Gates hints at more Iran nuke sites

Wash Examiner ^ | 9/27/09 | Sue Ferrechio

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates strongly hinted on Sunday that Iran may be concealing other nuclear facilities in the country, beyond the uranium enrichment facility disclosed Friday by President Barack Obama and other leaders at the G-20 Summit.

This Week host George Stephanopoulos asked Gates if the newly discovered site is "the only secret site that we know of."

After a pause, Gates said, "I'm not going to get into that. I would just say that we are watching closely."

Gates told Stephanopoulos there is "not a chance" the United States will heed the request of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and apologize for accusing the country of trying to build a nuclear weapons program.

"This is part of a pattern of deception and lies on the part of the Iranians from the very beginning with respect to their nuclear program," Gates said. "So it's no wonder that world leaders think that they have ulterior motives, that they have a plan to go forward with nuclear weapons. Otherwise, why would they do all this in such a deceptive manner?"

Gates said there would first be an effort to persuade Iran to change its policies at group talks with the country that are to take place on Oct. 1. in Geneva.

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Gee, ya think?

[Diogenesis]

Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack HUSSEIN Obama,
Working so hard to let Iran drop a nuclear bomb on ya.

".... my new presidential helicopter.
...will let me cook a meal while under nuclear attack."

[Las Vegas Ron]

zer0 is being played like a cheap fiddle

[tioga]

with 800 American jobs lost due to the cancellation of the marine one contract, I guess I don’t find that so funny.

[Pan_Yan]

At this point there may only be one choice:

MRV’s.

Nuke the site(s) from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Of course there are more sites. Probably building them every since Obama took over.

It amazes me that some people actually think that Obama’s caputulation for 9 months while knowing Iran was lying somehow was a “grand strategy”.

[Jedidah]

EIGHT months. He’s been in office 8 months. 0 keeps saying nine months, but he also thinks there are 57 states.

[Army Air Corps]

PING.

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[G8 Diplomat]

Ever heard of the Al-Zarqan nuke plant? It's Iran's best-kept secret. MEMRI published a document written by an IRGC commander about the reactor. Here's the translation:

From the IRGC Commander in the city of Al-Ahwaz to the director in charge at the Mehab Quds company for Construction and Supervision, Mr. Muhammad Kayafir.

Re: The nuclear reactor at Al-ZarqanGreetings,

I thank you for the good services of the Mehab Quds company, and at the same time I must remind you of the following items:

1. All construction materials must be transported from the warehouses to the construction site in top secrecy.

2. As part of the doctrine of caution, we reiterate yet again that during the transport of all required materials, you must ensure that this [transport] does not arouse the suspicions of any citizen in the region through which you are moving.

3. In general, it is absolutely forbidden to hire any Arabic speakers or any citizen from Khuzestan in the framework of the 'Al-Zarqan Nuclear Reactor' construction project [that's because the Arab minority that lives in Khuzestan hates the Shi'a Persian regime]. You must ensure that all manpower, including the driver, the accountant, the warehouse manager, the laborer, the technician, or the guard, comes from the northern provinces.In conclusion, we say yet again that all the construction work in this project must be carried out under absolute secrecy.

From the aide to IRGC commander in the city of Al-Ahwaz, Hassan Jalaliyan.

[G8 Diplomat]

Also this, from a Kuwaiti newspaper:

Headline Links: Al-Siyassa mentions secret Iranian nuclear facility
“On July 29, 2008, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa reported that, according to ‘highly reliable sources,’ Iranian authorities had begun construction of a secret nuclear reactor in the Al-Zarqan region close to the city of Ahwaz in southwest Iran, on the Iran–Iraq border,” according to MEMRI, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that covers news in the Middle East. MEMRI also provides photographs from the Al-Siyassa article.

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