As speculation continues to swirl around the bulldozing of a pair of sites on an Iranian military base, IAEA Chief Amano Yukiya added his two cents today, speculating that they might be “cleaning away traces” from a rumored 2003 nuclear test.
Intelligence agencies believe Iran had a very rudimentary nuclear weapons program back then, and abandoned it at about this time. There’s no real evidence that the 2003 test ever happened, however.
Despite this lack of evidence, and that Amano’s suspicions were apparently just his own guess at what is happening, he said that he is seeking “clarification” from Iran on the possibility, and is continuing to demand access to the Parchin military base.
Parchin has been at the center of a number of Western demands, but Iran is under no obligation to grant the IAEA access to it under the safeguards agreement. Iranian officials have expressed concern in the past that IAEA inspectors have leaked data on their visits, and are reluctant to grant additional access to a key military facility, which could potentially be used as a fact-finding mission for Western nations about Iran’s conventional arsenal.
Amano has, of course, proven to be a puppet dancing to the tunes of western powers. However, you would assume that someone who’s the head of an international organization like the IAEA should at least have enough knowledge and common sense that destroying a building does not remove traces of radioactivity. I wonder if he was a sheepherder in Japan before being picked up for his servility.
Actually the Amano family is known for having served the Japanese Emperor faithfully. Their position? Imperial Shoeshine Boys.
All youse guys need to think a little more clearly about this article. And it doesn't help that Jason is reprinting the ridiculously misleading headline from McClatchy, which got it from the LA Times(like the NYT, an establishment/Zionist promoter of war with Iran). This is a Mossad (possibly, CIA as well) propaganda action, nicely executed.
The so-called "nuclear test" of the article's title, is a propaganda variant of the old smear "Have you stopped beating your wife?" The LA Times author has lured McClatchy, Jason, and all of you into a rhetorical trap. They write "nuclear test", intentionally wanting you to mistakenly think that this means a test of a nuclear weapon. No one ever, anywhere, would test a nuclear weapon in a big metal hydrodynamic testing chamber in the middle of their most important military base. Even a failed test would destroy the base. Well duh!
If you've been following this at all, you know that "an unnamed third country" ie Israel, has claimed that test(s) of implosion detonation techniques have been carried out at Parchin. These would be, if they were true, which they aren't, tests of conventional explosives configured to compress with the necessary degree of radial symmetry, the fissionable core of a nuke. Such tests would NOT use radioactive material, but rather a non-radioactive metal substitute. This would be the meaning of "nuclear test" as used in the article. (More precisely, such tests would be nuclear weapons ***related*** tests, but writing it that way would destroy the propaganda effort.) But you didn't realize that, and just assumed it was a test of a bomb itself. Which is what the Mossad and their LA Times hireling intended. Now the lie that "Iran carried out a test of a nuclear weapon back in 2003" will go round the world, suggesting that "the nasty, lying, Iranian terrorist regime" already has the bomb, and that soon an American city will be vaporized (cf Mushroom Cloud) unless we attack Iran immediately.
Are you getting it now?
By the way, the suspect hydrodynamic chamber has been photographed by satellite, and it's too small to contain the explosive charge necessary for a nuke implosion design. It's all criminal Zionist propaganda.
Hows does it go after this?
No evidence of nuclear testing was found, which proves nuclear testing took place, so bombs away!
Where on Earth has america got this asslicking jackass from?
So what if they did a nuclear test.. youd think the ones making the accusations had never done a nuclear test. In any case there’s a lot of scum out there that the people of Iran need to protect themselves from.
First, you have to read carefully. There is nothing in the linked article that refers to what any normal person would call a "nuclear test".
Nuclear weapons rely on conventional explosives to rapidly compact the nuclear warhead into a critical mass. This whole thing is about a test of those conventional explosives. There's been a lot of BS around about this, about some Russian who supposedly went to Iran and did this a decade ago. With rumors of some test chamber being built.
So, the very headline is very misleading. Nothing nuclear went on at all. And of course, there are other reasons to test and use regular old high explosives. What you should notice is that everyone in this article is lying right from the beginning by calling this a 'nuclear test'. They are putting visions of mushroom clouds and the sorts of massive underground nuclear explosions that the US has done many, many times in your head by using misleading language.
And that's the most important thing you should note. That people are trying to mislead you. Once you understand that, and assuming you are smart enough to know no to trust or believe people who are obviously and deliberately trying to mislead, then you know all you need to know.
File under more BS that supposed to smear Iran, make Obama look 'strong', and will undoubtedly lead to a war after the election (if we elect either Obama or Romney) and thus lead to the deaths of thousands of people, and the wounding and maiming of many more. If you want to connect the real dots, connect the people who put this story out to the screaming and crying of people at the funerals of their loved ones.
Everyone's intelligence agrees that Iran's nuclear weapons program- even in it's most basic form- ended in 2003, and now Iran is cleaning up a site that may or may not have been used for nuclear testing in…..2003. The most obvious question to any rational person would be, "So what?"
There is a desperate "need" for some, any !! REAL evidence…… to bridge the void between what the NATO NeoCon-TROLLed Countries allege and what actually IS………….
Conned…??? Trolled…??? ConTrolled..??? NeoConTrolled… the latest iteration..
NeoConTroll Axis F-A-S-C-I-S-M…………..???????? ["NAF"] Unlimited nukes for US…!!!! None for YOU!!
How does this guy have any credibility? The big one happened (and is still happening) on his watch and in his own country to boot.
Ironically, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has just released a report showing that the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel possess approximately 4400 operational nuclear weapons. Nearly half of these are kept in a state of "high operational alert" — no doubt half of them are aimed at Iran and the other half at China. Well, maybe some of Isreal's nukes are aimed at the US. 🙂
Israel has nuclear weapons? I'm shocked- SHOCKED, I TELL YOU.
Shhhhhh….it's a secret.
The great investigavite journalist Seymour Hersh pointed out about 6 months ago that Amano was the US government's lackey:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/201…
Here we go again. Remember the "mobile bio labs" that Powell blathered on about?
But here is something we can do. Let's use boycott and divestment to (nonviolently) increase the cost of a preemptive by Israel:
http://www.divestfromwar.org/
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