Natanz, being the protagonist of today since it was the nuclear plant that received the cyberattack or at least possible cyberattack was built largely underground to resist the enemy’s air attacks. It became a hotspot for Western fears about the Iranian nuclear program in 2002, when satellite photos showed Iran was building its underground centrifuge facility at the site, about 200 kilometers south of the capital, Tehran.
What happened in this possible cyberattack
The Iranian underground Natanz nuclear facility ran out of power this Sunday, just hours after launching new advanced centrifuges capable of enriching uranium more quickly, in an incident described by an Iranian lawmaker as probable “sabotage” and by intelligence officials. unidentified Westerners as a possible cyberattack.
The spokesman for the nuclear program, Behrouz Kamalvandi, told Iranian state television that the power supply had been cut to the entire facility consisting of surface workshops and underground enrichment rooms. “We still don’t know the reason for this power outage and we need to investigate further,” Kamalvandi said.
This cyberattack complicates the negotiating strategy of President Hasan Rohani, who for a week has been in an indirect dialogue with Washington to try to recover the nuclear agreement, and gives arguments to the most radical sectors of the country, who ask to stop the negotiation. Israel does not usually confirm or deny its operations in Iran, but this time the national press unanimously reported from the first moments that what happened in Natanz was a cyberattack and not a simple electrical problem.
See also:
Stuxnet, the first cyberwar computer worm
What is cyberwar or technological warfare
