Iran Surprised to Hear Foreign Media Reports of Massive Explosions in Isfahan
Deputy Governor Denies Confirming Blast in Interview
According to their state-run media, the Iranian government was surprised today when it heard in the international press that a massive explosion had occurred in the city of Isfahan, sending civilians scrambling and leading the Israeli military to speculate that major damage was done to the nation’s nuclear program.
The initial source of the report is unclear, but some reports cited the ISNA, Iran’s “student news agency” as quoting an official about the blast, saying it was related to a military exercise. The ISNA does not have any such story on their English language site as of Monday evening.
The “official” cited was also surprised to hear about it too, according to an interview he gave later in the day with the IRNA, the nation’s official wire service. Deputy Isfahan Governor Mohammed-Mahdi Esma’ili not only denied “confirming” the attack, but insisted he gave no interviews at all earlier in the day, when the confirmation was supposed to have come.
Isfahan’s fire department likewise denied the incident, saying that they had not received any news about any sort of loud explosions in the city. Early reports said the fire department was inundated with phone calls about it.
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notinmyname
November 29th, 2011 at 12:39 am
Western/Israeli disinformation at work
Donna
November 29th, 2011 at 6:38 am
This entire incident has been very perplexing… Israeli media ran with this story and even the Israeli propaganda website Debka carried the news on their scroll (and provided what they say is the original news story from Fars News Agency).
I see two possibilities here. One, there was an explosion of some kind in Isfahan and on the heels of the attack (or accident?) two weeks ago on one of Iran's military bases, the Iranians cannot afford to be seen as weak or having any breeches in their security, so they are denying that anything took place.
We know the US and its allies are messing about inside Iran, so it is possible something did occur.
Or second, this was made up just stir the pot, though I'm not sure what benefit that would be to Israeli media as it makes them look a bit foolish.
But now the US and others say they will look into this incident… Maybe they'll invent something and try to pin it on the Iranians or maybe the story will just go away.
I know when I first read about it, my heart was in my mouth and I thought perhaps this was the beginning of an attack against Iran.
What madness!
John_Muhammad
November 29th, 2011 at 8:09 am
A non-event involving Iranian nuclear facilities? I call shenanigans. Possibly false-flag shenanigans.
J.R.
November 29th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
So, are America and Israel lying about this? Or, are America and Israel conducting terror campaigns of bombings against Iranian targets? Liars or Terrorists. Liars or Terrorists. Liars or Terrorists. Of course, the one thing that certainly isn't true is that America and Israel are honorable, just and peaceful societies. We are the Evil Empire these days. We are Mordor. Darth Vader works for us. Send the Nazgul over to take out those pesky Iranians who seem to want just enough power to keep Mordor at bay.
JOHN JOHN
November 29th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
I think this supposed explosion is wishful thinking by Israel and the U.S.
RockyRococo
November 29th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
This just serves to reiterate how hopelessly in the dark we ordinary people are. Somebody's lying, and we have no way of identifying who the liars are. This is only going to be made worse with passage of the pending "intellectual property rights" legislation on the Hill in DC, which will compel the shutting down of the entire internet presence of any website accused of including any "pirated intellectual property" of any party. That essentially spells the end of all but totally centrally controlled content from ever appearing on any website that wishes to remain in business, it represents the end of everything from Facebook and Twitter to all manner of blogs, to the most indispensable internet resource for popular resistance and alternatives to hegemonically-controlled media, YouTube.
JOHN JOHN
November 30th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Another thing I get a kick out of… Refering to an Iranian attack Israel keeps saying ' ALL OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE' ….That''s where there going to stay. It's like the boy who cried WOLF to many times!