Report: Iran smuggling German-made nuclear equipment via Dubai – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Posted by Matt in June 7th, 2010 | no comment

Iran has been able to smuggle advanced technological equipment to its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz via a complex smuggling route based in Dubai, the Sunday Telegraph reported on Sunday.
Report: Iran smuggling German-made nuclear equipment via Dubai – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Iran Shielding Its Nuclear Efforts in Maze of Tunnels

Posted by Matt in January 6th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, Bunkers, Decade, Holy City, Iran Nuclear, Last September, Maze, tunnels, Uranium Enrichment Plant

Last September, when Iran’s uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country.
The New Media [...]

Iranian scientist who vanished ‘gave nuclear secrets’ to UN inspectors sent to Qom site – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in December 12th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Middle East, Frankfurt Airport, French Intelligence, Intelligence Sources, International Weapons, Iran, Monitors, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Secrets, Physicist, Qom, Regime, Scientist, Six Months, Sunday Telegraph, Tehran University, Underground Site, United Nations, Uranium Enrichment Plant

An Iranian scientist who vanished six months ago has revealed secrets of his country’s nuclear programme with international weapons inspectors, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
Shahram Amiri briefed United Nations nuclear monitors in a clandestine meeting at Frankfurt airport just hours before they flew to Iran to inspect a hidden uranium [...]

CIA Knew About Iran’s Secret Nuclear Site for Three Years – TIME

Posted by Matt in October 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Europe, Iran, Cia, Cia Director, European Intelligence Agencies, Iran Nuclear, iranians, Leon Panetta, Presentation, Proof, Qum, tehran, Uranium Enrichment Plant

This summer, as the Obama Administration prepared to confront Iran with proof of its undisclosed uranium-enrichment plant in Qum, CIA Director Leon Panetta ordered his staff to work with European intelligence agencies to compile a comprehensive presentation about the facility. Although the Iranians had taken great pains to keep the facility a secret, building it [...]

Five more Iranian nuclear enrichment plants spotted

Posted by Matt in September 30th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Enrichment Plants, G20 Summit, Holy City, Iran, Mi6 Agents, Mountains, Nuclear Enrichment, Nuclear Plants, Nuke Plants, Qom, Revolutionary Guards, Uranium Enrichment Plant

Deep-cover MI6 agents who found the previously secret underground uranium enrichment plant near the Iranian holy city of Qom have discovered a staggering five more similar plants.
They, like the Qom facility, are buried deep inside the mountains of north Iran and are guarded by divisions of Revolutionary Guards.
The details have been sent this weekend to [...]

DEBKAfile – Too late to stop Tehran, Obama aims to stifle an Israeli attack

Posted by Matt in September 27th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Barack Obama, Concealment, Confrontation, defiance, Histrionics, Iran, Islamic Regime, Israeli Attack, Maestro, Nuclear Capabilities, Nuclear Weapons Program, tehran, Uranium Enrichment Plant, Water Off A Duck

Maestro Barack Obama’s histrionics in New York and Pittsburgh Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24-25 – and his threat of “confrontation” for Iran’s concealment of its nuclear capabilities – were water off a duck’s back for Tehran, whose nuclear weapons program has gone too far to stop by words or even sanctions.
The Islamic regime only responded [...]

DEBKAfile – US giant bunker-buster bomb project rushed since Iran’s Qom site discovered

Posted by Matt in September 27th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military Tech, Air Force Units, Bomb Project, bombs, Bunker Buster Bomb, Clock, Debkafile, Discovery, Giant, International Outcry, Iran, Massive Ordinance Penetrator, Military Sources, Pentagon, Qom, Rush Job, Stealth Bomber, Target Date, Underground, Uranium Enrichment Plant

The Pentagon has brought forward to December 2009 the target-date for producing the first 15-ton super bunker-buster bomb (GBU-57A/B) Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which can reach a depth of 60.09 meters underground before exploding. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that top defense agencies and air force units were also working against the clock to adapt the bay [...]

Exclusive: Israel’s air maneuver did not simulate possible Iran strike strategy

Posted by Matt in June 23rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Military, Attack, Blitz, Capability, Conjunction, Crete, Greek Air Force, helicopters, Iran Nuclear, Israel, Israel Nuclear, Israeli Air Force, Long Distance, Maneuver, Military Sources, natanz, Nuclear Facilities, Reactor, Rehearsal, Tactic, Uranium Enrichment Plant, Warplanes

DEBKAfile’s Western military sources do not believe that if Israel does attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it will resort to the old-fashioned aerial blitz tactic employed in 1981 for bombing Iraq’s Osirak reactor. They therefore challenge the US officials’ conclusion that Israel’s aerial exercise in conjunction with the Greek Air Force over Crete in early June [...]

Iran installs advanced centrifuges (P-2/IR-2) in main atom plant

Posted by Matt in April 3rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Nuclear, Atom Bombs, Bellows, Carbon Fiber, Centrifuge, centrifuges, Counterpart, Diplomats, Factsheet, Fuel Enrichment, Intention, Iran, Islamic Republic, Maraging Steel, natanz, Nuclear Program, Reuters, Steel Bellows, Steel Rotor, Un Security Council, Uranium Enrichment Plant, Weapons Facility

Diplomats say Islamic Republic installing new centrifuges in Natanz weapons facility in move said to show it has no intention of suspending nuclear program despite demands by UN Security Council
Iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges in its main uranium enrichment plant, accelerating activity that could give it the means to make atom bombs in future [...]