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A top Iranian official has revealed that saboteurs have struck at the country's newest and most sensitive nuclear facility by blowing up its power supply cables. Fereydoun Abbasi, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation, disclosed the incident during a speech in Vienna to the 155 members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). According to the Telegraph, he noted that IAEA inspectors visited Fordow the day after the explosion and insinuated that they might have been responsible. "During the early hours of next morning, an Agency inspector requested to conduct an unannounced inspection," the paper quoted Abbasi, as saying. "Does this visit have any connection to that detonation?. Who, other than the IAEA inspectors, can have access to the complex in such a short term to report and record failures?" he added. The paper quoted Abbasi as saying, 'terrorists and saboteurs might have intruded the Agency and might be making decisions covertly' According to the paper, the Fordow enrichment plant, buried beneath about 260 feet of rock and earth, was built in secret from 2006 onwards. But Western intelligence discovered its construction, allowing the US to reveal the installation's existence in 2009. Fordow is Iran 's most valuable plant because its location in a hollowed out mountainside could render it immune to air attack, the paper said.

'Saboteurs' hit Iran's nuke facility