Posted on 09/29/2009 12:06:49 PM PDT by Nachum
Tehran - Iran's nuclear chief said on Tuesday his country built its newly revealed uranium enrichment facility inside a mountain and next to a military site to ensure continuity of its nuclear activities in case of an attack.
Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who also heads the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, said the site near the holy city of Qom is next to an ammunition depot controlled by the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran's most powerful military force. He said the only connection between the Qom nuclear facility and the Guard is the Guard would protect it against possible attacks.
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WOW! A wealth of info there. That would rattle some ear drums.
didn’t these two towelheads just confirm what our satellites thought they saw.
My Congressman was on the radio this morning. head of the intelligence committee. Mike Rogers. Good man. He said tht he and Berry have known about the second reactor since he was sworn in. Hmmmm!
Does that situation make it a “two-fer’ for Israel when they drop the bunker busters and destroy the nuclear plant?
Exactly but an end around is very easily handled if the basis of attack were as a ground based assault which is not necessarily the way to. I was stationed in Teheran from 1972-1974 and visited the airfield at Qum a few times in 73 when the Blue Angels showed there in the F4’s. I still remember the area very well as the terrain climbed from a dry lake bed area up to the airfield. The terrain reminds me of the area around the Nellis target sites.
The particular site being shown on the news is all wrong if the photo orientation is true north but one can see all sorts of very large excavations around the city most likely used to provide the top cover for the faciity which I don’t think is actually in a mountain. Natanz is located between this site and Esphahan.
your informal photo analysis is probably right — what we are seeing is not really the site in question.
*ANY* fixed location/ high-value/ structurally sensitive site is at risk now. If we know where it is, we can destroy it or at worst render it unusable/ inaccessible.
BTW, the Zagros looked like God had gotten mad at the earth and wiped his hand from east to west and stopped at the Zagros.
I don’t know enough about geography/ geology to know how they formed, but I cannot imagine the tectonic forces at work to pile up rock that steeply/sharply/ that high.
Kind of like the Tetons and the borderline between Germany and Austria between Garmisch and Bad Tolz. Kind of the reverse of what happened at the Grand Canyon.
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