By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZ
11/30/2011 12:30
11/30/2011 12:30
Satellite imagery "clearly showing billowing smoke and destruction" has proven that an explosion Monday damaged a nuclear facility in the Iranian city of Ifsahan, according to aWednesday Times of London report .
The report quoted Israeli intelligence officials as saying that there was "no doubt" that the blast damaged a uranium enrichment site, and asserted that it was "no accident."
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Officials from Isfahan have been denying that the city had been hit by an explosion.
Mohammad-Mahdi Esma'ili, Isfahan's deputy governor in political and security affairs, called the reports "sheer lies" according to the IRNA news agency. An official from the city's fire department also denied that there had been an explosion.
The mysterious explosion Monday rocked the Iranian city of Isfahan, which hosts a nuclear facility involved in processing uranium fed to the Natanz fuel enrichment facility. Read the rest on: The Jerusalem Post
The report quoted Israeli intelligence officials as saying that there was "no doubt" that the blast damaged a uranium enrichment site, and asserted that it was "no accident."
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Officials from Isfahan have been denying that the city had been hit by an explosion.
Mohammad-Mahdi Esma'ili, Isfahan's deputy governor in political and security affairs, called the reports "sheer lies" according to the IRNA news agency. An official from the city's fire department also denied that there had been an explosion.
The mysterious explosion Monday rocked the Iranian city of Isfahan, which hosts a nuclear facility involved in processing uranium fed to the Natanz fuel enrichment facility. Read the rest on: The Jerusalem Post
Huge explosion in Isfahan, Iran - home to nuclear weapons program (plus insta-poster!, updated)
UPDATE 11/30: Confirmation that the explosion was at a nuclear facility. New blog post here.
FARS News is reporting on a huge explosion in Isfahan, Iran. No details yet.
Isfahan hosts a Nuclear Technology Center, a Uranium Conversion Facility and a Zirconium Production Plant that helps make alloys for nuclear reactors.
According to the article, it happened at 2:40 AM.
For the occasion, a poster:
FARS News is reporting on a huge explosion in Isfahan, Iran. No details yet.
Isfahan hosts a Nuclear Technology Center, a Uranium Conversion Facility and a Zirconium Production Plant that helps make alloys for nuclear reactors.
According to the article, it happened at 2:40 AM.
For the occasion, a poster:
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