Iranian FM blames Israel for sabotage act in uranium enrichment plant

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday blamed Israel for the incident in central Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment site on Sunday, official news agency IRNA reported.

Israel "wants to take revenge on the Iranian people for their success in lifting the unjust sanctions, but we will not allow it", Zarif said in a meeting of the Iranian parliament's national security commission.

In response to the voice asking Iran's government to halt the Vienna talks on Iran nuclear deal after the accident, Zarif called on Iranian elites and population not to "fall in a trap" set up by Israel.

According to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran earlier on Sunday, an accident took place in a part of the electricity distribution network of the Natanz nuclear facility in the morning.

Zarif said that the centrifuges damaged at the Natanz facility were the first generation, and will be replaced with more advanced devices, which will strengthen Iran's position in the negotiations aiming to have U.S. sanctions against Iran lifted.

Iran, Zarif warned, will not allow Israel to prevent the sanctions from being lifted, and will "take revenge on" Israel for the incident in Natanz.