Alwaght- Iran reportedly has detained members of a network planning to sabotage the country's underground Fordow nuclear plant.
According to the official IRNA news agency, the plot involved an agent paid by Israel attempting to approach a person working with advanced IR-6 centrifuges at the plant.
The agent was provided with secure communications and paid in cash and cryptocurrencies to approach the plant employee using a contact at a cover company in Hong Kong as a mediator who was in reality an Israeli spy officer.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), however, was able to foil the plot, with IRNA saying the IRGC Nuclear Command was able to prevent one of the major sabotages of the country's nuclear facilities.
The sabotage attack was set to happen before Nowruz, which marks the end of the Iranian year on March 20.
Iran's nuclear program has been the subject of sabotage for more than a decade. Several Iranian scientists have also been assassinated by Israeli regime.
