From CNN's Jennifer Rizzo
New satellite images of an Iranian military base indicate Iranian efforts to cover evidence of a nuclear weapons program, according to a Washington-based think tank.
The DigitalGlobe images, obtained by the Institute for Science and International Security, were taken last week of Iran's Parchin military base, where international inspectors suspect Iran may have conducted explosives tests connected with a possible nuclear weapons program.
Two small buildings at the suspected testing site have been destroyed. Tracks made by heavy machinery supposedly used in the demolition are visible, according to the institute's analysis.
Wide view image of the suspected high explosive testing site showing extensive evidence of earth displacement activity.
The group says suspected cleanup activity was also seen in satellite images from April. The two buildings were intact in the previous images.
"The newest image raises concerns that Iran is attempting to raze the site prior to allowing an IAEA visit," said the report. "The razing of the two buildings may also indicate that Iran has no intention to allow inspectors access soon."
The International Atomic Energy Agency has requested access to the site, which the Iranians have so far denied. In a letter sent to Iran in May, the agency expressed concern that extensive activity observed in "buildings of interest" could hamper the inspection process.
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I'm a bit suspicious of this. First of all, blog post. Second of all, "Washington based think tank" conveniently omits what sort of think tank, which actually makes me trust it less than I would if it said "conservative think tank." Third, no link to the actual report. Fourth, it seems the most damning accusation is that it's on a military base. Which definitely isn't where we developed our test reactors. We did that in Manhattan, right?
Still, something to think about. I'd like to see this confirmed or dismissed by Panetta.
I love how the government releases these antiquated, low resolution photos to the public when you know their best satellites can probably see scars and scratches on your face.
This reminds me of the so called "evidence" we saw before the Iraq war. How many WMDs we find there again?
This article is BULLSHIT. These photos prove NOTHING.
Tell that to the rabid members of israels ruling party, Likud.
It's not "these" photos that confirm the nuclear programs. It's the photos that are so clear you can read the porn magazine the guy by the truck is jacking off to. Hahahahahahaha
Israel is the only country to commit crimes against the US, between them and Iran.
Israel attacked the USS Liberty for an HOUR, killing 30 brave sailors.
This new virus is fitting, seeing how the nation it hails from is itself, a virus. Israel controls the US, as you would a puppet…
Michael Mukasey Recently appointed as US Attorney General. Mukasey also was the judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
Michael Chertoff Former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, at the Justice Department; now head of Homeland Security.
Richard Perle One of Bush’s foreign policy advisors, he is the chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. A very likely Israeli government agent, Perle was expelled fromSenatorHenry Jackson’s office in the 1970′s after the National Security Agency (NSA) caught him passing Highly-Classified (National Security) documents to the Israeli Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm, Soltam. Perle came from one the above mentionedpro-Israelthinktanks,the AEI.Perle is one ofthe leading pro-Israeli fanatics leading this Iraq war mongering within the administration and now in the media.
Paul Wolfowitz Former Deputy Defense Secretary, and member of Perle’s Defense Policy Board, in the Pentagon. Wolfowitz is a close associate of Perle, and reportedly has close ties to the Israeli military. His sister lives in Israel. Wolfowitz came from the above mentioned Jewish thinktank, JINSA. Wolfowitz was the number two leader within the administration behind this Iraq war mongering. He later was appointed head of the World Bank but resigned under pressure from World Bank members over a scandal involving his misuse of power.
Lawrence (Larry) Franklin The former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian policy issues who worked in the office of UndersecretaryofDefense for Policy Douglas Feithand reported directly to Feith’s deputy, William Luti, was sentenced January 20, 2006, “to more than 12 years in prison for giving classified information to an Israeli diplomat” and members of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
We are being played. Like a fiddle comrades.
You forgot to take your Med's again,
Prove something he posted to be wrong.
Now, is your mom also your sister?
I think so...
I heard Joe Joe fucks little boys....
Stop Joe. That's bad.
Indra i commend your knowledge of foreign affairs. But the truth is the middle east has been at war with each other for thousands of years. Sending any american over there to fight any of THEIR wars is atrocious. Let them kill each other, its what they do. If congress or the president want to go to war...PICK UP A WEAPON!!! Im done fighting.
Pretty interesting stuff there Indra, and 90% seems true enough but what's sad about all this is that the highest echelons of the US government cannot do much about it and that is also a fact! We'v gone far too deep to cut off the link to Israel, it would be the end of us if we do. I know most of you who are linked to this subject tangibly might be laughing already.
dont forget the lavon affair!
