Posted on 01/29/2013 1:35:14 PM PST by TXnMA
Reports of an explosion at Iran's Fordow nuclear facility have surfaced and are being both confirmed and denied by multiple sources.
The Jerusalem Post cites a report by Reza Kahlili that says: “The blast shook facilities within a radius of three miles. Security forces have enforced a no-traffic radius of 15 miles, and the Tehran- Qom highway was shut down for several hours after the blast.” Kahlili's report says the Fordow nuclear facility was severely damaged in an explosion and up to 240 workers trapped inside. The explosion was reportedly confined to the plant, suggesting that if it were an airstrike, it was highly localized. But this possibility is no more or less likely than sabotage, or an accident, assuming the explosion occurred at all.
>SNIP<
Iran's official news agency, says the same thing, with the IRNA, promptly denying the explosion, claiming the news was simply the result of the Western media-fueled "propoganda machine." That might have ended the story there, but The Times of London's Israel correspondent Sheera Frenkel is confirming the incident through her own independent sources: An explosion is believed to have damaged Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, which is being used to enrich uranium, Israeli intelligence officials have told The Times. Sources in Tel Aviv said yesterday that they thought the explosion happened last week. The Israeli Government is investigating reports that it led to extensive structural damage and 200 workers had been trapped inside. One Israeli official said: “We are still in the preliminary stages of understanding what happened and how significant it is.” He did not know, he added, if the explosion was “sabotage or accident”, and refused to comment on reports that Israeli aircraft were seen near the facility at the time of the explosion.
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There are few things less suitable for amateurs to do than imagery analysis - I've heard it takes 10 years to produce a good IMINT analyst.
Yes. The 2000 explosion of the Russian Sub Kursk was detected. This blast is likely much larger and coupled into the ground better.
http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2001/prrl0105.html
The tunnels that go underground are the the right of the "crater" - the north edge of the "crater" is actually where they dumped all the dirt and rock from digging the tunnels, hence there are roads leading into that area.
Meanwhile back at Porcupine creek
What do the seismographs at NOAA show? An explosion of that supposed magnitude should show up as at least a blip on most seismographs.
You know that Cat Stevens is a muzzie moron, right?
His money has financed considerable terrorism.
A check of SEISMIC ACTIVITY for IRAN on DEC 21 shows nothing for that AREA, at the time the say it happened.
Surely an explosion that large would have registered on SEISMIC LOGS.
Here.... look for yourself.
http://earthquake-report.com/2012/01/19/iran-real-time-earthquakes-list/
...and he lives in Iran.........
NOAA doesn’t operate seismographs; the USGS does, linked into a wide variety of international networks (EMSC, IRIS, and the special nuclear explosion monitoring network, the IDC in Vienna.)
There was no seismically-recorded explosion from any network, located remotely near Fordow, at any time remotely near the time when the explosion was claimed to happen.
Well we know it’s NOT Chuck Norris’ shadow. Chuck Norris casts no shadow, what you see is because the sun is too scared to shine on him.
Or, and most obviously, the shadow of a cloud.
Clouds are likely not common in Qom but that’s what it appears to me
“Yes. Since it wasn’t, it means there wasn’t an explosion.”
And you base that authoritative “wasn’t” on...?
bttt
http://earthquake-report.com/2012/01/19/iran-real-time-earthquakes-list/
Nothing happened at that time on the 21st, in that area of Iran.
Better information than "Reza Khalili", WND, or John Batchelor.
Actually, without seeing the raw logs, all it means is that IT WASN'T REPORTED as an EARTHQUAKE.
I haven't been able to find the SEISMIC LOGS for that day in IRAN, just IRAN EQ reports.
All I can tell you is that Jay Carney wasn’t lying.
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