Israel has all but openly admitted it was behind the large-scale blackout at Natanz, Iran’s primary nuclear facility and reactor. The Iranian terror regime’s Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged the cyber-attack had damaged the electricity grid at the site. Israeli defense chief, Aviv Kochavi, said, according to news reports, that the country’s “operations in the Middle East are not hidden from the eyes of the enemy.”
This strike was done as Team Biden continues to push for talks with Iran, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Israel.
The Guardian noted that the “apparent attack took place hours after officials at the Natanz reactor restarted spinning advanced centrifuges that could speed up the production of enriched uranium, in what had been billed as a pivotal moment in the country’s nuclear programme.”
Whether this was a cyber-attack or internal sabotage, or a combination of covert efforts, is not yet clear. What is clear is that Israel is sending a very public message.
Israel imposed no censorship restrictions on coverage as it had often done after similar previous incidents. Israeli Public radio took the unusual step of claiming that the Mossad intelligence agency had played a central role.
Israel remains highly focused on neutralizing Natanz, with a mysterious explosion damaging a centrifuge assembly plant last July, and in 2010, a combined CIA and Mossad cyber-attack using the Stuxnet computer virus delayed Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program several years.
But, this is just the most recent clash in the ongoing ‘shadow war’ between Israel and Iran.
As the Guardian explains:
The unexplained shutdown is thought to be the latest in a series of exchanges between the two arch-enemies, who have fought an extensive and escalating shadow war across the Middle East over more than decade, centred on Iran’s nuclear programme and its involvement in matters beyond its borders.
Clashes have more recently been fought in the open, with strikes against shipping, the killing of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist, hundreds of airstrikes against Iranian proxies in Syria, and even a mysterious oil spill in northern Israel, which officials there have claimed was environmental sabotage.
Iran’s nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, called the apparent Israeli action a “terrorist attack” and urged the international community and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to take action against the attackers. The IAEA said it was aware of the reports but declined to comment further.
This attack comes at an awkward time for President Biden as he seeks to re-engage Iran on talks to renew the failed 2015 nuclear deal. And Team Biden responded quickly:
“The United States had no involvement,” a senior administration official speaking on the condition of anonymity told U.S. News almost immediately after receiving an email query, adding, “we have nothing to add to speculation about the causes.”
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Biden will probably want to send a billion or so in cash to Iran on Pallets in the middle of the night to repair their damaged electrical grid….John Kerry will personally deliver it……after all it’s TRUMP’s fault..( that is the universal excuse for every stupid thing Democrats do )
Ya’ know…
I would be… NOT AT ALL surprised… if that Despot-Ass-licking Sh1tBird did exactly THAT. And, YES, I can just see HermanMunster groveling at their feet during the presentation of a planeload of “Benjamins”…
A good friend of mine was a captain for Southern Airways, which operated Lockheed L-382 aircraft to transfer materiel between USAF Repair Depots. He told me one flight his fellow Southern Airways pilot flew was over to a country in Africa. The cargo consisted of several pallets of money! You’re not just whistling Dixie with your conjecture.
Actually, it was Southern Air Transport. We called it CIA Airlines.
LISTEN UP…ANYONE Who is NOT a FRIEND to ISRAEL….Is GOD’S ENEMY. MY SPIRIT and MY SWORD Work for GOD. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
I don’t give a frog’s fat butt about Israel. America needs to cease supporting that country, and forge our energy independence, economic vitality, sovereignty and cultural stability (The latter would be possible if liberals were marginalized.)
The last time this happened, obama was ‘president’ and announced on world wide tv that it was a covert operation between the US and Israel.
So much for letting the STUPID/TRAITOROUS know about SECRET stuff.
if, during a security briefing it let slip that a special lot of Kelloggs Corn Flakes that was shipped to Iran contained fissionable material every box of cornflakes in the middle east would be dumped and searched less than 10 minutes after the meeting.
Senile Joe Biden is empty suit Obama’s puppet, via liar Susan Rice’s messages!
May I offer a minor correction, or… elaboration…
Gropey-JOke is definitely o-BonG0’s puppet, but th’ REAL puppet-master is soros, and th’ ManchurianMUZZLIM (o-BonG0) is definitely a soros Organ-MONKEY !!!
