N°14-02/06/2021 An explosion destroyed the electrical system that powers thousands of underground centrifuges at the Ahmadi Roshan nuclear enrichment facility in Iran.
This attack was attributed to Israel. American and Israeli officials told The New York Times that Israel had played a role. Israeli media cited intelligence sources as blaming the attack on Mossad, the Israeli spy agency. Tehran called the incident "nuclear terrorism".
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman sees this as an "act against humanity."
This attack may derail talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with Tehran that the Trump administration denounced in 2018 – an agreement that the United States could join, under certain conditions, according to President Joe Biden. In this context, the attack on Natanz could not be planned without US approval. Tel Aviv is doing America's "dirty work" in the region, allowing Washington to deny responsibility. This is not Israel's first attack on Natanz. Israel has been waging a covert war against Iran in years, launching hundreds of strikes on Iran-linked targets, including Lebanese Hezbollah, in neighboring Syria. According to the Wall Street Journal, which quotes US officials, Israel has attacked at least a dozen ships bound for Syria in the past two years. A former Mossad leader said: "Some actions must remain in the shade". Netanyahu does not want the 2015 nuclear deal, nor does he want the negotiations that are to resume; he is determined to prevent the Biden government from joining the JCPOA and lifting the sanctions against Iran. The threat of a major conflict with Iran may allow him to rally Israeli political forces in an emergency government.
It is important, too, in this context to recall the recent China-Iran strategic partnership agreement which may thwart US sanctions. Tehran describes the agreement as "strategic covering cooperation in trade, economy and transport." China secures key long-term energy imports that it sees as a matter of national security, with Iran being rich in oil and gas and the only energy-producing country capable of saying 'no' to the Americans; Beijing is thus continuing its Silk Road from East to West. Its large Eurasian and international structure such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) alone represents nearly half of the world population, strategic natural resources in large quantities (20% of world oil resources and nearly 40% of gas resources…) but also strategic trade routes, known as the “Silk Road”. The China-Russia-Iran axis plays a leading role against their Western rivals.
Moscow, Beijing and Tehran are considered by Washington as the main adversaries.
Throughout his campaign Biden has asserted that the US must once again become the main force imposing its point of view, by force if necessary. Multinationals are at the helm to ensure their dominance in international competition. Let us not allow the future to be written by the imperialist powers. All the events of the Mediterranean, Middle and Near East area must be seen and analyzed with reference to the nature of the confrontation within an imperialist system, with clashes and competitions which fuel each other. The redefinition of regional and global power relations keeps deepening. No continent escapes this bitter struggle with no holds barred.
We must understand the dangers of these imperialist struggles and wars added to the increasing strength of the military capabilities of most states. The alternative for the peoples, the workers, is to engage in the class struggle to destroy what is at the root of these clashes, namely the capitalist system and its monopolies. We must fight them by waging an uncompromising class struggle against capitalism in every country and in solidarity organize the anti-imperialist struggle.