Iran’s Parchin Nuclear Myth Begins to Unravel

[polly7]

by Gareth Porter / September 24th, 2015

For well over three years, heavy doses of propaganda have created a myth about a purported steel cylinder for testing explosives located on a site at Iran’s Parchin military testing reservation. Iran was refusing to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the site while it sought to hide its past nuclear weapons-related work, according to that storyline.

Now Iran has agreed to allow the IAEA to visit the site at Parchin and environmental samples have already been collected at the site. However, the politically charged tale of the bomb test chamber of Parchin is beginning to unravel. IAEA director general Yukiya Amano entered the building in which the explosives chamber had supposedly been located on Monday and announced afterward that he found “no equipment” in the building.

That is surely a major story, in light of how much has been made of the alleged presence of the chamber at that location. But you may have missed that news, unless you happened to read the story by Jonathan Tirone of Bloomberg Business News, who was the only journalist for a significant news outlet who chose to lead with the story in his coverage of Amano’s Monday visit.

Israeli-supplied documents

The IAEA member state that had provided the information about a purported bomb cylinder was never identified by the IAEA. But IAEA director-general Mohamed El Baradei asserts in his memoirs that in the summer of 2009 Israel turned over to the IAEA a number of intelligence documents purporting to show that Iran had carried out nuclear weapons work “until at least 2007,” most of which consisted of purported Iranian official documents whose authenticity had been questioned by some of the agency’s technical experts.

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Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/09/irans-parchin-nuclear-myth-begins-to-unravel/

[Fred Sanders]

1. Both the President and Supreme Leader of Iran have called nuclear weapons an abomination..how many

leaders in heavily nuclear armed America or heavily nuclear armed Russia and France and Germany and Britain say the same?

When will the rogue nation of nuclear armed and un-inspected, still in denial Israel, still the only nuclear armed nation in the Middle East, get half the same condemnation applied to them?

The hypocrisy is too stunning to ever debate in America.

The greatest human rights violation in the history of mankind is keeping these world destroying weapons for any reason other than maybe blowing up a stray asteroid.

[polly7]

2. Well said, Fred. nt.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Definitely well said by Fred! n/t

[Purveyor]

3. "Israeli-supplied documents" were also provided in the lead up to the illegal invasion of Iraq... nt

[polly7]

4. Yes, I do remember that.

Bullshit .... like all the rest of the evidence for destroying it.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, polly.

[polly7]

6. Thank you, Uncle Joe. nt.

[Judi Lynn]

8. True, this does seem so deja vu-ish. You'd think they'd be ashamed to do it so soon. n/t

[cprise]

9. K&R