When security gets physical: Mossad boss hints at less-than-subtle Stuxnet followup

When security gets physical: Mossad boss hints at less-than-subtle Stuxnet followup

In brief The outgoing head of Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad has suggested that Stuxnet wasn't the only spanner in the works his agency put into Iran's nuclear programme.


In an interview last week, Yossi Cohen intimated that Iran's uranium-enrichment centrifuges at the Natanz facility had been physically destroyed in the past year, requiring a rebuild. Although Cohen did not explicitly take credit for the sabotage, he made it clear Israel was bent on stopping Iran from building nuclear weapons.


It is said a marble base, on which the centrifuges were placed, was supplied with explosives hidden inside that were set off to ruin the factory. There were indeed reports of blasts at Iranian nuclear sites in 2020, which were attributed ..

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