'' Blast in Iran - Israeli cyber attack ''

June 28, 2020

A Saudi newspaper quoted a world-renowned expert who claimed that there was a consensus among researchers about the mysterious explosion at the missile base,

The area hit by an explosion in Parchin (in black)

Saudi Arabia's English-language newspaper Arab News published a comprehensive interview with a senior Middle East analyst today, claiming that there is a consensus among the community that the explosion on Friday at the Parchin base near the Iranian capital Tehran is a sabotage.

"Although military accidents and the military industry do occur in Iran, there is agreement around the explosion in Parchin that this is a cyber attack against Israel," Dr. Theodore Krasik, an expert on the Washington Gulf Studies Institute, told the Saudi newspaper.

"The ongoing cyber war between Israel and Iran is nothing new. Iran's cyber warfare hit infrastructure in Israel in April, especially in water and sewerage facilities. Israel responded a month later and hit military and port industries. They attacked the port of Haid Raji with the aim of disabling it." , The expert expanded.

The mysterious blast that shook Iran's capital on the night of Thursday to Friday came from an area east of Tehran that analysts have hidden a subterranean tunnel system used to manufacture solid-fuel long-range missile propulsion - the AP reported yesterday, which even posted satellite imagery of the site before and after The blast.

On Thursday, around one o'clock in the night, a fierce explosion shook Tehran, sending a huge fireball into the sky, which was well-watched and documented on social media. The cause of the explosion was unknown for many hours. The next day, Tehran provided an official explanation for the incident, which was claimed by the Iranian government from an explosion in gas tanks, due to a leak.

The West doubts this explanation. On Iranian television, a reporter was facing what appeared to be large, charred gas balloons, but the television camera remained focused solely on "zoom in" on the balloons, and showed nothing else around the site. Iranian Defense Ministry spokesman David Abadi said the blast was caused by a gas leak and that no one was killed in the incident.

The site near Tehran before and after the blast

The charred soil at the site after the blast

It looks like a mysterious operation?

"Yes. It looks like it starts with a cyber attack and what is the power cut? Yesterday, just in case, the same unit that was responsible for the secret operation received an award from the IDF in advance. Just a reminder that a month and a half later, Bender Abbas still has traffic jams in the ships and there is still damage from the cyber attack that Israel took responsibility for. You can say it starts like this. Cyber attack before real attack is part of our reality. That is why I would not say that it is a vain imagination but a resemblance with a foot in reality. "