The New York Times reported Wednesday that Iran has made good on its promise to rebuild its main nuclear fuel enrichment facility destroyed by an explosion in July, an act Iranian officials ascribed to an act of "sabotage."
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The newspaper used satellite imagery to trace what appeared to be excavation and construction work at a mountain range near Natanz.
It spotted piles of excavation spoil at a location south of the main facility along with two tunnel entrances, one on each side of the ridge. The space between the two tunnels appeared to be enough to host the facility that was rocked by the explosion.
The July blast ripped through a structure used to assemble centrifuges that are utilized to enrich uranium for both peaceful and military purposes.
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The Natanz explosion, attributed to Israel by foreign media outlets, was part of a series of mysterious blasts and fires that rocked the Islamic republic at the time.
Recently, Iran's nuclear ambitions suffered another setback as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the regime's top nuclear scientist and a key architect of its nuclear weapons project, was assassinated near Tehran in another act attributed to Israel.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
