A spokesman for a major nuclear-related organization in Iran has said that the fire at a nuclear plant in Iran on Thursday has caused a lot of devastation.

He said that there was a lot of damage due to the fire at this plant located near the city of Natanz in northern Iran. However, he did not give any details related to this to the press.

Natanz, located about 250 kilometers south of Tehran, the Iranian capital, is Iran's largest and best quality uranium extracting plant.

He said that the machinery destroyed by the fire would now be replaced with more advanced equipment. According to the latest information, the fire broke out in a workshop in the plant preparing centrifuge.

Some senior officials in Iran have described it as the result of a possible cyber-attack. However, he did not present any evidence in this regard. Centrifuge equipment is needed to produce uranium of superior quality, which can be used to make reactor fuel as well as nuclear weapons.

Iranian Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Bahroz Kamalwandi said on Sunday that security officials are not talking openly about the fire at Natanz due to security reasons. He said that the fire incident caused significant damage, but there were no casualties. There were also some other cases of fire and explosion in Iran in the last week.

The government of Iran had earlier reported that a fire broke out in an under construction part of the plant on Thursday. But American analysts said that the fire started in the workshop making centrifuges and they also released some pictures of the fire.

The fire incident at Natanz occurred six days after the explosion at the Parchin Military Complex in Iran. Regarding the blast, the Iran administration said that the explosion occurred due to gas leaks, but based on the satellite photos, the explosion was said by the analysts that the explosion occurred near the missile-making unit.

The Parchin Complex, adjacent to Tehran, is the same place that Western countries suspect that Iran conducted nuclear weapons tests at this place about a decade ago.

Iran claims that its nuclear program is a peaceful mission and has no intention of developing nuclear weapons.

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