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(Reuters) - Explosives were used to cut the electricity power lines to Iran's Fordow underground enrichment plant last month in an apparent attempt to sabotage Tehran's atomic advances, its nuclear energy chief said on Monday.
It was believed to be the first time Iran has mentioned the incident, which atomic energy organization chief Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani said took place on August 17.
He also told the annual member state gathering of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that "the same act" had been carried out on power lines to Iran's main enrichment plant near the central town of Natanz, without giving a date.
Iran says explosives cut power line to nuclear site | Reuters
Clearly, this shows the Obama administration's frequent claims that military would only delay Iran's nuclear weapons program for a year or two are not true. Destroy everything connected to the programs that is above ground and destroy the supporting infrastructure for facilities that are underground and the entire program is destroyed.
So why does the Obama administration continue to pretend that military action would only slightly delay Iran's nuclear weapons programs when this is clearly not the case?