More Secret Nuclear Sites Discovered in Iran
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Thu, November 29, 2012
Just as the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report increased alarm about Iran’s illicit nuclear program, now comes word that the Islamic regime has created even more secret nuclear sites.
The IAEA report indicated that not only has Iran completed installation of 2,784 centrifuges at Fordow, the previous secret site deep in a mountain believed to be immune to air strikes, but also could within days increase output of highly enriched uranium to the 20-percent level, well on the way to nuclear weapons.
Iran has started to feed uranium hexafluoride gas into four new cascades, increasing the number of centrifuges at Fordow from 700 to 1,400, therefore doubling its output of highly enriched uranium and cutting the time needed for having enough high-enriched material for one nuclear bomb. The regime already has enough low-enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs if further enriched.
However, according to a source within the engineering department of the Revolutionary Guards, the regime is working on its nuclear bomb program from several secret sites unknown to the world.
One such site, the source said, is in the outskirts of the small city of Shahrokhabad in Kerman Province.
Kerman, known for its deposits of copper and coal, also has uranium ore deposits, the source said, and is as high a quality as the deposits at Gachin near the city of Bandar Abbas, which the regime has long used for its yellow cake supply. The regime, with its need for yellow cake, not only has explored various sites within Iran but as far away as Venezuela and Bolivia. Both of those countries have close ties with Iran, and both have vast uranium deposits.
The new site, under the control of the Revolutionary Guards, is code-named “Fateh1.” Fateh in Farsi means victorious. The site’s official name is the Martyred Bahonar Training center, but it is used as a front for regime’s nuclear activity. A six foot wall surrounds the site, on top of it are iron bars and on top of them barbed wires.
According to the source, the uranium ore at the new site is processed into yellow cake then converted to uranium hexafluoride, which is then fed into centrifuges to produce enriched uranium.
It is unclear at this time if the conversion of the yellow cake into uranium hexafluoride is done at the new site or sent to the Isfahan uranium conversion facility, but the source said activities at the site point to underground facilities within the site, covered with dirt or a special rolled asphalt to camouflage its activities from satellites. This is similar to what the regime has done at other sites – enriching uranium at underground facilities.
The source added that the site, surrounded by security towers and barbed wire, is under heavy Revolutionary Guard control, with checks at the entrance and security posts within the facility.
The Guard commander of this operation, according to the source, is Col. Habibollah Sanatgar, who reports directly to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, headed by Fereydon Abbasi, though all coordination is under the supervision of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, the father of Iran’s nuclear bomb program. The source added that another facility not far from the site is involved in plutonium work.
Peter Vincent Pry, formerly with the CIA and now executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board, regards the discovery of another Iranian underground nuclear site as ominous.
“Reliable sources in recent months appear to have disclosed two more previously unknown facilities serving Iran’s nuclear program,” Pry said. “Moreover, the sources have provided some credible evidence that at least one of these facilities is actively engaged in nuclear weaponization. If any of these allegations is even partially true, the whole timeline for Iran developing a nuclear weapon must be recalculated. The advent of a nuclear-armed Iran is much nearer than assumed by the Obama administration.”
Pry warned that the United States cannot afford to let Iran, the leading sponsor of international terrorism, develop even a single nuclear weapon.
“The congressional EMP Commission warned that Iran could launch a nuclear-armed short-range missile off a ship to inflict an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) catastrophe on the United States using just a single warhead,” Pry cautioned. “The EMP attack would collapse the national electric grid and all the critical infrastructures that support modern civilization and the lives of 300 million Americans. Iran has practiced making exactly such a ship-launched EMP attack and has openly written about making an EMP attack to eliminate the United States.”
Exclusive reports by WND on Oct. 8 and Nov. 1 revealed that Iran is operating another nuclear site at which scientists are testing a neutron detonator and implosion system for a nuclear bomb as well as on a nuclear warhead design and enrichment to weaponization levels.
The 5+1 group has requested new talks with Iran over the nuclear impasse. The Islamic regime has hinted about freezing nuclear enrichment to the 20-percent level in exchange for removal of all sanctions, guarantees on providing the country with high-enriched uranium and acceptance of the regime’s full rights to nuclear energy. Such a deal would allow the country’s thousands of centrifuges to continue to enrich to the 5-percent level.
