ISRAEL'S RECKLESS NUCLEAR TERRORISM: DISARMAMENT THE ONLY SOLUTION

When Israel last Sunday attacked Iran’s premier nuclear plant, it is not nuclear rivalry. Rather, it is outright nuclear terrorism requiring worldwide condemnation. For, it could have caused a catastrophe killing a large number of people, while having a long term adverse impact on the environment.

- Ameen Izzadeen

Yet, there has been little condemnation from world powers, although media reports claimed that the explosion at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility was carried out by Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad. According to these reports, Mossad had got a bomb smuggled into the plant and used a remote devise to trigger the explosion. If these reports were accurate, questions arise whether Iran has taken adequate measures to safeguard its nuclear facilities. Besides, this was not the first attack on an Iranian nuclear facility. Iranian nuclear plants have regularly come under cyber-attacks from US and Israeli sources while several top Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated by Israeli agents. In 2007, the same Natanz plant suffered a stuxnest cyber-attack blamed on the US and Israeli sources. Last year, there was a major fire in the plant. Also last year, Israeli agents assassinated Iran’s top scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, believed to be the architect of Iran’s nuclear programme.

A bigger embarrassment for Iran is that the attack took place a day after President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated advanced centrifuges capable of enriching uranium faster at the Natanz site to mark Iran’s National Nuclear Technology Day.