The mosad is welcome to make biden and company disappear. Mysteriously or blatantly.
They’re choice.
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!! MOSAD, THEY ARE BADASS SOLDIER’S, THEY WOULD MAKE SURE DEAD IS DEAD!!!
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With a GUTLESS MINDLESS President DIRTY BIDEN in The White House he Loves Iran & China!
I’m glad to know Israel still has a lead that knows what to do about Iran!
We use to have a President that made IRAN pay for everything they did!
The SWAMP CREATURE DEMOCRATS IMPEACHED HIM TWICE!
Now we have DUMB and DUMBER In THE WHITE HOUSE &IRAN SMILING 😃😃😃
Numb Nuts was sworn-in to public office while his wife lay dying–indeed, the ceremony took place in the hospital! (The last such profound performance of this caliber took place on Air Force One, which was flying back to D.C. from Dallas..) Could there be a more ‘liberal’ display of perpetual angst and justification to implement any agenda they desire on such merits? I would seriously suggest that the death of Mrs. Biden (Or whatever gender/species pronoun she demanded) be investigated. Though it appears the Biden “Justice Department” is busy exacting revenge upon Trump’s supporters.
Would Americans PLEASE cease fretting about foreign countries? We have a peck of domestic issues to concern ourselves with. American Sovereignty should be the paramount issue our population demands.
Senile Democrap sleepy Joe Biden is a foreign policy Putz!
Hey joe blow, BLM IS RUNNING RAMPANT, the DESTRUCTION, the VIOLENCE, YOU ARE EGGING THESE PEOPLE ON, DAMN IT joe why don’t you care about America??? YOU CAN NOT TELL ME YOU DO, ACTIONS ARE LOUDER THAN WORDS!!! YOU ARE THE VERY WORST PERSON TO BE president, THE WORST!!! I HOPE A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK OR STROKE GETS YOU!!! SOON!!!
Israel is a well run country. They do what must be done for protection.We have slow joe opening the borders so terrorists can walk right in. Joe blow is making it easy for our enemies to hurt us.
The illegal dictatorship will send aid to the Iranian terrorist government, and assholes in the majority illegally in congress will support him. The dictatorship, has Obama nitwits criminals hiding behind the curtains, as senile puppet Biden signs endless executive orders to remove all our most basic freedoms. Biden decided we do not need the constitution anymore, we got us them here rigged elections now. We must obey our illegal Globalist communist masters, they know best. If you challenge the rigged election they put you on a list like all dictatorships, based one on party propaganda news. and a weaponized central government. The democrats Globalist socialist party dictatorship will last 1,000 years ( similar to Hitler’s), after HR 1 is illegally passed. We must obey our illegal masters and embrace communism, or else.
Let’s concern ourselves with the COUP that took place in the U.S. during 2020. Let those Middle Eastern people hash out their own problems.
Israel terriers ?
Sadly, Israel will not get rest until the millennium. I can only hope and pray we do not aid her enemies… We have already experienced some of God’s judgement for doing them wrong in the past. But, the condemnedocrats never learn and won’t listen.
Those people have been at each other’s throats for generations. America does not need to take sides in those feuds. Our nation is in serious trouble, and our government must focus their efforts on relieving our debts, sealing or borders, restoring our manufacturing base and forging our energy independence and sovereignty. We’re only prolonging the strife in that region by supporting Israel.
Good for Israel, to close to home for them! At least they are doing something about Iran’s nuclear threat!
If Iran was a signatory to the Nuclear Treaty, they’ll be dealt with by agencies designated to inspect their plants and stockpiles. Trump may have torn up that agreement, but he was on the right track to extract America from that region.
I believe Israel has a right to defend itself, and since the Arab world has, in general, been threatening Israel since its inception, I don’t blame Israel at all for doing what it has to do to survive.
Yes, they have that right, but we’re not supposed to be supplying weapons and funding for their campaigns. Watch a video of any AIPAC meeting, where our politicians prostrate themselves to Israel, and promise the moon to those people. (That is, when they’re not banging their heads on the Wailing Wall, or lighting White House Menorahs..) American Sovereignty would sever us from those obligations, and place more money and government efforts for domestic projects.
Imagine my surprise…