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Recent reports said that Stuxnet may have destroyed one thousand of Iran's centrifuges, maybe more. The manipulations of centrifuges' rotation speeds are so subtle and get hidden by manipulating the gauge readouts that it may be very difficult if not impossible to discover the damage before it is too late. Stuxnets also reduces the overall effectivenerss of the extraction process. This assessment is boosted by figures showing that Iran needs to invest more and more ressources in order to gain less and lesser of the end product.

Three suspects, in this order: Israel, USA, China. The latter to prevent a war in the region that may disrupt oil supplies for China as well, the needed insider knowledge the Chinese could have gained via their own espionage and cyberwar programs against Wetsern indusrties. China is the top player in the world, regarding cyber espionage. The majority of all global hacker attacks today, have their origin in China.