Even Iran diplomat confirms nuke plant blast
Even Iran diplomat confirms nuke plant blast.
Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad says his bomb is ready if Israel attacks
Published: 5 hours ago
by A European intelligence agency, an Iranian diplomat and a Latin American intelligence source have joined the growing list of those who have confirmed to WND the deadly explosions at Iran’s Fordow nuclear site.
Media and unofficial speculation points to Israel as the culprit in its efforts to keep Iran from building nuclear weapons. Several Iranian leaders have said repeatedly in the past it is their duty to wipe out the Jewish state.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in interviews Wednesday with media, said the Islamic regime has already achieved nuclear capability but is not interested in attacking the “Zionist entity.” If Israel attacks first, he said, Iran is ready destroy it.
WND reported the Jan. 21 explosions exclusively on Jan. 24, with updates on Jan. 27, 29, 30, 31, and Feb. 3. The blasts at first trapped 219 workers, including 16 North Koreans: 14 technicians and two military attaches. A Fordow security source told WND that as of three days ago, at least 40 people have been killed, including two North Koreans, and more than 60 injured, some in critical condition.
The foreign services division of a European intelligence agency, in confirming the explosions, said its information was verified by assets in Iran’s government. The Islamic regime is now cleaning up the site and assessing the damage. The agency above cannot be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, which could derail talks scheduled for Feb. 26 in Kazakhstan between Iran and the 5-plus-1 countries: the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany.
A high-ranking Iranian diplomat serving in an Iranian consulate in Asia, whose name cannot be revealed due to security, told WND that an order from Iran’s Foreign Ministry was issued days after the explosion to all of its embassies, ambassadors, deputy chiefs and spokesmen that no interviews on Fordow can be given to news agencies and that any response to queries by reporters should refer only to a statement by the White House and a report by news agencies on behalf of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters last week, “We have no information to confirm the allegations in the report and we do not believe the report is credible.”
Then in an unusual move, IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor emailed reporters a brief statement: “We understand that Iran has denied that there has been an incident at Fordow. This is consistent with our observations.”
However, when pushed by WND, Tudor could neither confirm nor deny the incident had taken place and would not say whether IAEA inspectors had visited the site after the explosions, despite some media reports that they had.
In fact, the IAEA has not visited the site since the explosions despite media rumors it has, said the security source at Fordow who originally provided the information on the explosions.
In a letter to the IAEA two days after the explosions, Iran said it plans to install thousands of its upgraded centrifuges at its Natanz facility. The source said this was a direct result of the explosions at Fordow. The White House called it a “provocation,” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the addition of upgraded centrifuges at Natanz would be “unacceptable.”
The Islamic regime, while preparing for talks with the 5-plus-1 powers and bilateral talks with representatives of the Obama administration, is also preparing to retaliate against the U.S., some European countries and Israel, according to an officer in a Latin America intelligence agency who confirmed the explosions to WND.
This further verifies information provided by a former intelligence officer of the regime, Hamidreza Zakeri, and Iranian sources of the explosions.
Interestingly, in a Feb. 2 interview with Fars News Agency, an outlet of the Revolutionary Guards, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Sepehr boasted that Iran is “the fourth biggest cyber power among the world’s cyber armies.”
Reports on Feb. 4 indicated that in a major cyber attack on the U.S. Department of Energy two weeks ago, 14 computer servers and 20 workstations were penetrated. The FBI is investigating the attack. Iran has previously been accused of conducting cyber attacks on U.S. banks and oil facilities in the Persian Gulf region.
Iran, through its official news agency IRNA,assailed WND as a media outlet “under the direct control of the CIA” and WND’s Reza Kahlili as a tool of the CIA to expand propaganda against the regime in the face of its nuclear progress.The Fordow nuclear site was central to the regime’s nuclear bomb program, built 300 feet under the belly of a mountain where over 2,700 upgraded centrifuges were enriching uranium to the 20 percent level. That level could within weeks be further enriched to nuclear weapons grade.
Documents on the explosions at Fordow and further verification will be revealed on WND soon.
