Nadene Goldfoot
Iran is known to develop missile, nuclear and drone technology at Parchin. IAEA inspectors are routinely denied access to the site which lies about 50km southeast of Tehran.
Quadcopter suicide drones launched from inside Iran this week attacked the key Parchin military and nuclear complex, according to anonymous Iranian and US sources cited by the New York Times and on May 28, 2022. The attack in which an engineer was killed was officially described by Iran’s defense ministry as an “incident.” The statement said one of the ministry’s research units in the Parchin area was hit and the engineer was a “martyr.”
According to reports published in Russia, apparently based on information developed by the Russian Federal Security Service, Parchin, 30 kilometers south-west of Tehran, was the site for the implementation of a variety of defense projects. Parchin was the center of the Defense Industries Organization's (DIO) chemical industry (production of explosives, fuel, etc.), and, possibly, the home of the main producers of the Oghab and Nazeat missiles.
The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) quarterly report also says "extensive activities" -- a reference to suspected sanitization efforts -- at Iran's Parchin military complex will hamper its investigation of possible past nuclear weapons development work there, if inspectors are granted access.
The IAEA reported in 2011 that Iran placed "a large explosives containment vessel" in Parchin in 2000 and constructed a building around it. The facilities were designed to contain the detonation of up to 70 kilograms of high explosives -- something the IAEA called "relevant to the development of an explosive nuclear device."
The implication that the IAEA would risk its own international standing and funding in order to cut a sweetheart deal with Iran is a bizarre one, particularly given the 2010 Wikileaks revelation that IAEA head Yukiya Amano, a Japanese diplomat and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (July 2009 – 2019). Amano previously served as an international civil servant for the United Nations and its subdivisions. has been “solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision” with respect to the Iran talks.He died on 18 July 2019 at the age of 72. Associated Press reported the cause of death as cancer.
Since that report, the IAEA has sought to send inspectors to the site of the suspected building but have been denied access by Iran to that part of the military base. In recent months, the agency also obtained information that indicates Iran has been busy cleaning up the suspected site, including tearing down some buildings and removing soil. The last effort by the IAEA to convince Iran to let inspectors visit the site -- where Iran denies clean-up activities are taking place -- broke down in June 2012 when Tehran accused the agency of acting like an "intelligence organization." That was 10 years ago.
"It was on September 27, 2018: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday described what he said was a secret atomic warehouse in Tehran and accused Europe of appeasing Iran as he sought to rally support for U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew his “red line” for Iran’s nuclear program on Thursday despite a U.S. refusal to set an ultimatum, saying Tehran will be on the brink of a nuclear weapon in less than a year." Not only that, but the Democrats walked out of the auditorium when Netanyahu delivered this information, having lunch appointments. Iran has had almost 4 years since then to continue developing towards their goal. They have made constant threats against Israel, which is why Netanyahu felt he needed to warn the world of their hatred and aims.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Netanyahu showed an aerial photograph of the Iranian capital marked with a red arrow and pointed to what he said was a previously secret warehouse holding nuclear-related material. He argued this showed Iran still sought to obtain nuclear weapons, despite its 2015 agreement with world powers to curb its program in exchange for loosening of sanctions.
Netanyahu spoke 4-1/2 months after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, arguing it did too little to rein in Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and triggering the resumption of U.S. economic sanctions on Iran.
Netanyahu said the site contained some 15 kg (33 pounds) of radioactive material that has since been moved, and he called on the U.N. atomic agency to inspect the location immediately with Geiger counters.
“I am disclosing for the first time that Iran has another secret facility in Tehran, a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and materiel from Iran’s secret nuclear program,” Netanyahu said. Using a magic marker to literally draw a red line on a diagram of a bomb, Netanyahu said Iran was 70 percent of the way towards developing a bomb. He said the international community must stop Iran before it could complete another 20 percent, a process of creating medium enriched uranium.
The final 10 percent could be completed in a few short weeks, he said. Once the uranium enrichment was completed, he said, Iran could easily assemble the necessary fuse in a secret location no bigger than a classroom. He said that location would be difficult to find in a country that is half the size of Europe.
Since then, reported on April 13, 2021, Iran's nuclear facilities have had a blackout, blamed on Israel, on a Sunday. It housed centrifuges used for uranium enrichment. It was a key Natanz facility, a nuclear facility in Iran hit by "sabotage" a day after it unveiled new uranium enrichment equipment, the country's top nuclear official says. Ali Akbar .This attack on Iranian nuclear site damaged their centrifuge production facility. Despite Tehran’s claims to the contrary, opposition sources say attempted sabotage reported earlier in the day was successful, hitting complex previous sanctioned by the US, UN.
Remember the problems the nuclear facility had with their computers? Iran: Computer Malware Sabotaged Uranium Centrifuges. In what appears to be the first confirmation that the Stuxnet malware hit Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that malicious computer code launched by “enemies” of the state had sabotaged centrifuges used in Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program. The surprise announcement at a press conference coincided with news that two of Iran’s […]
Just 6 days ago, Assailants on a motorcycle shot and killed the Quds Force member in front of his home in the Iranian capital.
He was the IRGC officer, who planned attacks against Jews, Israelis worldwide and killed in Tehran. The IRGC called the assassination a “criminal terrorist act of the counter-revolution and elements related to global arrogance,” a term often used to refer to the US and Israel. The Iranian Nour News Agency called the assassination a redline, saying it “changes many equations” and that those responsible would “pay a heavy price.”
According to reports, Khodayari was eliminated for preemptive reasons as he was actively planning attacks against Israel abroad in retaliation for the death of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran International in London reported on Monday. Khodayari was also behind a number of terror plots against Israelis in the past in Europe, Africa and Asia, including the car bomb targeting an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi, India in 2012, which wounded the diplomat’s wife. One of his attempts involved a plot to assassinate Rabbi Schneur Segal, the Chabad shaliach in Baku, as well as the Israeli ambassador r”l.
I would say that Colonel Khodayari just paid a heavy price for his actions. Iran is feeling the pain of their plans against Jews everywhere, Iran, it doesn't have to be just Israel who acts. We have Jews who are fed up with being your hunted -down prey.
As far as that goes, Israel has been fighting against the attacks by Iran on 4 fronts: spies, terrorist attacks, Proxies of Iran in surrounding states like Syria, Cyber attacks, and Israel has been on top of it all. James Bond has nothing on Israel. Israel is an adversary that you can't topple.
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https://www.debka.com/mivzak/nyt-irans-parchin-nuclear-site-was-hit-by-suicide-drones/
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/parchin.htm
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