Iranian president calls 60% uranium enrichment ‘an answer to evil’

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service/AP)

Iran’s president has called Tehran’s decision to enrich uranium up to 60% after saboteurs attacked a nuclear site “an answer to your evilness”, linking the incident to ongoing talks in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

Israel, which has not commented on the attack, is suspected of carrying out the assault last weekend at the Natanz nuclear facility, part of a shadow war between the two countries.