Regardless of the outcome of any further negotiations, the source said, the Islamic regime, with work at many secret sites, is very close to obtaining the bomb.
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and author of the award winning book “A Time to Betray” (Simon & Schuster, 2010). He serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and the advisory board of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI).
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November 29, 2012 at 6:19 PM
Just a heads up about reports Im hearing. There has been an apparent ‘Nuclear Event’ today in Iran, now I dont know if its bullshit but this is one report –
UNCONFIRMED: ”Iranian nuclear officials are being secretive about the nature of an incident in the Iranian Isfahan nuclear plant that sent many staff members to nearby hospital emergency rooms Wednesday. The head of Iran’s Medical Emergency Agency told reporters that staff members of an Isfahan Nuclear plant “have observed some symptoms.” He stressed that all medical emergency units in Iran should be ready to “confront nuclear incidents.” “Those who have been around UCF Isfahan, have shown symptoms and are receiving treatment,” said Gholamreza Masoumi to Iranian state-run news agencies. He did not mention a specific time for the incident nor did he volunteer any details about the nature of it. “We have not yet had any incident outside nuclear designated areas,” he said. Masoumi said that the agency has been training the medical emergency unit staff on providing treatment for nuclear incidents. Masoumi told Mehr news agency that recently the Iranian government has formed a “Nuclear Emergency” task force to provide services that would be needed following nuclear incidents. Furthermore, Nuclear Emergency centers in provinces where nuclear sites are located will receive a boost. Masoumi stressed that there has never been an incident of nuclear leakage at any Iranian nuclear plant. Radio Free Europe reported that following the publication of this incident, Mehr news removed the article from its website, however, on June 28, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Freidoon Abbasi, tried to play down the incident. “Any kind of incident may occur in any plant,” said Abbasi to Iranian Fars News. “However it does not mean that such events lead to spread of radioactive material.”
November 29, 2012 at 6:59 PM
well i have just been told that iran is only 6weeks away from a plutonium bomb
November 29, 2012 at 7:32 PM
Basically, who waits goes back to the Middle Ages.
Who shoots an EMP first stays in the 21st century.
No need to be a master of game theory to understand this.
Now we are going to see if people who think of themselves as the elites of Western civilization are the most dreadful losers in the history of mankind, or the most decisive people since Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
November 29, 2012 at 8:47 PM
This is an online article by the German newspaper “Die Welt”
from November 28th, 2012
Translation by me.
Link: http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article111628145/Iran-simuliert-Atomwaffen-Sprengkraft-am-Computer.html
IRAN SIMULATES NUCLEAR-WEAPONS EXPLOSIVE POWER
A GRACPHIC FROM IRAN, WHICH SHOWS THE EXPLOSIVE POWER OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS APPEARED ON THE INTERNET.
IT IS ABOUT A BOMB THREE TIMES AS DEVASTATING AS THE HIROSHIMA BOMB.
Iran simulates apparently in computer tests an atomic weopon with an explosive power, three times higher then the Hiroshima bomb.
The news agency AP has been given by a land , which has a critical attidude towars the Iranian nuclear program, an according diagram.
According to a senior diplomat, it is one of several diagrams, which the IAEA had received. The IAEA did not want to make a statement concerning the document.
BELL CURVE WITH HIGH EXPLOSIVE POWER
The organisation situated in Vienna had previous year reported without further detalis, that it was in posession of several such graphics, with which Iran calculates the nuclear explosive power of poptential weapons.
On the diagram, which AP now has received, one can see a bell curve, whcih shows the maximum explosive power of 50 kilotons at two microseconds.
The nuclear bomb, which has been dropped by the USA on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, had an explosive power of 15 Kilotons. Modern nuclear weapons achieve a potential hundredfold higher.
EXPERT THINKS GRAPHIC IS AUTHENTIC
The graphic seems authentic, said David Albright from the renowned US-institute ISIS.
However the purpose of the graphic rather seems to be, ‘to unterstand the process’.
