Iran officially accused Israel of carrying out the attack on the Natanz nuclear facility, and pledged revenge, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the conflict with Iran and its nuclear project as a very huge task.

Iranian state television quoted Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif as saying today, Monday, that Israel is responsible for what he described as the sabotage act that took place yesterday at the Natanz nuclear facility, and that it will retaliate.

"The Zionists want to take revenge on the Iranian people for the successes they achieved in the path of lifting the unjust embargo," Zarif said. "But we will not allow that, and we will take revenge on the Zionists for their practices."

In statements published by the Iranian News Agency, the Iranian Foreign Minister said that the Natanz nuclear facility today is stronger than before, adding that "if the enemy imagines that we have weakened in the nuclear negotiations, what will happen is that this cowardly act will strengthen our position in the negotiations."

For its part, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that what happened in Natanz was nuclear terrorism on Iranian soil, and that Tehran reserves the right to respond within the framework of international laws.

The ministry added that Iran will respond to Israel at the appropriate time and place, considering that the Natanz incident aims to disrupt the course of the Vienna negotiations, referring to the ongoing talks seeking to revive the nuclear agreement concluded between Iran and the major powers in 2015.

She added that if the aim of the attack on the Natanz facility was to push back Iran's nuclear industries, the attack was not successful.

The Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister announced yesterday, Sunday, hours after an accident at the Natanz facility, which is located underground, 400 km south of Tehran, that his country will continue to enrich uranium by 20%.

Netanyahu's statements

In statements after the attack that occurred at dawn yesterday on the Natanz facility, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the conflict with Iran, its proxies and its nuclear project is a very huge task.

Netanyahu added that the status quo today is not necessarily the status that will exist tomorrow, as he put it.

He pointed out that it is very difficult to explain what Israel has achieved after it transformed from a state of disability to a regional and global power, as he described it.

And Israeli analyzes reported that the Natanz facility in Isfahan was severely damaged after it was exposed, on Sunday, to what is believed to be a cyber attack, which Israeli media said was carried out by the Mossad (the Israeli external intelligence service).

The Israeli public radio quoted intelligence sources as saying that the Mossad carried out an electronic attack on the Natanz facility, and caused great damage, after Tehran announced that there had been a malfunction in the facility's electrical distribution network.

According to the Israeli Radio, according to its sources, it is estimated that the damage to the Natanz facility is large and touched the centrifuges, indicating that the damage will undermine Iran's capabilities to enrich uranium.

The director of the Al-Jazeera office in Palestine, Walid Al-Omari, reported yesterday that the correspondent of the "13 Israeli" channel for military and security affairs said that there may have been a bomb planted inside the facility that destroyed it, or caused great damage to it.

Nuclear terrorism

Shortly after the attack on Natanz, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said that what happened in the facility was a "nuclear terrorist act," and called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to confront these measures, threatening that his country reserves the right to respond to this operation, its perpetrators and those behind it. .

Salehi added that Tehran will continue its work to expand its nuclear industry and lift unjust sanctions, noting that this process shows the failure of those who oppose the nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

The Iranian Fars News Agency website quoted Malik Shariati, a spokesman for the Energy Committee in the Iranian Parliament, as saying on Twitter, "It is highly suspected that this incident - which coincided with the National Day for Nuclear Technology and with Iran's efforts to force Westerners to cancel sanctions - is an act of sabotage and a breach. ".

Shariati added that they are following up the dimensions and details of the case and will announce the results of that after reaching a final outcome.

A spokesman for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Behrouz Kamalondi - told Fars News Agency - that the electricity distribution network at the "Natanz" site had an accident on Sunday.