>>Michael Chertoff Former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, at the Justice Department; now head of Homeland Security>>>
Wrong.
What a load of crap!
USS Liberty was concluded to be a case of mistaken identity 45 YEARS AGO, but is still being used today by Islamists and other hate mongers like Indra here to try and prove that Israel is USA's enemy. What a load of BS. Why don't we talk about 9/11? Who attacked the US there?
The rest is pure conspiracy theories and insinuation.
Jews in the American administration is a problem? Jews are some of the smartest, most educated people on this planet, and always achieved high positions in every organization and government they were involved with. To say it's some sort of a Zionist conspiracy is pure hate talk.
Last time I checked Israel is a friendly democratic nation and never attacked anyone unless it was attacked first.
Islamists and Arabs however created 9/11. No conspiracy theory can change that.
Why don't we talk about the barbaric crimes against humanity being committed RIGHT NOW in Syria and Iran?
Indra refers to his "Comrades" here. Is he a communist or an Islamic hate monger. I can't tell...
The conclusion of mistaken identity is fallacious. Unless Israel was in the business of hiring blind, retarded fighter pilots and torpedo gunners, it strains credulity. It's like mistaking a merchant marine frigate for an American aircraft carrier.
Fallacious? Really? Were you part of the two independent inquiries, one led by the US which concluded that? And you have some new evidence to refute the 45 year old investigations?
And what could possibly be the motive of Israel to attack a friendly ship? No, It makes total sense that this was a very tragic mistake, perhaps the Liberty was thought to be an enemy ship disguised as an America ship, one of many tragic friendly fire incidents which happen in wars (this one during the war of 1967 which was started by the Arabs).
Israel has not only apologized but also compensated the families of the fallen, always trying to do the right thing.
Indra...in da toilet ...drinking the water
OKAY iran now that you have cleaned the nuclear site, it's time for all of you to take a bath, yep it's personal hygiene time. Get some baking soda and a rag put baking soda on rag dip in water and begin brushing your nasty mouth, I smell your breath from there all the way to the United States. Now get a tub don't think you have showers fill it with scalding hot water, undress and get some LYE soap and begin scrubbing your nasty bodies, burn your clothes put some of those things the women wear on and get a shave and a freaking haircut and THEN we may be able to talk, we still not going to buy oil from you though. By the way let's start before ALL the above by denouncing islam and BURNing the qurun.
Wow.
Where is your personal care assistant??
She will be fired for letting a retard run rampant...
I agree, Indra.
Everett, you've got to check yourself before you post comments like that.
Even if Iran did have nukes (which there isn't a single shred of credible evidence to suggest they do) would they be stupid enough to nuke a country with hundreds or thousands of more advanced nukes (assuming they have a delivery system which they don't)? I am more concerned about Israel's hundreds of real confirmed nukes than I am about Iran's fairy tale nuke.
Exactly.
Israels generals and heads of intelligence, have both said Iran is NOT building a nuke.
Indra is making this up he goes along.
Every single general and intelligence agent in Israel is alarmed by Iran's attempt to expand their nuclear program and not allowing inspectors into the sensitive areas of their sites.
Funny how Indra likes to attack Israel at every opportunity and then turn around and use them to justify some outrageous claim he comes up with.
I think Indra is an Iranian troll.
WEAPONS OF MASS . . . ? well better wait a little while and really get some prof.
The proof will come when we see the mushroom cloud over Israel.
Ya, the sky is falling pussy. Crawl into a hole coward.
My you are paranoid!
in 1968 the united states gave iran 5.88 kg of weapons grade uranium. in the early '70's we gave them another 5.88kgs. this is enough for a small atomic bomb. we have been waiting nearly half a century for a mushroom cloud to appear over isreal. how much longer do you think we will have to wait?
Didnt we have pretty solid evidence that Iraq had and was building weapons of mass destruction too?
No – we had manufactured evidence spoonfed to us that even most CIA analysts thought was incorrect....
But hey – I know what you mean – hehe
Let's wait for the fireball this time for confirmation.
Put down the gameboy....and step into the real world.
Yeah! Let's invade Iraq. What? We all ready did!
