requires a very fast chain reaction while the latter is concern with heating up water to drive turbines to produce electricity.
No, I believe the real reason for opposition to nuclear power – mindful of how the public will conflate it with “nukes” – is that the possibility of cheap plentiful clean energy contradicts the (misnamed) fossil fuel carbon generating fuels narrative. And as we know the powers that be would like to roll out their carbon credit system; you can’t do that when cheap energy doesn’t produce carbon. A world currency requires a world taxation system. That’s what carbon credits are
Along with this, I believe the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear incidents were not what they seem. The former happened the same month that the film “The China Syndrome” was released while Chernobyl occured towards the end of the Cold War allowing Gorbachev to wag his finger about the necesarily coming “world coming together”.
So, not only is Iran a target for (((American))) geopolitical aspirations but the NWO opposed nuclear energy. The public – and most here – who believe in “nukes” can be sold the narrative of Iran developing their own weapons.
(As an aside South Africa once claimed to have “nukes” and somehow lost/gave the technology up. And India/Pakistan made the claim in short succession. How likely is that ? If “nukes” are real how come India/Pakistan developed them decades ago while the modern state Iran, or any “Undesirable” nation/group, hasn’t developed one or/and let it one off.)
What the nice democratic leaders have to know ??
Is that Iranian are not stupid Arabs as e.g. Gadhafi, Sadam who tried to be friends with the nice democratic leaders & they ended up dead & their country destroyed ..
Israel TV is reporting Israel did it. It is a no brainer, we all know Israel did it. Those poor Iranians are so incompetent they can’t even stop an attack on their nuclear facility, and this is after they were hit with the STUXNET, and after repeated Netahyahu threats, and the destruction of Osirak reactor and the one in Syria.
Everyday an Iranian oil tanker is attacked. Iran is at war with Israel, and they can’t stop an attack on their most important asset?
israel is the worlds number one rogue state
LONDON CALLING LONDON CALLING
Advertisers for Monday
if you wish to advertise a product you should make it appeal to your target purchaser,
but TV advertisers suddenly every single advert featured a black man with a white girl
this unsubtle attempt to brainwash UK women came unstuck as a powerful group called the Black Women’s Caucus in a test case Sued Barclays Bank for racial discrimination saying their posters and adverts were implying back women were not good enough for their men, only white women were, Barclays Bank payed out a large undisclosed sum
and suddenly all these racist ads disapeared.
Several studies have shown the best marriages, are from your own culture background even from the same town you were born.
I recently was looking at food shelves for a sauce and instinctively avoided one with a chap named Ainsley Harriot’s face on it, thinking the sauce was only for black people,
you would not advertise cat food with a dogs face on it
so why in England would you put a black mans face on a product for English people ?
In the same way a Jewish chap named Lloyd Grosman has his face on a UK food product.
This kind of brainwashing goes further.
Tommy Robinson campaigns against Muslims, but he never mentions that Israel
is clearing the Middle East of its Muslim people and pushing them over to us, my MP tells me the Government is braced for millions of Syrians being pushed out of Syria and over to us, as Israel is taking over the region.
90% of Syrian oil and mineral wealth is being stolen by Israel with US help,
they robbed all he wealth of Iraq and even stole the Gold Reserves in the Iraqi bank,
special teams of Israelis took all the ancient Museum artifacts under cover of the US invasion.
Tommy Robinson is a jew, or as he is known to friends and enemies alike Tommy Rubenstein, he is a fifth columnist working for Israel under the guise of a British Patriot.
Fear based advertising works best and the fear generated by Government over this
Covid nonsense, has meat many people are afraid to leave their homes.
Bill Gates owns the Virus patent, which is rapidly becoming known as the Rothschild virus
as it serves his purposes and plans only too well.