Fordow Nuclear site, Iran
What are we to make about reports from Israel that Iran’s top secret Fordow nuclear facility has been hit by a massive underground explosion that has caused severe damage to the uranium enrichment programme and trapped 240 workers inside?
Claims that the explosion happened last Monday – just as Israelis were digesting the results of the general election – appeared on the Right-wing news website WND last Friday. But three days later the normally garrulous Israelis have gone strangely quiet, while there has likewise been no official comment from Iran.
The Fordow facility is, of course, a vital part of Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. Constructed some 300 feet under a mountain, the complex is immune from attack by even the most sophisticated bunker buster bombs. And it is here that Iran is undertaking some of its most sensitive nuclear research, where an estimated 2,700 centrifuges are enriching uranium to 20 percent – just short of the level required to build a nuclear warhead.
It could be that the Iranians have deliberately leaked news of the explosion to prevent officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency from making one of their routine inspections. On the other hand the Israelis, who have never officially admitted responsibility for assassinating a number of Iranian nuclear scientists, may think it prudent to keep quiet about any involvement they might have had in the explosion for fear of provoking retaliation from Tehran.
Either way, for those of us who would prefer the global crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme to be resolved without recourse to military action, the prospect of the Fordow complex being rendered inoperable just sounds too good to be true.
WarSclerotic 
January 28, 2013 at 8:45 PM
Personally, I wonder if it’s a sham. What are your personal thoughts on the matter? Do you believe they really had some explosion that has destroyed their progression? I highly doubt it, myself. They were under fire about halting their progression, now suddenly, oops..we had a boo boo. I don’t know if I’m buying into it or not.
January 28, 2013 at 9:03 PM
Lyn…
It’s OK not to buy it. The IDF has bought it, so I’m gonna sleep better tonight and for a whole long time thereafter…
January 28, 2013 at 9:12 PM
I was just curious to hear your opinion… I didn’t mean it by any means rudely toward you. I just have questions in my mind..I haven’t made a decision. I certainly hope it DID happen…for everyone’s sake. I hope you are right. I hope they have been set back for many, meany years..that would be great. I just don’t trust Iran at all. Blessings!
January 28, 2013 at 10:29 PM
Lyn…
You weren’t rude, you were thoughtfully withholding judgement. My father essentially said the same to me when I spoke with him last night.
What I said to him I said to you. It’s OK not to believe the story. Discretion is the better part of valor, after all.
But I believe the story as much as I believe anything I hear about that I haven’t witnessed with my own eyes. I do so after resisting the temptation to believe it until it gained a preponderance of evidence.
By now, in my estimation, it has passed the standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt.” ( OK, so I used to be an attorney…)
I’m again looking forward to another good night of sleep after booking a trip to Thailand for Feb/March.
I wouldn’t be leaving Israel for a minute if I didn’t believe this story.
I’ve been living with this nightmare, but now it’s gone:
January 28, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Well that’s what I wanted to hear..your thoughts. Since I’m not over there..I’m all the way over here in the USA (much of what we hear anymore is all a bunch of lies because our government is so corrupt right now) it’s so hard to tell. There is a bunch of dirty stuff going on over here..too much. I’m glad, btw, I didn’t come off rude. Thanks for the reassurance. Have fun in Thailand and I’ll pray there are no tsunami’s while you are there. If it were me going there instead, it would be my luck that it would happen! LOL Blessings to you Joseph! And thanks for all of your updates… they help me on my news website. ♥
January 28, 2013 at 10:59 PM
Oh yes, I saw that. They did an awesome job of acting…very realistic!