Friday, September 25, 2009

How Secrecy Over Iran's Qom Nuclear Facility Was Finally Blown Away

Iran's Revolutionary Guards fire missiles during a war game in the desert southeast of Tehran

From Times Online:


It was three years ago that American intelligence agents began picking up signs that someone was tunnelling into the side of a mountain in the desert outside the holy city of Qom.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a year into his first term as Iran’s President and had just ordered the resumption of uranium enrichment, ending the two-year suspension demanded when the world first discovered the existence of Iran’s covert nuclear programme. It was Mr Ahmadinejad’s open defiance that caught the world’s attention. But only months later, the covert defiance had begun again, too.

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My Comment: The Iranians must now wonder what other secrets have been compromised. They are in a very uncomfortable position right now.

1 comment:

dprosenthal said...

What is all this garbage about the big 'secret' finally coming to light? Israel has been reporting this for years and, furthermore, we are really in deep ** if our own intelligence agencies have just made this discovery. The only real question should be--if we know where the facility is, why haven't we (w/ our allies) blown the damn place up?