Fire at Iranian nuclear site hit new centrifuge facility, analysts say
Source: AP
A fire and an explosion struck a building above Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility early Thursday, a site that U.S.-based analysts identified as a new centrifuge production plant.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran sought to downplay the fire, with spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi saying only that an “incident” had affected an “industrial shed” under construction. However, both Kamalvandi and Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi rushed after the fire to Natanz, which has been targeted in sabotage campaigns in the past.
Kamalvandi did not identify what damaged the building, though Natanz governor Ramazanali Ferdowsi said a fire struck the site, according to a report by the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
A photograph later released by the Iranian atomic energy agency showed a brick building with scorch marks and its roof apparently destroyed. It wasn’t clear if that was the “shed” to which Kamalvandi referred. Debris on the ground and a door that looked blown off its hinges suggested that an explosion accompanied the blaze.
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Something about this report makes me go "...Hmmmmmm..."
It must have been quite a good sized "industrial shed" fire to be be seen from space.
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