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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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Mar. 10, 2021
During the last days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Middle East and the Muslim world were split almost neatly down the middle. The Gulf was joining hands with Israel in order to counter Iran, and Iran teamed up with Turkey, Pakistan and the rest of the Muslim world to counter the Arabs.
Some of this was also abetted by Trump’s policy of isolating Iran and deepening engagement with the Gulf. But things have changed very dramatically since then.
President Joe Biden has reconfigured the Middle East. He has pulled out of supporting the Gulf’s war in Yemen, called out Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and indicated his intent to re-enter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran.
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