Iran Says It Foiled Sabotage Attempt On Arak Reactor

[Purveyor]

Source: REUTERS

DUBAI (Reuters) - Pumps at Iran's planned Arak reactor, seen by the West as a potential source of plutonium for nuclear bombs, were tampered with in a failed attempt to sabotage the country's nuclear program, a senior official said on Monday.

Asghar Zarean, deputy chief for nuclear protection and security at the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, said the incident was one of several such attacks foiled over the past few months, the official IRNA news agency reported.

He did not name the targets of the other alleged attacks or who might have been behind them, according to IRNA.

Iran has in the past often accused its Western and Israeli foes of seeking to sabotage its nuclear program, which Tehran says is peaceful but the United States and its allies fear may be aimed at developing a nuclear weapons capability. It has also accused its enemies of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists.

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[BetterThanNoSN]

1. just imagine...

...if it was found Iran attempted to sabotage a nuclear reactor in Isr. or the US. I can read the headlines now, "Iran Risks Lives of Millions in Meltdown by sabotaging peaceful nuclear site". They would have been attacked already.
Now that it's admitted where Stuxnet came from, it leaves little doubt who is still meddling with their nuclear sites.

[azurnoir]

2. Gosh who'd do a thing like that?

[Corgigal]

3. as the USA walks around humming this song

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Were the destruction instructions in Hebrew?