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Iranian officials suspect that Israel was behind a series of blasts that rocked the Islamic Republic over the past month, The New York Times reported on July 22.
While officially the mysterious blasts hitting apartment buildings, oil facilities, and factories have been blamed on aging infrastructure, three Iranian officials, including a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, told the newspapers that they suspect these were acts of sabotage orchestrated by Israel.
A European official who deals with Iran also told the newspaper that he suspects Israel is involved in the recent wave of blasts.
Some locations where blasts were reported involved key infrastructure, such as a fire that killed one person over the weekend, while others, at apartments and a shoe factory, are sowing a feeling of chaos, according to the report.
Publicly, Iran has blamed the incidents on a range of causes, including gas leaks, garbage fires, and dilapidated infrastructure.
The Iranian officials who spoke to The New York Times said that the Islamic Republic was not formally accusing Israel, as that would put it in a position of needing to respond.
Just a day after the release of the report, a fire broke out at Isfahan University of Technology, with authorities blaming it on electricity outages.
The latest incidents began following the end of Israel’s 12-day war on Iran last month. During the war, Israel killed dozens of the Islamic Republic’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists. It also targeted key nuclear facilities and offensive capabilities, including missile factories. Iranian authorities have said about 1,000 people were killed.
Israeli officials declined to comment on The New York Time’s report. Last month, Mossad chief David Barnea said that Israel inflicted significant damage on Iran but indicated that Israel needs to continue its operations against the Islamic Republic.
Notably, in the weeks leading to the last war a similar series of blasts and fires was reported all over Iran, with the Islamic Republic declining to officially blame Israel.
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