Special to WorldTribune.com

LONDON — Western intelligence agencies have determined that Iran
sustained a huge blow when a leading nuclear facility was bombed on Nov. 28.

Western intelligence sources said Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at
Isfahan was severely damaged by an explosion. They said the explosion was
believed to have destroyed Isfahan’s large conversion center as well as
stored uranium.

“This has struck terror in the hearts of Iranian nuclear chiefs,” an
intelligence source said.

The sources said the explosion was the work of a “sophisticated bombing squad” that penetrated Isfahan’s formidable defenses. Citing analysis of Western satellite imagery, they said the explosion rocked Iran’s largest city with smoke and debris.

This marked the second explosion at a major Iranian weapons facility in less than a month, Middle East Newsline reported. On Nov. 12, a base of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was destroyed in a mysterious explosion, which also killed the head of the nation’s ballistic missile program, Maj. Gen. Hassan Moghaddam. The
sources said the explosion was the result of a bombing rather than an accident as IRGC claimed.

Over the last month, Iran has come under intensified sabotage of its
strategic facilities. The sources said the bombing of the uranium facility
at Isfahan demonstrated that Iran’s maximum-security nuclear and missile
centers were vulnerable to attack.

“There are countries who impose economic sanctions and there are
countries who act in other ways in dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat,”
Israeli Intelligence Affairs Minister Dan Meridor said.

The Teheran regime has not provided a clear explanation of the bombing
in Isfahan. At first, Isfahan Gov. Ali Reza Zaker said the explosion stemmed
from a military exercise in the city. Hours later, the government denied
that an explosion took place.

  Dan Meridor, Gov. Ali Reza Zaker, Iranian nuke facility in Isfahan said attacked by ‘sophisticated bombing squad’, Isfahan, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Maj. Gen. Hassan Moghaddam