Haaretz / November 30, 2020
JANUARY 12, 2010
Senior Iranian nuclear scientist Professor Massoud Ali Mohammadi assassinated in northern Tehran
SEPTEMBER 2010
A computer virus known as ‘Stuxnet’ deployed against the centrifuges at Natanz uranium enrichment facility
OCTOBER 29. 2010
The most senior scientist in the Iranian nuclear program at the time, Professor Majid Shahariari, and another nuclear scientist are killed in two separate assassinations in Tehran
JULY 23, 2011
A physics professor involved in the Iranian nuclear program is killed by gunmen on motorcycles in Tehran
JANUARY 11, 2012
A chemistry expert who also served as deputy director of the Natanz enrichment facility was killed in an explosion in Tehran
JANUARY 31, 2018
Israel broke into a warehouse where documents from the Iranian nuclear program were hidden on the outskirts of Tehran and stole tens of thousands of secret documents
JUNE 26, 2020
Explosions rock Parchin military base where Iran reportedly tested explosive triggers for nuclear weapons
JUNE 30, 2020
An explosion at Khojir, near Parchin, a base surrounded by underground tunnels believed by the West to have served as a large ammunitions depot. The base produces fuels to propel the Revolutionary Guards’ ballistic missile apparatus.
JULY 2, 2020
Explosion – attributed to Israel – at Natanz damages a structure containing advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment. It is estimated that Iran’s nuclear program is set back by one to two years.
JULY 19, 2020
Blast reported at a power plant in Isfahan, in central Iran
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Leader and key coordinator of Iran’s nuclear arms program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran