Iran opens presidential election registration after Ebrahim Raisi s death in a helicopter crash nbcnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
AEOI spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi in his hospital bed after falling into the Natanz crater.
Who knew a devastating attack on a nuclear plant could have its slapstick moment? Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), told reporters on Monday that the explosion in the Natanz plant created a big crater, so big that he had fallen into it and injured his head, back, leg, and arm.
And there was an unmistaken admiration on the part of some Iranians for the daring and execution of the attack. Like Fereydoun Abbasi, head of the Parliamentâs energy committee, who told Iran’s state TV: âThe enemyâs plot was very beautiful. Iâm looking at it from a scientific point of view. They thought about this and used their experts and planned the explosion so both the central power and the emergency power cable would be damaged.â Abbasi noted that the power plant for Natanz was between 120 and 150 feet underground â hence the crat
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Apr 13, 2021 1:20 PM ET
The operation raised the question of whether Israel was acting on its own to strike Iran and undermine American diplomacy as the Biden administration seeks to reconstitute a nuclear agreement. Or, alternatively, whether Israel was operating in concert with American interests, carrying out dirty work that would weaken Iran’s negotiating position in the talks.
White House and State Department officials said they had no idea whether the Iranians would show up in Vienna again on Wednesday, when the talks were scheduled to resume.
In Tehran, lawmakers asked Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to suspend the talks, saying that Iran should not be engaged in negotiations when it is under attack.
Israel May Have Destroyed Iranian Centrifuges Simply by Cutting Power theintercept.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theintercept.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.