WarSclerotic 
February 7, 2013 at 9:20 AM
Sometimes, they say ”the story is so good, that is almost unbelievable”. We want to belive it with all our heart. Somewhere, deep inside, we still have doubts, though. Anyhow, strange iranian decisions were taken lately, like adding much more centrifuges at Natanz. Why there and why now? Natanz is very vulnerable to any attacks. May be the iranians are saying: ” look, you blew up Fordow, but our work may continue in Natanz”. Its also possible that they are trying to save their face and rising the stakes on the next discussions with the west. One thing is obvious for us: if all were to be ok there, at Fordow, then no need for new centrifuges was in demand. Because enough centrifuges were working at Fordow, already. That site was build and engineered exactly for this reason: to be ultra safe and self suficient. Once it was gone the iranians hurried up to replace the centrifuges, and installing new ones in Natanz.
February 7, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Ahmadinejad: I Lied
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2013/02/ahmadinejad-i-lied.html
February 7, 2013 at 2:06 PM
I expected anything but not almost total indifference to what Ahmadinejad said yesterday. He in fact said we have the bomb! And nobody seems to care! Of course, he may well be lying, but he admitted he had been lying before. That warrants front page coverage. HELP! I need someone to pinch me.
February 7, 2013 at 2:09 PM
They knew how to make it, they can make it but they cannot deliver it. Like always, foolish iranian propaganda and barks. Remember the monkey.
February 8, 2013 at 8:55 AM
To Luis:
I think Iran having the bomb is just horrible, horrible news even if the delivery systems are not functional yet. They can always try smuggling it through Sinai, or approach the coast on a barge or even explode it on the border – after all, as Bernard Lewis said ” What will matter is the final destination of the dead– hell for the infidels, and the delights of heaven for the believers.
February 8, 2013 at 9:03 AM
To Luis,
Correction : I think Iran having the bomb WOULD BE just horrible, horrible news .
February 8, 2013 at 1:13 PM
In the very moment they will get the bomb, they also will get another one, right down on their heads. I bet my beard on this.
February 7, 2013 at 4:57 PM
This could very well be one of the biggest bluffs in written history. First we have a “monkey launch” which was nothing more that saying, “We have the capability to deliver”. Then you have the “stealth plane” claim which meant, “We can retailiate”. Now we have the “got nukes” comment which obviously means now we got sharp teeth.
Just today I saw a report that the ‘supremes’ don’t want to talk to Obama because he has a gun to their heads. Now they just upped the pot. Dangerous game of poker indeed.
If Fordow is true, they are scared. They realize they are vulnerable and will say anything to stop the inevitable.
But then again, who wants to call their hand?
February 7, 2013 at 6:10 PM
Its like in that old story, ”The New Clothes Of The Emperor”, a wonderful story for children. Today , even a kid can say :”Mom, look, the iranians are naked!”
February 7, 2013 at 7:21 PM
That is why Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismisses a US offer of one-to-one talks on Tehran’s nuclear program. He doesn’t want to appear in public without any clothes…
February 7, 2013 at 7:55 PM
Off topic: Hello kitty sent into space.
Eat your heart out, iranian space program 😉
February 7, 2013 at 8:42 PM
Hey, Renbe, whats up, man? I havent heard from you almost anything for quit a time. Good to have you back here, man.
Regarding Ali Khamenei, he cannot be disturbed those days by anyone and cannot see anybody. He is still in a debriefing meeting with The Monkey; they are all the time tete a tete, they say, and there is nothing, nothing that can be done about this.
February 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM
Now that’s funny…
February 7, 2013 at 9:52 PM
Breaking Hollywood News:
As the German film magazine “Cinema” revealed, Ahmadinejad had a cameo appearence in the 2001 movie “Planet of the Apes”.
Here are excerpts of an exclusive interview with the magazine:
Cinema: How did you feel while acting in the movie?
Ahmadinejad: I felt great, especially because I had no prior acting experience. I loved it, because I just had to be myself.
Cinema: Have you any future plans regarding a career in the film industry?
Ahmadinejad: Yes, it will be great. You know, my time in office as president of Iran will end in a few months and so I decided to pursue a new career which offers a lot of excitment and in which I can also contribute with my experience and insight of the Iranian politics.
I have always felt that this experience can enrich many movies.
Cinema: Are there any concrete projects?
Ahmadinejad: Yes, my agent is currently in negotiations concerning a new remake of the classic “King Kong”. I have been offered the leading role.
