Though the full details of the IAEA’s findings won’t be available until some time later this month, the nuclear watchdog’s chief Mohamed ElBaradei says that inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” in their inspection of Iran’s Qom facility in October.
“It’s a hole in a mountain,” ElBaradei noted, saying the site was indeed, as Iran said, a backup enrichment site in case the Natanz facility gets attacked by Israel or the US.
The information was in stark contrast to the claims by an Israeli general earlier this week that the site had “no possible civilian use.” Major General Yadlin agreed though that the primary goal of the site was to make it harder for Israel to sabotage Iran’s program.
In somewhat related news, the IAEA has also asked Iran to explain evidence it was presented that scientists in the nation have experimented with an advanced warhead design. The evidence was reportedly given to them by Western intelligence agencies, though details about how old or reliable the evidence was is not available.
If true, the development would allow Iran to hypothetically develop an efficient nuclear warhead, though Iran is still not enriching uranium to anywhere near a high enough level to create such a warhead and the IAEA has repeatedly certified that the nation is not diverting any of its uranium to any such purpose.
If your country is continually threatened with the bombing of your nuclear facilities, it would seem common sense to setup a more secure area as a backup. Note that Iran revealed the existance of this site to the UN as required, *and* allowed inspections.
Doesn't matter what anyone says, much less the head of the IAEA — UsRael is going to bomb Iran anyway and there's is not one damn thing that anyone, even a US citizen, can do about it.
The minute the US economy is six feet under, Israel will jump to her next victim. Oh wait, Israel has already prepared the burial plot for her next host. Thinking far in advance has always been Israel's forte.
what are your bets for next host? India? The EU?
Israel will jump, and has already prepared the jumps, to any country the she perceives has power, India, China, even Russia — Israel's already negotiating.
Israel's been involved in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization for years.
The big showdown will become between Israel and India, it will be a cage fight, but India will win, because India has a billion more people than Israel, including at least 10 million with the brain power to match Israel's Askenazi Jews.
Israhell should be disarmed of it's nukes. Israhell is in violation of illeagl weapons, NOT IRAN.
Israel will regret attacking Iran if it does, that's for sure. Between Hezbollah and Iran's own vast missile arsenal Israel will get what it gives…
Hilarious. What, our divine pharao and his wicked sidekick revealed the existence of a hole in an Iranian mountain! Watch out, the mighty Iranians are coming!