One of the few times that Iran has departed from that script was after news broke of Stuxnet, a designed to cripple the country's nuclear fuel enrichment program.

In the fall of 2010, Iranian officials admitted of the country's computers, including some at important nuclear facilities.

Two months later, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had "succeeded in creating problems for a limited number of our centrifuges."

Western analysts, however, have said that they believe Stuxnet had seriously set back Iran's uranium enrichment efforts by destroying or damaging hundreds of centrifuges.

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