According to an article at WND, there was an enormous explosion in the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow that destroyed most of the underground facility and trapped at least 240 personnel deep underground. The article was written by Reza Kahlili who claims to have been a CIA spy in Iran as well as a counterterroism expert. Fordow is the home to about a quarter or the uranium enrichment centrifuges in operation by Iran. The facility is built far enough underground that it is safe from attack by normal bombs and could only possibly be destroyed by so called bunker buster bombs. According to the article, the blast was the result of sabotage and it was enormous, supposedly felt as far as three miles away. Again, according to the article, the reaction in Iran was also huge. The government shut down all traffic within fifteen miles of the site, began efforts to reach those trapped underground, and convened an emergency meeting of government security officials.
I keep saying "according to the article", because I still cannot confirm if this story is true or even partly accurate. Not a single major news organization has picked up the story. It has been repeated at various websites, but, if the story is true, it should have been picked up by now by all sorts of media around the world. After all, if this story is accurate, it is enormously important news. Just imagine that the most secure Iranian nuclear facility which houses a big chunk of Iran's enriched uranium has been destroyed, trained personnel have been lost, the enriched uranium has been scattered or at least burried under thousands of tons of rubble. And all this happened at the site which Iran guards with more assets than just about any other.
So did this really happen? I hope so. It would be wonderful to think that the Israelis or the United States was able to damage the Iranian nuclear program to this extent. For those of you who are horrified at the possibility that the USA would attack an Iranian facility like this, I remind you that nearly a third of all American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan came as a result of IEDs built by Iran and secretly smuggled to enemy forces in those countries. Indeed, in both places "volunteers" from Iran played an important role in strengthening enemy forces. In other words, we already are involved in a secret war with Iran. It would be good for us to strike back after all the years of unanswered Iranian attacks.
I keep saying "according to the article", because I still cannot confirm if this story is true or even partly accurate. Not a single major news organization has picked up the story. It has been repeated at various websites, but, if the story is true, it should have been picked up by now by all sorts of media around the world. After all, if this story is accurate, it is enormously important news. Just imagine that the most secure Iranian nuclear facility which houses a big chunk of Iran's enriched uranium has been destroyed, trained personnel have been lost, the enriched uranium has been scattered or at least burried under thousands of tons of rubble. And all this happened at the site which Iran guards with more assets than just about any other.
So did this really happen? I hope so. It would be wonderful to think that the Israelis or the United States was able to damage the Iranian nuclear program to this extent. For those of you who are horrified at the possibility that the USA would attack an Iranian facility like this, I remind you that nearly a third of all American deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan came as a result of IEDs built by Iran and secretly smuggled to enemy forces in those countries. Indeed, in both places "volunteers" from Iran played an important role in strengthening enemy forces. In other words, we already are involved in a secret war with Iran. It would be good for us to strike back after all the years of unanswered Iranian attacks.
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