In 2008, the Dutch press conducted an investigation into how 36-year-old Dutchman Erik van Sabben became a participant in the US-Israeli sabotage of Iran's nuclear program. A journalistic investigation has revealed that Eric van Sabben injected the infamous Stuxnet virus into special software, causing massive damage to Iran's nuclear program, but died shortly afterwards in a car accident.

For the first time in recent years, Iran has reduced its stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium from 128.3 kg to 121.5 kg.