The calculated explosive power seems too high. North Korea had in her first nuclear weapons test achieved only an explosive power of a few kilotons.
The graphic, which carries the number five, was however apperantly part of a series, which could include lower calculations. The diagram could have been produced in 2008 or 2009. An IAEA-spokeswoman, did not want to make statements about the document, which has been given to AP by a land, which did not want to be named.
IRAN DENIES BUILDING OF AN ATOMIC BOMB
Iran denies, to work on an atomic bomb. The nuclear program of the country aimed only for civilian purposes. The USA and Israel and other countries mistrust however this statement. According to IAEA-diplomats the USA and Israel have been supposed to have released the diagrams in the preivious year to force the international community into action. Experts fear an attack on the Iranian nuclear installations.
The IAEA suspects Iran, to plan a nuclear weapons test on the test area in Parchin.
An inspection of the installation was refused by Iran.
November 29, 2012 at 8:51 PM
Notice the wording in the end of the article.
It does not say, that there have been some things going on in Parchin and that Iran does clear the traces of their experiments.
But they suspect Iran, to PLAN a nuclear weapons test.
November 29, 2012 at 11:29 PM
so this really explains the events of the last 3 weeks,the clock really is ticking,you wonder whether it will be this week,or will the wait till jan,logic says its now..i hope its America that strikes,and not israel
November 30, 2012 at 11:33 AM
I don’t know, what to make of all this news.
But one thing is sure: The whole thing seems to be speeding up a lot.
On the part of the Iranians I think, the situation in Syria puts pressure on them to speed up their race towards the bomb.
The fall of Syria will not only take their ally out, but it will create whole new possibilities. Look at a map and you understand.
I often wondered how the politicans in Washington could be so stupid. Knowing that Iran consist only of 60% Persians and 40% of other ethnic groups I did not unterstand why the US did not threaten the mullahs to fan the flames of sepparatist movements thus inciting a civil war in Iran.
16% of the Iranians are Kurds and 10% are Azeris.
Now I don’t know about the Azeris but the Kurds shure as hell want their own independent state.
The Kurdish nationalist movement goes back well before 1900.
The PKK terrorists are a violent expression of this movement.
All the US would have to do is to finance, train and support the Kurds with weapons and air cover.
Of course Turkey, with their own Kurdish minority would strongly oppose such a move.
Since the Incirlik air base in Turkey would be absolutely necassary for such an operation maybe this is the reason why this card has not been played up to now.
But with a fallen Syria the US could completely bypass Turkey, operating military bases and air fields in Syria and moving troups and material directly from the Mediterranian coast of Syria into eastern Syria, right to the Iranian border.
Even the threat of such an operation could be used to pressure Turkey, to severe their ties vis a vis Iran and play a much more useful role in bringing down the mullahs.
The last thing Turkey wants to see, is a separatist movement spreading into their own country.
The Azeris could be brought into the boat not only by extending the territory of Azerbaijan but also by providing an alternative route for their oil fields in the Caspian sea.
By linking up Syria, Iranian Kurdistan and Iranian areas inhabited by Azeris with Azerbaijan all these people would profit form the transit of goods and the Caspian Oil through these countries to the Mediterranian sea.
This is especially true for landlocked Armenia.
Of course, the fall of the Assad regime would alse give the IAF much more freedom to operate over Syria.
November 30, 2012 at 12:07 PM
Addentum:
When I said “..eastern Syria, right to the border of Iran”, I was thinking of the Kurdish region of north Iraq which borders Syria and Iran.
The area on the Syrian side of the border is also inhabited by Kurds and is a part of ‘Syrian Kurdistan’.
November 30, 2012 at 2:13 AM
Like I said before- it is now probably too late.
November 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Artaxes lays out a really good scenario but time is running out for all the pieces to ‘fall’ into place. I think Iran will test a nuke in the near future, but only after they have a sufficient inventory as a deterrent. Just a hunch.
November 30, 2012 at 6:45 PM
Thanks for bringing me back to reality.
You are very probably right about the time running out.
My hope is, that the IDF does what it always does best: the impossible.
About the stupidity of Washington politicians I have lost hope.
Have good day