DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top Iranian security spokesman says the cause of a fire at the Natanz nuclear site is known, but will not be made public at this time due to “security reasons.”
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The semiofficial Tasnim news agency quoted spokesman Keyvan Khosravi of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council as giving the comment.
Khosravi did not elaborate, but his comments show the concern felt at the highest levels in Iran over the incident early Thursday.
U.S.-based analysts have told The Associated Press the fire and apparent explosion at the site struck a new centrifuge assembly plant. Iranian officials had sought to downplay the blast, saying it struck an under-construction “shed.”
they need to come up with a good lie to bolster their ‘image’ in the world…..
but what ever they say, we will know it is NOT so, but just the opposite.