(Reuters) – Iran on Saturday appointed a man to arrest in connection with a recent explosion and power outage at its main nuclear plant in Natanz, while talks are taking place in Vienna to verify the rescue of the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and global forces. .
“Pray Karimi, that of this sabotageArray . . . was identified” through the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence, state television said. He said the suspect fled Iran before last Sunday’s explosion, that the Islamic Republic blamed his arch-enemy Israel.
Officials from the other parts of the Iran nuclear deal began an official assembly in Vienna, suggesting that the circular of talks that began thursday would end.
Television showed what a photograph of the alleged culprit was saying on a red card with the words “Interpol is wanted. “The card indicated his age at age 43.
“The procedures are being carried out for his arrest and return to the country by legal means,” the report adds.
State television also broadcast photographs in a row of what it said were centrifuges that had replaced the broken ones with the explosion at Natanz’s uranium enrichment plant.
He added that a “large number” of centrifuges whose enrichment activity had been disrupted by the explosion had returned to service, according to the report.
Iran and world powers are gathering in Vienna to try to save the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by Washington three years ago. The talks are potentially confusing due to Tehran’s resolve to boost uranium enrichment and what he called Israeli sabotage at the Natanz nuclear site.
Meanwhile, a source, echoing the position of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reiterated Iran’s call to eliminate all sanctions imposed by former President Donald Trump.
“In Tehran nothing more than the elimination of all sanctions will be accepted, adding similar sanctions to JCPOA (nuclear agreement), reprinted and renamed in The Trump Era,” the anonymous source told Press TV.
Israeli media cited unidentified intelligence resources saying that the country’s Mossad spy service had conducted Natanz’s sabotage operation. Israel, regarded as the only country in the Middle East to have a nuclear arsenal, has officially commented on the incident.
(Editing through Mark Heinrich and Christina Fincher)