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Western diplomats: Iran hauling dirt to nuclear site to cover up activity

The UN agency believes Iran may have conducted explosives tests that could help develop nuclear weapons at Parchin and wants immediate access to investigate the facility. Iran denies this, saying Parchin is a conventional military complex.

The latest satellite image, dated November 7, showed what appeared to be piles of dirt, according to diplomats who attended the briefing by chief UN inspector Herman Nackaerts.

“They have been scraping the earth. Now they obviously want to put down new earth. There are piles of them that you can see,” one diplomat said, adding a fence had also come down.

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That clear red line in the desert just got dirt on it….

ProfShadow on November 22, 2012 at 3:45 PM

Or is it just another cover up? I’m sure the MSM will be all over it and expose the cover up…..

ProfShadow on November 22, 2012 at 4:16 PM

ProfShadow on November 22, 2012 at 4:16 PM

What, you mean dig the dirt on them?

We should be so lucky!

OldEnglish on November 22, 2012 at 4:21 PM

Perhaps it is a training facility for drivers of backhoes, bulldozers, graders, diggers and other earth-moving machines?

Or perhaps the Iranians are moving dirt around just to wind everybody up, because that attack on themselves they have been trying for years to provoke still hasn’t come?

YiZhangZhe on November 22, 2012 at 4:44 PM

If any of the dirt was contaminated by nuclear tests, would the radioactivity be detectable by a satellite?

YiZhangZhe on November 22, 2012 at 4:46 PM