Report: Israeli cyberattack caused Iran nuclear site fire, F35s hit missile base

I read a report about a year ago where Israel had over flown Iran with their F-35 as a test run for a mission like this. Retaliation for Iran hacking Israel's water system.

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Report: Israeli cyberattack caused Iran nuclear site fire, F35s hit missile base

I read a report about a year ago where Israel had over flown Iran with their F-35 as a test run for a mission like this. Retaliation for Iran hacking Israel's water system.

I doubt we'll ever know the truth about this.

flashguy

Iran threatens retaliation after what it calls possible cyber attack on nuclear site - Reuters

"Iran's top security body said on Friday that the cause of the 'incident' at the nuclear site had been determined, but 'due to security considerations' it would be announced at a convenient time."

Uh-huh, when they've found a way to spin it to their advantage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0...-nuclear-damage.html

A Middle Eastern intelligence official said Israel planted a bomb in a building where advanced centrifuges were being developed.

A fire at Iran’s main nuclear fuel enrichment site caused significant damage, setting back the country’s nuclear program by months, the government acknowledged on Sunday, after initially saying the destruction was minor.

A Middle Eastern intelligence official with knowledge of the episode said Israel was responsible for the attack on the Natanz nuclear complex on Thursday, using a powerful bomb. A member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who was briefed on the matter also said an explosive was used.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity when discussing sensitive intelligence and operational topics.

Suspicion in Iran has focused on Israel and the United States, which have sabotaged the nuclear program in the past and have vowed to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In the past, Israel and the United States have used cyberattacks to damage Iran’s nuclear program, but that has been ruled out as a cause in this case, the Revolutionary Guards member said.

If the damage at Natanz was an attack by a foreign power, it reinforces Iran’s vulnerability as its economy is strangled by sanctions imposed by a hostile Trump administration and its population is ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tehran is increasingly isolated internationally; even countries that have opposed U.S. action against Iran recently joined in accusing it of hiding nuclear activity from international inspectors.

Israeli officials were vague on Sunday when asked about the possibility of involvement in an attack on Natanz, though they stressed the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran.

“Everyone can suspect us in everything and all the time, but I don’t think that’s correct,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Sunday in a radio interview with Kan, the state broadcaster.

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A Middle Eastern intelligence official said Israel planted a bomb in a building where advanced centrifuges were being developed.

A fire at Iran’s main nuclear fuel enrichment site caused significant damage, setting back the country’s nuclear program by months, the government acknowledged on Sunday, after initially saying the destruction was minor.

A Middle Eastern intelligence official with knowledge of the episode said Israel was responsible for the attack on the Natanz nuclear complex on Thursday, using a powerful bomb. A member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who was briefed on the matter also said an explosive was used.

Sure...smh. Once again, 'middle east officials' suffering from a lack of imagination but, go ahead with the boogeymen story.

Perhaps, it was Israeli sabotage, I'm more apt to believe incompetence, a cavalier attitude towards safety and an overall ignorance when playing with fire.

Iran has their own special "card" to play, it's called the "Israeli Card".

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Sure...smh. Once again, 'middle east officials' suffering from a lack of imagination but, go ahead with the boogeymen story....

In Iran a kid is asked where is assignment is, his reply is; "Mossad destroyed my homework!"

What happened to Israels water system? I never heard that before.

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I doubt we'll ever know the truth about this.

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Well we sure won't hear it from American media. We never get the truth from them.

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What happened to Israels water system? I never heard that before.

Hacked public water system treatment facility in an attempt to push chlorine levels to levels that could be health/life threatening.

Many municipal utilities worldwide have computerized control and monitoring systems (Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) ) and quite a few are vulnerable to exploit.

Based on those satellite images that were posted, whatever it was, it certainly seems to have put quite a dent in their topography!

If I had to guess, I'm thinking the "Hebrew Hammer" dealt a mighty blow.

My guess would be incompetence, and Israel is their cover. Perhaps a manager did not want to lose their job, or worse.

Sort of like our Dems blaming everything and everyone but themselves for a poor showing in the polls.

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Sort of like our Dems blaming everything and everyone but themselves for a poor showing in the polls.

I don't think so. The media just covers for them and buries the polls.

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Geez, watched this for 15 minutes waiting to see one go off and not joy. Good news is the Iranian Inspector seems to have set off a really big one.

it is hard to keep track now

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...r-factory-blast.html

Two killed in another explosion in Iran: Tehran blames 'Human error' for factory blast - days after fire hit a nuclear site and 19 died in a medical clinic gas leak

Two men have been killed in yet another Iran explosion, as officials blamed 'human error' for the blast.

The explosion rocked the Sepahan Boresh factory in the city of Baqershahr, south of Tehran, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to state media.

It was caused by 'workers being negligent whilst filling oxygen tanks', the town's governor Amin Babai was quoted as saying.

Three people were also injured in the blast, two of them suffering injuries so severe they required hospital treatment.

The blast is the latest in a string of explosions to have swept across Iran over the past two weeks, amid suspicions that Iran may have been behind at least one of them

'The explosion... was so powerful that the walls of the Saipapress factory nearby were also totally destroyed,' Babai said.

He added that 'firefighters had been on the scene' since shortly after the explosion,

Babai also said that firefighters had 'prevented further fires and explosions' from rocking the area.

On July 2, the country's atomic energy agency reported that an 'accident' had damaged warehouses under construction at the Natanz nuclear site, around 150 miles south of Tehran.

