Iranian Outlets Warn After Speculations on Natanz:

Don’t Cross Iran’s Red Lines!

Date: 04 July 2020 - 22:05

News ID: ۸۰۲۵۴

TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- A website close to the Iran’s national security apparatus said on Saturday media reports citing Israel for an alleged cyber attack on Natanz nuclear facility would mean that the occupying regime could be the target of retaliation.
The article on Nour News, a website believed to be run by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the international community should be more concerned about cyber sabotage attempts targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities as they could lead to nuclear leaks with environmental ramifications of unknown magnitude.
It said despite Israel’s policy of keeping silent on sabotage acts targeting Iran’s nuclear sites, such moves are ultimately attributed to the Zionist regime given its long records of hostility towards Iran and its peaceful nuclear activities.
"The sensitivity and significance of this issue becomes obvious when one considers the nuclear nature of the Zionist regime and the proven vulnerability of Israel in facing counter actions,” read a part of the article.
Iranian authorities have determined the cause of the incident at Natanz on Thursday which led to fire at an open section of the facility. However, they have promised to speak about the incident in details at a more convenient time in future.
Security sources have said Iran would retaliate if it became clear that Israel, or the United States, were behind any attempt targeting Iran’s nuclear sites.
The article by Nour News said Israel should await serious

consequences if it crossed Iran’s "red lines”, adding the regime would not be able to show off its sabotage acts against Iran through fantasy television series like "Tehran” which is currently being aired in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Iran will retaliate against any side that carries out cyber attacks on its nuclear sites, the head of civilian defense said Friday.
The Natanz uranium-enrichment site is one of several Iranian facilities monitored by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran’s top security body said on Friday the cause of the "incident” at the nuclear site had been determined, but "due to security considerations” it would be announced at a convenient time.
"Responding to cyber attacks is part of the country’s defense might. If it is proven that our country has been targeted by a cyber attack, we will respond,” civil defense chief Gholamreza Jalali said.
An article issued on Thursday by state news agency IRNA addressed what it called the possibility of sabotage by enemies such as Israel and the United States.
"So far Iran has tried to prevent intensifying crises and the formation of unpredictable conditions and situations,” IRNA said. "But the crossing of red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran by hostile countries, especially the Zionist regime and the U.S., means that strategy ... should be revised.”
In 2010, the Stuxnet computer virus, which is widely believed to have been developed by the United States and the Zionist regime, was discovered after it was used to attack the Natanz facility.
The IAEA said on Friday the location of the fire did not contain nuclear materials, and that none of its inspectors was present at the time.
"The Agency has been in contact with relevant Iranian authorities to confirm there will be no impact on its safeguards verification activities, which are expected to continue as before,” an IAEA statement said, adding that Iran had told it the cause of the fire was not yet known.