[FARS]

The Mullahs successfully hid this news - for a while.

[FARS]

Our soldiers may be bit safer for a while after this explosion

[mewzilla]

Some backround info at this link on Parchin.

[Gondring]

I would love to see the data from the Iraq-based seismic stations.

[tje]

I don’t believe that the Iranians have anything close to a ‘cruise’ type missle.

[Shadow44]

May death come swiftly to those terrorist scumbags, and their Mullah masters.

[bray]

Probably Achmed playing w/matches??? Too bad, so sad.

Pray for W and Our Victorious Air Force

[RightWhale]

This was a few days ago and there was a thread.

[Steely Tom]

The Shahab 3, 4 and more recently Shahab 5 solid fuel missiles at the site are hidden in old salt mines in the mountain face...

Sounds like perhaps a considerable amount of energy was released in a confined space.

As to how that might have come to happen, well... I suppose we'll never know.

[Paladin2]

Well, there are all sorts of work accidents possible. The automotive airbag propellant factories have had troubles over the years along with numerous fireworks factories.

On the other hand, it's not a good idea to go around pissing folks off.

[Migraine]

That is some of the best news I have heard in quite a while. One can only hope that it was some very special sabotage (by the US, UK or Israel). Or not. Godincidence is OK, too :)

[livius]

This actually appeared on FR (very briefly) on the day it happened. There was no more info, though, and the story went away.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Did it happen again? Or is the story from last week?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Oops, read the date, it’s the one from last week.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I can’t find this anywhere else but I may not be using the right search words.

[Jeff Head]

Hmmm...maybe in a few weeks the spouses of the crew one or more of our nuclear sunbmarines will notice a combat pay increase on their pay checks...hehehe.

[SevenofNine]

Who they going blame this on

Bush?

[M Kehoe]

I wonder if it's a "Workman's Comp." claim, or sabotage. Then again, anything is possible. Maybe there's an 'empty tube,' on someone's submarine?

Just sayin'...

5.56mm

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The Shahab 3, 4 and more recently Shahab 5 solid fuel missiles at the site are hidden in old salt mines

FAS sight calls the whole shootin' match of Iranian (and North Korean) missiles liquid fueled. There is no evidence that the Shahab-5 has ever even been flight tested. I strongly doubt that the Iranians are close to making a solid fueled missile. Solid fueled IRBM are a vastly more difficult to make (and tactically more effective) than liquid fueled.

I know that the Iranians claimed to have made a solid fuel IRBM of some sort, they say a lot of things I'm not buying.

[ApplegateRanch]

Smoking; not smoking; it makes no difference: If Allah wants it to blow up, it will; if he doesn’t, it won’t, Inshall-[ka-BOOM!]-Ahhhhhhhgrh!

[Reaganesque]

It's good to see Steve Urkel has found work with the US military:

Did I do that?