We are als considering a role in a new TV-series. It will be a continuation of the old series “Daktari”. I have been offered the role of the female chimpansee Jane.
This role while immensely challenging is also immensely attractive for me, because I always wanted to show my feminine side.
Cinema: Thank you, Mr. Ahmahdinejad.
February 7, 2013 at 9:56 PM
Correction: The chimpansee is of course Judy.
February 7, 2013 at 10:43 PM
Newsflash! Hollywood Set Held Hostage…Former President Carter To Mediate.
February 7, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Ok, jokes aside.
The Guardian: “Iran releases footage from ‘captured US drone’ – video”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/07/iran-footage-captured-us-drone-video
Why do they have the urgent need for gaining propaganda victories at this point in time?
I mean. It is obvious, that they are desperate to show progress and victories on all fronts.
Why now? Is it their desperate attempt to compensate for their blatant failure to retaliate for Israel’s attack on tagets in Syria after bragging that they consider attacks on Syria as attacks on Iran?
Or is it maybe…Fordow?
Is it an attempt to distract their population from the fact that they are really weak position at the moment?
Is it to prevent the population from rising against the regime in the elections that are to come?
February 7, 2013 at 10:47 PM
it’s dead, man, that’s only nerves….
February 7, 2013 at 11:26 PM
”Is there anybody out there” who remembers not Vera Lynn, but the hostage crisis 1979, USA embassy, Tehran ? Can anyone to explain why a country like Iran back in those days did attacked the embassy of the mighty USA ? Because, if we can understand that, we might have the key to read their minds today.
The reason for that attack was an order from Khomeini , who felt that the ”revolution” may stagnate; he redirected the local energies/furies toward the ”Enemy”. By creating a crisis, he threw some bones to the masses, who happily grabbed it. The antisemitic rhetoric of Ahmad The Monkey is the same tool, readapted. The sparks of a ”captured” drone here and some centrifuges there is the same magical show that the iranian jongleurs are putting on scene for decades. Iran, the mighty persian empire, is only smoke and mirrors. It was terminated by a small but very determinate group of Greeks at Thermopile and later, by a little but very courageous macedonian army, leaded by Alexander.
Nowadays, again a small country but very determinate rises against Iran; our Israel will make all mankind to feel proud again in the face of the dark barbarism.
February 8, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Thank you for your brilliant and enlightening explanation.
Iran took the same path that all regimes take which are based on a totalitarian system that cannot work.
Communism in Russia and the islamic regime in Iran followed the same model.
Both came to power through revolution.
After the revolution all the useful idiots who helped to bring the regime to power and all who were deemed enemies of the new regime or anyone who was in oppositon to the new state were killed.
Having crushed all the internal resistance to the implementation of the communist or islamic utopia they needed both an external enemy:
Because both systems will never bring the promised results they needed an external enemy on which they could put the blame for all their failures and also to direct the aggression of the people towards the supposed enemy instead of having the aggression turned against them.
They needed also to constantly show their military and technological advances and victories of any kind like a lot of olympic medals to show the superiority of their system and to give the people a sense of pride and a feeling of national greatness as substitute for the promised results theiy failed to deliver.
A poor worker in the USSR had not enough to eat but at least he could be proud of his nation being a leader in the space race.
My point is this. This propaganda to show their phantastic results varies in intensity.
One can expect that at times in which the misery or the anger of the people is greater the need for this kind of propaganda is also greater.
February 7, 2013 at 10:44 PM
Send in Jane Fonda. That’ll work.
February 7, 2013 at 11:10 PM
You just killed me with the Carter thing.
At least you can always rely on Carter for one thing.
Whatever he tries, it fails.
February 8, 2013 at 3:00 AM
I have always argued that Iran was responsible for lockerbie:
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Was Iran really responsible for Lockerbie bombing? French spy expert claims that CIA and FBI know but have covered the information up
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272945/Was-Iran-really-responsible-Lockerbie-bombing-French-spy-expert-claims-CIA-FBI-know-covered-information-up.html#axzz2KGUFa4sh
February 8, 2013 at 1:11 PM
To Artaxes:
I completely agree with your analysis and people should read it because it also explains why, suddenly, in a sunny day, the iranian card castle will colapse.