{"id":411683,"date":"2021-04-11T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T23:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=411683"},"modified":"2021-04-11T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T23:28:23","slug":"israel-launches-cyberattack-causing-severe-damage-to-irans-nuclear-program-as-biden-seeks-new-deal-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-launches-cyberattack-causing-severe-damage-to-irans-nuclear-program-as-biden-seeks-new-deal-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Launches Cyberattack Causing \u2018Severe Damage\u2019 To Iran\u2019s Nuclear Program As Biden Seeks New Deal: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-launches-cyberattack-causing-severe-damage-to-irans-nuclear-program-as-biden-seeks-new-deal-reports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=411683&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1405.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Israel reportedly launched a cyberattack against Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility early on Sunday, which have severely crippled the nation\u2019s enrichment program.<\/p>\n<p>The Times of Israel reported that unidentified sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/western-officials-say-mossad-behind-natanz-power-cut-iran-calls-it-terrorism\/\">told<\/a> Hebrew media outlets that Israel\u2019s Mossad security service was responsible for the strike, while the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-iran-358384f03b1ef6b65f4264bf9a59a458\">noted<\/a> that news organizations inside Israel \u201cnearly uniformly reported a devastating cyberattack orchestrated by the country caused the blackout.\u201d One local media station said the attacked caused \u201csevere damage at the heart of Iran\u2019s enrichment program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cyberattack, which some Iranian experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/11\/world\/middleeast\/iran-nuclear-natanz.html\">claimed<\/a> could not have been behind the power outage, came only a day after Iranian officials bragged about the nation\u2019s new centrifuges, which expedite the process needed to create nuclear weapons, during Iran\u2019s National Nuclear Technology Day. Iranian officials claimed that the cyberattack was an act of \u201cnuclear terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the early hours of Sunday morning, the underground Natanz facility suffered an electrical disruption in what was widely speculated to be an Israeli cyberattack,\u201d The Times of Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/western-officials-say-mossad-behind-natanz-power-cut-iran-calls-it-terrorism\/\">reported<\/a>.&nbsp;\u201cThe disruption at Natanz appears to have been designed to counter Iran\u2019s efforts to raise pressure on the United States by amassing greater quantities of uranium and enriching it to higher levels as the two sides negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amos Yadlin, the former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of Military Intelligence, said on Sunday that he was concerned about Iran\u2019s nuclear program, noting that if the cyberattack hit the facilities backup power systems, it could take Iran months to recover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if somebody really hit all 6,000 centrifuges \u2014 old and new \u2014 that\u2019s an extraordinary achievement,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/defense-experts-voice-fears-over-iranian-nuclear-program-after-natanz-power-cut\/\">said<\/a> Yadlin. Local media said that U.S. officials \u201cexpressed satisfaction with the damage to the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, nuclear weapons expert Dr. Peter Vincent Pry&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-%E2%80%93-expert-iran-already-has-nuclear-ryan-saavedra\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire that he believes that Iran already has nuclear weapons based on numerous indicators from the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"30\">\n<p><em>\u201cEven the IAEA in their 2011 report, if people would read it, found things that were so alarming \u2026 there\u2019s a virtual smoking gun that Iran already has the bomb,\u201d Pry said. \u201cThe IAEA was reporting it found prior to 2003 that Iran was already manufacturing bridge wire detonators, neutron initiators, they had done an implosion test already, they had done 14 different designs correct for a nuclear warhead to see if they could fit the psychics package for a nuclear warhead into the reentry vehicle for the Shahab-3 high explosive warhead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pry said it was blatantly obvious that Iran most likely already has nuclear weapons, saying that \u201canyone with half a brain\u201d could see it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBecause when we were doing things like that back in the Manhattan project days when we were working with 1930s and 1940s aero technology,\u201d Pry continued. \u201cWhen the United States was doing implosion tests and building bridge wire detonators, and neutron initiators, we were within 3-6 months of getting the bomb.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s just implausible that Iran before 2003 was at that stage and then never crossed the finish line,\u201d Pry concluded.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A piece published last month at National Review by Pry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/03\/iran-probably-already-has-the-bomb-heres-what-to-do-about-it\/\">former CIA director James Woolsey<\/a>, and other top experts warned last month that American politicians are being \u201cmisled by the intelligence and defense communities,\u201d which they say are \u201care grossly underestimating the nuclear threat from&nbsp;Iran.\u201d The experts said that they believe Iran already has nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel reportedly launched a cyberattack against Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility early on Sunday, which have severely crippled the nation\u2019s enrichment program.The Times of Israel reported that unidentified sources told Hebrew &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312006,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1405.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Israel Launches Cyberattack Causing \u2018Severe Damage\u2019 To Iran\u2019s Nuclear Program As Biden Seeks New Deal: Reports","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1405.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Israel Launches Cyberattack Causing \u2018Severe Damage\u2019 To Iran\u2019s Nuclear Program As Biden Seeks New Deal: Reports","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}