In the midst of the alleged Israeli cyber attack against the Natanz plant there is the resumption, albeit feeble, of talks to resume the nuclear deal between the US and Iran. In Vienna in recent days there are "indirect" talks between the US and Iran to consider a possible approach on the issue. The Iranian Atomic Agency reported that the accident at the uranium enrichment site suffered only a small explosion, there were no casualties. The Islamic Republic has no doubts, it was Israel. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif replied immediately: "If they thought it would put us at a disadvantage in the negotiations, they had to understand instead that this desperate act would make our position even stronger ”.
Tehran has not remained helpless and has already warned the Jewish state, "revenge ”will come only at the right time". Internal investigations continue and Iranian security sources say they have already identified a person as a possible responsible. Now, according to the country of the ayatollahs, it is up to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) to investigate this act of nuclear terrorism.
An episode that took place a few hours after the implementation of the new enrichment centrifuges that raised alarms, prompting the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to warn Tehran that "is not making a positive contribution " to diplomacy. After the suspicious incidents of the past months and the killing of the scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is a new blow for the defense of the Islamic Republic. Israeli responsibility is also confirmed by US intelligence sources, who hypothesized a 9-month stop for the nuclear complex. Tehran, on the other hand, excludes serious damage and with the spokesman of its Atomic Agency Behrouz Kamalvandi he assures that activities have already resumed, pending repairs to the electrical system of the affected section.
"We reject any attempt to undermine or weaken ongoing diplomatic efforts ", which aim "that of trying to clarify all the open issues related to the Iranian nuclear deal“, Meanwhile, the European Union announced, while the American Secretary of State arrives in Brussels Antony blinken. Fears of a possible slowdown in negotiations also come from Russia, whose foreign minister Serghei Lavrov Instead, Tehran is expected to renew the strategic cooperation agreement between the two countries, after the one already signed for 25 years between Iran and China. At the talks with Blinken in Brussels there will also be the head of Pentagon Lloyd Austin, arriving from Jerusalem, where he met the head of the Israeli government Benyamin Netanyahu who harshly said: "As premier I will never allow Tehran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating Israel ”.