[UNCONFIRMED] Report of explosion at (formerly) secret Iranian nuclear facility - Polidicks

[quote]An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime. The previously secret nuclear site has become a center for Iran’s nuclear activity because of the 2,700 centrifuges enriching uranium to the 20-percent level. A further enrichment to weapons grade would take only weeks, experts say. The level of enrichment has been a major concern to Israeli officials, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly has warned about the 20-percent enriched stockpile. The explosion occurred Monday, the day before Israeli elections weakened Netanyahu’s political control. Iran, to avoid alarm, had converted part of the stockpile to fuel plates for use in the Tehran Research Reactor. However, days after the recent failed talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iranian officials announced the enrichment process will not stop even “for a moment.” The regime’s uranium enrichment process takes place at two known sites: the Natanz facility with more than 10,000 centrifuges and Fordow with more than 2,700. The regime currently has enough low-grade (3.5 percent) uranium stockpiled for six nuclear bombs if further enriched. However, more time is needed for conversion of the low-grade uranium than what would be needed for a stockpile at 20 percent. It takes 225 kilograms of enriched uranium at the 20-percent level to further enrich to the 90-percent level for one nuclear bomb. According to a source in the security forces protecting Fordow, an explosion on Monday at 11:30 a.m. Tehran time rocked the site, which is buried deep under a mountain and immune not only to airstrikes but to most bunker-buster bombs. The report of the blast came via Hamidreza Zakeri, formerly with the Islamic regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and National Security, 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, the source said. As of Wednesday afternoon, rescue workers had failed to reach the trapped personnel. The site, about 300 feet under a mountain, had two elevators which now are out of commission. One elevator descended about 240 feet and was used to reach centrifuge chambers. The other went to the bottom to carry heavy equipment and transfer uranium hexafluoride. One emergency staircase reaches the bottom of the site and another one was not complete. The source said the emergency exit southwest of the site is unreachable. The regime believes the blast was sabotage and the explosives could have reached the area disguised as equipment or in the uranium hexafluoride stock transferred to the site, the source said. The explosion occurred at the third centrifuge chambers, with the high-grade enriched uranium reserves below them. The information was passed on to U.S. officials but has not been verified or denied by the regime or other sources within the regime. Though the news of the explosion has not been independently verified, other sources previously have provided WND with information on plans for covert operations against Iran’s nuclear facilities as an option before going to war. The hope is to avoid a larger-scale conflict. Israel, the U.S. and other allies already have concluded the Islamic regime has crossed its red line in its quest for nuclear weapons, other sources have said.[/quote] Source: [url=http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EX-20130126-38002-IRN]Emergency and Disaster Information Service[/url]

Iran's not going to be happy

I wonder how they're going to react if this is an act of sabotage

I bet the Jews did this.

[QUOTE=Saxon;39363818]I wonder how they're going to react if this is an act of sabotage[/QUOTE] It would not surprise me at all if it were sabotage.

[QUOTE=Saxon;39363818]I wonder how they're going to react if this is an act of sabotage[/QUOTE] The US has already attacked another facility twice, so it's not out of the realm of possibility.

It would be funny if a war were started because of accusations of sabotage, and 20 years later we find out it was because a drunk scientist shat in the reactor.

Quick delete the article and leave the link before you get banned

[QUOTE=RosettaStoned;39363821]I bet the Jews did this.[/QUOTE] Of course the Jews did it. Every time the Arabs do something that Israel doesn't like, someone is assassinated, or something is blown up or disappears mysteriously. Just look at that guy that tried to build a Paris gun for Saddam to siege Jerusalem, he had his head blown off by a rigged cell phone midway through the project and it was scrapped.

