Iranian nuclear facility suffers outage as US Defense secretary meets Israeli officials

An underground nuclear site in Iran suddenly and mysteriously lost power on Sunday after the facility started up ​advanced centrifuges that will allow it to enrich uranium faster as negotiations continue on the nuke accord that the US pulled out of in 2018, according to reports.

Iranian officials investigated the outage in Natanz as media outlets in Israel suggested the outage could be the result of cyberattacks, the Associated Press reported. The Natanz facility is the cornerstone of Iran’s uranium enrichment program and is monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN watchdog.