The explosions didn’t all go unexplained. Kurdish rebels claimed responsibility for the ones at Dogubayazit and Tabriz, and the Iranian news agency, IRNA, attributed the Kharg Island fire to high-pressure buildup in a central boiler.8 The explosion at Pardis was blamed on a leak of ethane that ignited after workers began welding a pipeline. But what if one or more of the explosions had actually been caused by Stuxnet?

