Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency believe the brief stoppage of centrifuges at the Natanz uranium-enrichment site, which started on November 16, was related to the infection of the facility’s control systems by the Stuxnet computer worm, according to diplomats briefed on the report.
The development, said officials with knowledge of the nuclear program, has compounded problems Iran is already facing in running and scaling up the centrifuge cascades at the site in central Iran…
On Tuesday, the head of the Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, denied that his country’s nuclear program had been significantly harmed by the Stuxnet computer worm. “Fortunately the nuclear Stuxnet virus has faced a dead end,” he told Iran state media.
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