IAEA TAKEN TO DECOY IRANIAN NUKE SITES

[Socialist Christian]

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2003/november/11_21_1.html

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Iranian opposition sources said Teheran took inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to a decoy site to ensure that they would miss a secret nuclear facility. The sources said the decoy site was established in an area identified by the IAEA as containing suspected nuclear activities.

The decoy site was identified as being located in Hashtgerd. The site was built as being similar to the suspected nuclear facility, located near the city of Karaj.

[Caution]

1. Are these similar to the Iraqi "opposition" sources?

namely Mr. Chalabi, who kept feeding information to the Bush administration about the so-called WMDs?

[remfan]

2. Yeah, there's at least one group

organized around the Shah's son, and I think it's based in the US.

[hippiechick]

4. he was on CSpan this morning ....

Tell me he's 'fair and balanced' in his perspective on the whole situation .... :eyes:


:hippie:

[nolabels]

5. I say we should have fair trade, when will them other guys pony up

Look the other way till you need some cover for other operations that have gone wrong, sounds familiar to me. Looking for secret nuclear developments, maybe they should look at other places. That's if they want to be fair and balanced, that is

http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/israel/nuke.html

Israel's Nuclear Weapon Capability: An Overview

The Risk Report
Volume 2 Number 4 (July-August 1996).

Today, Israel is the world's sixth most powerful nuclear state, with a stockpile of more than 100 nuclear weapons and with the components and ability to build atomic, neutron and hydrogen bombs. Israel's nuclear program began and still operates under tight secrecy, but in the 1980s a series of revelations showed the crucial role played by foreign suppliers.

France launched Israel on the nuclear path in the late 1950s by building the Dimona reactor, which is still the source of Israel's plutonium--its main nuclear weapon fuel. The reactor's heavy water, essential to achieve a chain reaction, was supplied by Norway in 1959. In 1963, when the reactor started operation, the United States supplied four more tons of heavy water.

Israel got other nuclear help from the United States, which also supplied a small 5-megawatt (thermal) research reactor at Nahal Soreq. The reactor started in 1960, but cannot produce significant quantities of plutonium. Instead, the reactor offered an early training ground for Israeli nuclear technicians. Later in the 1960s, Israel was widely thought to have smuggled more than 100 kilograms of highly enriched uranium out of a nuclear materials plant in Pennsylvania.

FRANCE'S CONTRIBUTION

Franco-Israeli nuclear cooperation is described in detail in the book "Les Deux Bombes" (1982) by French journalist Pierre Pean, who gained access to the official French files on Dimona. The book revealed that the Dimona's cooling circuits were built two to three times larger than necessary for the 26-megawatt reactor Dimona was supposed to be--proof that it had always been intended to make bomb quantities of plutonium. The book also revealed that French technicians had built a plutonium extraction plant at the same site. According to Pean, French nuclear assistance enabled Israel to produce enough plutonium for one bomb even before the 1967 Six Day War. France also gave Israel nuclear weapon design information
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[loudnclear]

3. So what? With the US/UK/Israel armed to the teeth with nukes, Iran

should use everything it can to protect itsself from the true terrorists of the world.