[QUOTE=Vintage Thatguy;39363913]Quick delete the article and leave the link before you get banned[/QUOTE] can you dinks stop "snip article" posts the rule isn't meant to make everyone just drop a link and nothing else stop posting huge fully-formatted articles. Drop a tl;dr or clean it up, but garry got sick of seeing massive OPs that are clearly just cut/paste start to end from a big source. I've seen a few where it even had the advertisement text between paragraphs. Drop the link for the full thing but at least have content to show. This thread and a number of others are perfectly fine as they are

[QUOTE=person11;39363863]It would be funny if a war were started because of accusations of sabotage, and 20 years later we find out it was because a drunk scientist shat in the reactor.[/QUOTE] No I don't think a war with a nuclear capable country in the worlds most unstable region would be funny.

[QUOTE=daijitsu;39363961]can you dinks stop "snip article" posts the rule isn't meant to make everyone just drop a link and nothing else stop posting huge fully-formatted articles. Drop a tl;dr or clean it up, but garry got sick of seeing massive OPs. Drop the link for the full thing but at least have content to show. This thread and a number of others are perfectly fine as they are[/QUOTE] [quote=garry]Please do not paste entire articles into threads. Link to them instead.[/quote] He could have been a bit more specific then.

[QUOTE=RosettaStoned;39363821]I bet the Jews did this.[/QUOTE] [img]http://melgibstein.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/jew-cartoon.gif[/img]

[QUOTE=Vintage Thatguy;39364009]He could have been a bit more specific then.[/QUOTE] yeah, I had to ask because I figured that was the case for the record- [QUOTE=garry]They can post what they want, just don't paste the entire article.[/QUOTE]

If there is going to be a war, it wll be started by Israel and the US, though they'll make it seem as if they're acting out of self defense.

Can we just [b]please[/b] leave them the fuck alone?

[QUOTE=RosettaStoned;39363821]I bet the Jews did this.[/QUOTE] Everything is a Jewish conspiracy! [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3rMo5cgaXQ#t=2199s[/URL] (after years of mentioning this quote I have finally found it on youtube!) (Edit: Does timeskipping not work on emebded videos?)

[QUOTE=daijitsu;39363961]can you dinks stop "snip article" posts the rule isn't meant to make everyone just drop a link and nothing else stop posting huge fully-formatted articles. Drop a tl;dr or clean it up, but garry got sick of seeing massive OPs that are clearly just cut/paste start to end from a big source. I've seen a few where it even had the advertisement text between paragraphs. Drop the link for the full thing but at least have content to show. This thread and a number of others are perfectly fine as they are[/QUOTE] Right so you're allowed to post the article as long as it's not just a raw wall of text? TL;DR and maybe highlighting important parts and you're good to go?

[QUOTE=daijitsu;39363961]but garry got sick of seeing massive OPs that are clearly just cut/paste start to end from a big source[/QUOTE] Didn't FP once get into legal shit over people not happy about whole articles being posted?

[QUOTE=Shibbey;39364811]Didn't FP once get into legal shit over people not happy about whole articles being posted?[/QUOTE] The company sueing them lost the case against him and many websites, and when ordered to pay for peoples costs etc... it was found out they were near enough bankrupt.

[QUOTE=The golden;39363886]Maybe a pigeon dropped a baguette into it.[/QUOTE] You racist bastard. We don't all like baguettes. Why are you trying to blame me? Watch this become a "warhead testing" conspiracy.

Isn't there like a explosion report every couple months? [editline]26th January 2013[/editline] What makes this explosion real?

This wont end well on my end.

- snip because mental retardation -

Well, it could always have been an accident...right?

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;39365329]The CIA [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080101453.html"]says[/URL] ten years.[/QUOTE] That was 8 years ago.

[QUOTE=Jetblack357;39363841]It would not surprise me at all if it were sabotage.[/QUOTE] It [B]IS[/B] a sabotage because civilian or even military nuclear facilities don't store explosives in them.

Gestapo did it.

[QUOTE=The golden;39363886]Maybe a pigeon dropped a baguette into it.[/QUOTE] Those French always were the crafty ones... :v:

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;39365445]Well, it could always have been an accident...right?[/QUOTE] Prepare for unforeseen consequences