Iran for the first time admitted on Monday that a computer virus attack did indeed take place at its nuclear facility as reported, it has emerged
Disclosing this at a news conference in the capital Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said the virus had affected the working of the centrifuges used for Uranium enrichment.
Ahmedinejad though said that the Stuxnet virus, allegedly created by Tehran's rivals, had only a limited effect.
"They succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges with the software they had installed in electronic parts.Our specialists stopped that and they will not be able to do it again," the Iranian President said.
Earlier the Islamic Republic had remained in denial regarding the incident.
The Iranian leader's disclosures come even as two leading nuclear scientists were attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants. One of the scientists Majid Shahriari succumbed to injuries while the second one, Fereydoon Abbasi has been admitted to hospital.
According to Ahmedinejad, the scientists were victims of a Western and Israeli plot.
Last week the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran was forced to temporarily halt its Uranium enrichment program in early November.
According to Cyber experts, the worm had been configured to damage centrifuges. They also said that its complex nature indicated the involvement of a "nation state" in the affair.
Tehran has often cited the incident as the clearest instance yet of an electronic war being waged against the country.
Despite Tehran's claims over the peaceful nature of its nuclear program, the US-led West believes the Shia nation is secretly pursuing a mission to build a nuclear weapon.
The Islamic Republic has all along maintained that it is well within its rights as a member of Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) to seek nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
In June, the UN Security Council(UNSC) imposed further punitive sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its continued nuclear defiance.
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