Iran’s uranium enrichment program is again working at full speed, following information that the country’s enrichment capabilities were strictly damaged by a malicious computer worm during the past few months, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In November 2010, Teheran suspended uranium enrichment at the Natanz nuclear ability and officials in the country’s atomic agency admitted that computer malfunctions were harmful to the country’s centrifuges.
Late last month, Iran’s envoy to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said during a news discussion in Moscow that the West should abandon its confrontational approach toward Teheran and should accept the fact that Iran will carry on enriching uranium even if its nuclear facilities are attacked. “No sanction resolution, threat, virus, or even military strike can avoid Iran from enriching uranium,” Soltanieh was quoted as saying.
Iran is now enriching uranium to a low level, but it is estimated the country has enough low enriched uranium it can enrich to a high grade to produce at least two atomic bombs. some reports have said that Stuxnet, the computer worm that wreaked havoc with the computers scheming Iran’s centrifuges, was developed by Israel, perhaps in collaboration with another country. On Monday, an Israeli expert said that Teheran’s recent launch of new satellites may point out the country has mastered the craft of building ballistic missiles with a range and correctness acceptable for carrying a nuclear warhead.
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