The organisation released a photo of a building apparently damaged by fire, with doors hanging off hinges after they appeared to have been blown outwards.

On Friday, Iran's Supreme National Security Council announced that the 'cause of the accident' at Natanz had been 'accurately determined' and declined to give further details, citing security reasons.

Agency spokesman Kamalvandi acknowledged to the IRNA state news agency that the incident had caused 'significant financial damage', but did not elaborate further.

He said the damaged building had been designed to produce 'advanced centrifuges', hinting that their assembly had begun prior to the 'accident'.

On the evening of July 2, IRNA published an editorial that warned Iran's arch-foes against hostile action.

The editorial warned Israel and the US against any attack on Iran's 'security' and 'interests'.

A Twitter account linked to an Israeli analyst had claimed in Arabic on July 1 that Israel had attacked an Iranian uranium enrichment plant.

The BBC's Persian service, which Iranian authorities consider hostile, said it received a statement 'hours before' the incident from a group called the 'Homeland Cheetahs' who claimed responsibility.

They claimed to be 'dissidents present in Iran's security apparatus' and said the location was targeted as it was not 'underground' and that therefore the alleged attack could not be denied.

Iran's civil defence chief, Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, told state TV on Thursday night that any proven cyberattack against Iran would elicit 'a response'.

Israel's Defence Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz said: 'Iran is aiming for nuclear [weapons], we can't let it get there.

He however added that 'not every event taking place in Iran is necessarily connected to us'.

On June 30, a powerful explosion hit the Sina At'har health centre in the upmarket northern Tehran neighbourhood of Tajrish, killing 19 people and damaging nearby buildings.

Authorities said it was caused by a fire that had set light to gas canisters in the clinic's basement.

Tehran's fire department spokesman Jalal Maleki told state TV that some victims 'were in upper floors in operation rooms, who were either patients being operated on or those with them.

'They unfortunately lost their lives due to the heat and thick smoke'.

That blast came just days after a gas tank explosion near a military complex east of the capital in Parchin on June 26, though there were no casualties in that incident.

Parchin is a site suspected of having hosted conventional explosion tests applicable to nuclear power, which the Islamic republic denies.

It had come under scrutiny from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in 2015.

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https://hotair.com/archives/ed...ar-program-archives/

The location of the explosion is not far from the warehouse where Iran’s nuclear archive was found by Israel in 2018. The Saipa Press Company is located about 11 km. northeast from the area where the nuclear archive was found in the Shurabad commercial area. A warehouse where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that nuclear equipment and material was stored is also located nearby in the Turouzabad area. The International Atomic Energy Agency found traces of uranium at the warehouse in 2019 and began investigating its origin, according to Reuters.

"The blast is the latest in a string of explosions to have swept across Iran over the past two weeks, amid suspicions that Iran may have been behind at least one of them"

https://www.breitbart.com/nati...ysterious-explosion/

Another mysterious explosion – a series of them, according to some sources – rocked Tehran on Thursday night, knocking out the power along the western edge of the city.

While Iranian officials characteristically rushed to deny that any explosions occurred or dismissed the incident as the latest in a string of minor industrial accidents, eyewitnesses and local media reported the blasts appear to have struck a missile storage facility used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.

Iranian state media quoted social media users who reported hearing the explosions to the west of Tehran and in the nearby cities of Garmdareh and Quds. Those areas soon reported power outages, although the governor of Quds insisted there had been no explosion and the power was only out for a few minutes.

“Along with the denial of the explosion, Iranian media reported that the mayor of Garmdareh had stated that the explosion was caused by gas tanks, but it was later discovered that the quoted mayor had died over a year ago and that the quoted news was from years ago,” the Jerusalem Post noted on Friday, translating a report from the Independent Persian.

“Iranian media had also reported that a security official in the region had attributed the explosion to highway construction, but it was later discovered that the quoted news was from over two years ago,” the Jerusalem Post added.

More confusing reports quoted local witnesses who said they heard no explosions but experienced a much longer power outage than the five minutes claimed by the governor of Qods (who, unlike the mayor of Garmdareh, was still alive as of Friday morning) and the fire chief of Qods, who said no explosions or other disaster incidents had been reported in the past 24 hours.

Apparently the fire chief did not hear the wailing sirens reported by i24 News on Thursday evening. The i24 report quoted an account of multiple explosions from Iran’s Mehr News Agency, plus a claim by Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabiya News that the explosions occurred at the missile depot in an IRGC military base. Deutsche Welle cited a report that different explosions were heard in Tehran, Garmdareh, and Qods.

The incident is the latest in a series of mystery explosions and fires at sites linked to Iran’s nuclear missile program, including a fire at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility on July 2. Iranian officials initially dismissed the fire as a minor workplace malfunction that lightly damaged a tool shed that was still under construction, but satellite photos clearly showed the damage was much more severe.

On Wednesday, the Iranian regime finally admitted the fire inflicted significant damage to the Natanz uranium centrifuge production facility, and finally began muttering about a deliberate campaign of sabotage that demanded an international response. Several Middle Eastern security officials have stated they believe the Israelis sabotaged the facility with a very powerful bomb.

The regime still has not conceded the full extent of the damage at Natanz, which appears to have destroyed almost three-quarters of the main centrifuge assembly hall, damaging that crucial installation so severely that a tear-down and rebuild may be required.

Someone's playing cat & mouse with Iran.

Here are two very interesting but speculative reports I found today via Powerline blog.com:

Airstrike or bombing: what happened at Natanz?

How have Iranian intelligence forces broken down in face of explosions?