A member of an influential Iranian security framework said Friday that he had ruled out drone or missile strikes as the cause of an incident at a nuclear power plant this month.
The incident occurred in a warehouse under structure at the Natanz nuclear compound in central Iran on July 2, but there were no casualties or radioactive contamination, according to Iran’s nuclear agency.
“What is certain is that, in our opinion, a drone, a missile, a bomb or a rocket is the case,” the news firm ISNA said, citing Mojtaba Zolnour, head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign affairs.
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“There are lines of an explosion of internal elements (the building) but as the investigations continue, I will reveal the details,” he added.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced on July 3 that the “cause of the accident” in Natanz had been “accurately determined” and refused to disclose the details, presenting safety reasons.
State news firm IRNA then issued an editorial warning to Iran’s main enemies opposed to hostile actions.
He said Israeli social media accounts had claimed that Israel was the incident, without identifying the accounts.
Figure 6. The construction of ICAC, as it gave the impression on this July 5, 2020 Planet Labs satellite symbol released via CNN and AP, which shows the location of an imaginable crater and the approximate dominance of the explosion and damage caused by the explosion and fire. (Screenshot: Report of the Institute of International Science and Security).