"On Friday August 17, 2012, power lines running from the city of Qom to Fordow facility were cut using explosives. It should be reminded that power outage is a way of damaging centrifuge machines. In the early hours of the following day, (IAEA) inspectors demanded a snap inspection of the facility," Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi said, addressing an IAEA meeting in Vienna on Monday.
"Isn't there any connection between the visit and the blast? Who else could have quick access to the facility other than IAEA inspectors to register and report dysfunctions?" he asked.
"In another case, a similar incident happened along the road to Natanz facility. Due to the transparency of our peaceful nuclear (energy) program and the IAEA's supervision, we have tried to purchase our required articles from the world markets. IAEA does not help us with the lifting of sanctions. Perhaps they have no duty in this regard. However, when the Stuxnet virus is used (by Iran's enemies) … or explosives are stashed in the devices, they give truthful and honest reports on the number of centrifuge machines, exact mass of the uranium … and everything else which is visible in the vicinity," Abbasi said.
He went on to warn the UN nuclear watchdog against the infiltration of "terrorists and saboteurs,", and added, "We must make director-general of IAEA and his colleagues aware of this issue and give the necessary warning (to them)."
The official said those who planned to strike Iran's nuclear facilities understood through IAEA reports that they had failed.
The US and Israel have made repeated attempts in the last several years to damage Iran's nuclear and industrial sites through web infiltration and computer malwares.
Computers of some Iranian nuclear sites were attacked by the Stuxnet virus, the first known computer worm discovered in 2010 to target industrial controls.
In addition to viruses, enemies of Iran tried to hinder Iran's nuclear progress through assassination of the country's elites and nuclear scientists.
Western spy agencies, collaborated by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), have assassinated several Iranian scientists in the last three years.
In the fifth attack of its kind in two years, terrorists killed a 32-year-old Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, and his driver on January 11.
The blast took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.
The assassination method used in the bombing was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani - who is now the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization - and his colleague Majid Shahriari. While Abbasi Davani survived the attack, Shahriari was martyred.
Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated through the same method on 23 July 2011.
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The officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should be aware and vigilant against the intentions and measures adopted by saboteurs and terrorists hired by certain countries to affect the Agency's reports on other states, a senior Iranian nuclear official warned.
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