Posted on 08/26/2012 8:32:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The satellite image shows large pink tarpaulins pulled across two buildings. Close by, it appears that topsoil has been moved and a security fence taken down. The image, taken earlier this week and provided to CNN by DigitalGlobe, is of an Iranian military facility at Parchin, one widely suspected by Western diplomats as a secret part of the country’s nuclear program.
It’s one of several developments on Iran’s nuclear program that worry experts - others being: the failure of another round of talks between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iranian officials; reports that Iran has increased the number of centrifuges enriching uranium; and a drumbeat of warnings from Israel that diplomacy and sanctions aren’t working.
Inspectors from the IAEA have been repeatedly denied access to Parchin, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Tehran, so exactly what is going on there is a matter of debate.
David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security says of the latest images: "The purpose of covering the buildings could be to conceal further cleanup activity. … Depending on how effective of a seal the tarp provides, the goal could be continue sanitizing the inside and outside of the building that is suspected to contain particles indicative of nuclear weapons development work."
Many Western diplomats and nuclear experts believe the facility has been used to test high-explosive nuclear triggers, an essential step toward achieving a weapons capability. Iran denies that Parchin has any role in its nuclear program, which it insists is for peaceful purposes. But the satellite imagery suggests a lot of "cleaning up" has been done there.
A meeting in Vienna Friday between IAEA officials and an Iranian delegation, which in part was to discuss access to the Parchin site, ended without progress.
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Seriously, this looks to me like they are trying to draw attention to activity at this site. Perhaps they will think the Israelis will be fooled into thinking that only sites with pink tarps are sites where nuclear activity is going on.
Good point. Just a distraction as part of their larger “shell game”.
I knew some Iranians in college. They were very smart guys.
Temporary quarters for the human shields.
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool Israelis...
Iranians get up around noon... It's a good mix.
I believe that a weapon from Pakistan is already in position to be hurled at Tel Aviv as soon as an attack is launched against Iran...
Computer virus laden muzzies with NORK technology.
Methinks the peeps of Eye-ran are in more danger than anybody else.
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