Report: Iran orders evacuation of Isfahan, near nuke site

Jerusalem Post – Breaking News.

 

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

01/03/2013 17:31

 

Iranian officials on Wednesday ordered residents of Isfahan to evacuate the city, the BBC reported, sparking renewed concern a nearby uranium enrichment site is leaking radioactive material.

According to the report, the edict calls on Isfahan’s one-and-a-half million people to leave the city “because pollution has now reached emergency levels.”

Iranian officials previously denied that a leak occurred at the facility, and accused the West of fabricating the story in order to create “tumult” in the region.

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6 Comments on “Report: Iran orders evacuation of Isfahan, near nuke site”

  1. Luis's avatar Luis Says:

    We are approaching fast to the moment of truth. Playing with the atom is literally dirty business. And the Chernobyl engineers who are supervising this mess also dont inspire us too much.

  2. Luis's avatar Luis Says:

    …And if we may add to the previous comment, this seems to us to be serious sh!t. Not only this is echoed by many other sites, but we have a hunch that is also true.

  3. artaxes's avatar artaxes Says:

    There are some reasons, why I don’t trust this story.
    All websites including JP refer either to other websites which refer to BBC or they refer directly to BBC which published only a very short statement and not a full story
    This is the link http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9781000/9781575.stm

    And this is the statement:
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    Iranian authorities have advised the one and a half million people who live in Isfahan to leave the city if they can because pollution has now reached emergency levels. The same thing happened in the capital Tehran earlier this week. Kasra Naji works for the BBC’s Persian TV service in London.

    Other than that, you can find nothing on BBC, no follow-up reports. Nothing.
    Notice, no talk about anything nuclear.

    I think that 1.5 million people leaving a city would generate more waves and more media reports or at least more reports on social media.

    When it comes to pollution I remember Athens 20 years ago(then the most polluted city of Europe) where anyone who could would leave the city in the summer.

  4. renbe's avatar renbe Says:

    For anyone believing this, I have the Brooklyn bridge for sale. As if the evacuation of 1,5 million people would go unnoticed…


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