Inspectors from the UN’s atomic watchdog have asserted Iran has started constructing an underground centrifuge assembly plant after its previous one exploded in what Tehran called a sabotage attack over the summer, the agency’s head told The Associated Press.
In a series of explosions this July, many Iranian strategic sites were demolished, plus the nuclear enrichment facilities.
Iran had impeach the United States and Israel of secretly destroying the sites and had vowed action if sabotage was confirmed.
Days later, Iran confirmed that it would build a new, more secure nuclear site in the mountains.
Following the July explosion at the Natanz nuclear site, Tehran said it would build a new, more secure, structure in the mountains around the area.
Satellite images of Natanz analysed by experts have yet to show any obvious signs of construction at the site in Iran’s central Isfahan province.
The head of Iran’s nuclear program, Ali Akbar Salehi, said on state television last month that the destroyed plant would be replaced by one “in the heart of the mountains around Natanz.”