Iran Flaunts Low-Level Enrichment to Conceal High-Powered Weaponizaton Plant

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report ^ | April 14, 2006, 7:27 PM (GMT+02:00)

[strategofr]

!!!

[softwarecreator]

Even for Debka, this makes sense.

[soycd]

the Neyshabour plant has been built 150 m deep under farmland covered with mixed vegetable crops and dubbed Shahid Moradian

I smell a vegetable melody baked at 2,000,000 degrees for a few milliseconds. Rename it Suredid Inthemorans. Push the button W.

[Cobra64]

a top-secret plant under construction that is designed to run 155,000 centrifuges, enough to enrich uranium for 3-5 nuclear bombs a year.

I find it interesting that so many people are aware of "top secret" stuff.

[MHGinTN]

"It is far from sure that the Ukrainian and Belarusian experts will be able to put together a well-synchronized centrifuge project that is workable in the long term." Oh, never doubt that Puti poot's people from Russia can make this Iranian program work well to their (Iran's) deisred specs. Putin hopes to have Iran neutralize the U.S. and Israel, then if threatened Russia will merely turn the entire country of Iran into a glass covered parking lot. Do not trust the Russia of Vlad Putin, KGB headmaster.

[zarf]

I smell a vegetable melody....

Wouldn't you sing one of those?

On the other hand you could sing a "medley" of vegetable hits as well.

[Marine_Uncle]

If Debka is not inventing this one, then obviously the ball game changes completely. Perhaps the US/Brits/French have been aware of this all along and are just keeping things low key for the time being.
I have commented on a few posts it would take them years or longer to obtain the proper type centifuges, assuming the could smuggle them in. If the Bugarians and Ukranians sold the stuff to them, in such huge quantities. Bastards should be sanctioned. And if true about the depth the plant is underground, some 400 feet plus, then there is no way even our next generation special nuclear tipped bunker busters can destroy the facility. These new designs based on articles we have seen posted here in the past two weeks are being designed to penetrate some 100 feet on soil.
Draw your own conclusions.
At any rate if Mossad really had this info for some time and even knew about the suppliers, surely they would have passed this on to the US an Britain long ago. Israel would not play footsy on this deal with us.

[fiftymegaton]

I would love to rip Debka for this but who knows? When Iran is publicly touting a 164 centrifuge cascade who's to say that they don't have another 54,000 centrifuge cascade at another one of a dozen sites ready to go online next month? The Iranians have been stating their intent to build such a cascade for many years now and if their recent rhetoric is any example the regime is clearly going full bore to attain a nuclear weapon.

[Sender]

150 meters deep? Possibly. Let's see, to reach that, you would need a...what?

[Don W]

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There is MUCH more going on than we really WANT to know, kids.

[MHGinTN]

No matter how deep, they must have a way to get to the surface and our munitions can 'fly down their shafts'.

[Marine_Uncle]

"No matter how deep, they must have a way to get to the surface and our munitions can 'fly down their shafts'."
Good point. If one can set up the right angle of attack. Could get a bit dicy if one must fly ten feet above the ground over uneven terrain at some 300 plus knots, if you know what I mean. I bet you the road to tunnel entrance ways dip quite a bit, then once inside the tunnels go upward for hundred of yards. Simple way of preventing what you suggest.

[MHGinTN]

Not really ... blast the crap out of the entries, photview the scurry to repair, then blast the hell out of the repair crews and the entire access system.

[Sender]

Luke Skywalker did it.

[tarator]

The Bulgarians!?

[FairOpinion]

The Iranians made an official announcement, but the MSM didn't publicize it:


Iranian regime admits to building 50,000 centrifuges
Tuesday, 07 February 2006
NCRI Statement - Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the Iranian regime's representative to the IAEA in Vienna, confirmed on Feb. 7 that the regime "will soon install 50,000 centrifuges in the Natanz facility for enrichment of [UF6] gas." Tehran also informed the IAEA in a formal letter that it would halt cooperation with the agency and demanded the removal of surveillance cameras at nuclear sites in Iran. The remarks are a blunt admission to the veracity of revelations by the Iranian Resistance from a year ago, exposing a ploy by Tehran of simultaneously negotiating with the Europeans and continuing to develop and complete its nuclear projects, including the large-scale construction of centrifuges.

http://briefoniran.com/content/view/143/33/

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Jan. 10, 2006

"Iran, however, is building massive underground halls capable of holding an industrial-scale network of 50,000 centrifuges. "

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/13595051.htm

More detail:

http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/natanz03_02.html

[Chaguito]

150meters deep...You don't need anything except pictures of where the air and trucks go in and out. In a few moments it becomes a 150meter deep grave.

[FairOpinion]

Iran's key nuclear sites

According to some estimates, when complete, Natanz could house some 50,000 advanced gas centrifuges, which would produce enough weapons-grade uranium to produce more than 20 weapons per year.

Other estimates suggest the plant will have a total of 5,000 centrifuges when initial stages of the project are completed. With that number, Iran would be able to produce sufficient enriched uranium to make a small number of nuclear weapons each year.