Le Figaro: Israel behind attacks in Iran

According to Le Figaro, Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, is responsible for incidents in Iran such as the disappearance or death of its scientists and the Stuxnet worm which recently targeted Iranian computer systems.

The Stuxnet worm is a malware designed to infect computers using Siemens Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) — a control system favored by industries that manage water supplies, oil rigs, and power plants.

Iranian experts say the worm may have been created by a state-sponsored organization in the United States or Israel to target specific control software used in Iran’s industrial sector, including the Bushehr plant — the country’s first nuclear power plant.

On July 12, Iranian nuclear physics scientist Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed in a remote-controlled bomb attack in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Iranian security officials believe that the equipment and bomb system used in the attack were related to a number of foreign intelligence agencies, particularly Israel’s Mossad.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said following the incident that “primary investigations into the assassination revealed signs of the involvement of Israel, the US and their allies in Iran.”

Le Figaro also claimed that a recent explosion at the Imam Ali military base in Luristan Province was another part of the shadow war Tel Aviv is waging against Iran to thwart the country’s nuclear plans.

This is while Iranian officials maintain that the October 12 explosion at the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’s (IRGC) Imam Ali base outside Khorramabad, which killed 18 soldiers and wounded 14 others, was caused by a fire at the base that spread to the ammunitions store.

Israel — believed to be the sole possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East — has repeatedly voiced its determination to stop Iran’s nuclear program, even through military action.

Israel and its Western allies accuse Iran of following a military nuclear program and Tel Aviv has repeatedly threatened Tehran with an attack on its nuclear facilities.

Tehran refutes the allegations, arguing that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it has a right to the peaceful applications of nuclear technology.