I dont know what to believe on this one. The Institute for Science and International Security has a lot of dirt on India and Israel. Seems like they are doing a lot of wheeling and dealing in selling and buying nuclear technologies. I wouldnt suprise me if Iran got some of their know how to build a bomb from Israeli middle-men. CNN is defenitely doing one-side reporting. They should of also mention the countries violating laws against exporting nuclear weapon technologies. Check out there website and look at the who the donars are.
You do sound pretty confused.
India and Israel are friendlies. Iran is not. It's as simple as that.
no confusion. i know that. the institute is saying there are invovled in illegal nuclear techology transfer to unspecified countires who they didnt name in the report. i get it that india and israel will trade but its not talking about them trading among themselves but to unnamed potential foes to the united states. go to there website and read.
"where international inspectors suspect Iran may have conducted explosives tests connected with a possible nuclear weapons program."
Well at least this sounds credible enough. "suspect" "may" "possible" or... totally legit and innocuous conventional weapons facility. I think there are more than a few sites (Area 51 for example) the US would be hesitant to allow any international inspectors access to. As someone noted this is pretty obviously propaganda and not hard news.
Watch out!! They are moving DIRT!!!! RUN!!!......
I say nuke them and take thier land like the good old days and just like we should have done 10 years ago to iraq but no our elected officals are just sissys
I say your a dumb bitch.
And I'm right.
I say Indra is an Iranian troll
go ahead and make their day..............
Israel really is a nation of criminals...
And the Iranians are trust worthy? Arming the Syrians against their own people....arming and funding Hezbollah and destroying Lebanon in the process of making them a puppet state...
laughable your comment
Israel is supporting terrorists within Iran and turkey.
Iran just rescued Americans from pirates. So yea they are better.
Iran has not started a war outside of their country in at least two hundred years! So pick on someone else.
Glenn- So directing Hezbollah to attack Israel in 2006 doesn't count? They have to directly get involved is that it?
We all know Iran is building a nuclear arsenal to destroy Israel. Israel may have nuclear capabilities but they are for defense only. These are facts.
Proven lies. Israel has committed far greater crimes than Iran ever has.
Iran just rescued American merchants.
Israel kills our sailors.
50% correct. Only for :"leverage" and prestige in the Arab Gulf region, primarily directed at Saudi Arabia.
Iran is just as bad as Israel. Their support of terrorists like Hezbollah are right along side the efforts of Israel in Turkey and Iran. I clearly remember the summer of 2006 when the IAEA starting pressuring Iran on its nuclear program and at the direction of Iran, Hezbollah starting to lob rockets into Israel to divert the world away from the "attention" they were getting...what was the result? The killing of thousands of Lebanese civilians, Iran knowing full well the reprocussions of their directed actions. In addition, I've seen the reports of verified Iranian manufactured explosive material utilized in IEDs used by insurgents in Iraq to kill not only U.S. military servicemembers but thousands of Iraqi civlians, and it still goes on today. So no, they're not better, just Persian instead of Jewish.
Iran beheads people, stones women, hangs people in public squares, executes gays, denies the holocaust, threatens Israel and burns flags of the US, and Israel is criminal?...
Troll alert!
Would it be IRONIC if CNN Jihadi boys were all gay?
Ate you looking for a date, fag boy??
Lol nobody is buying the propaganda CNN, give it up.
Yeah the satellite images are lying....man you're an idiot.
You must be the last id0t left on the planet who has never heard of PhotoShop. Oh yeah, a photo is rock solid evidence. M0r0n.
James' response should remind you, half the nation has below average intelligence.
That half are called democRATS.
Wow, a conservative resorting to geniusly clever name calling. How unpredicted.
You might like this:
alternet.org/story/154082/conservatism_thrives_on_low_intelligence_and_poor_information
I say let the Isrealis take the towely's out, once and for all!
We all know there are a lot of Jwes in Florida Dave.
The Israelis live in constant fear and should!
Why is that?
Let them make a mistake, then glass them over for it. I don't like politics with bullies.
Oh, Christ...I mean Abrihim.. I mean...oh whatever. I can't wait til organized religion becomes extinct. Then we can actually focus on the things that matter. Think about it...what great things would be possible if religion wasn't a factor? (Queue Micheal Jackson music)
Iran's nuclear program has nothing to do with religion but everything to do with being the dominant power in the region.
Iran, the dominant power in the region? I think the Saudis could kick there ass. They have a much better Air force too.
Dan: The US Army is in Saudi Arabia to keep Iran out. That is our oil, right? If Iran is attack guess where they will strike and we will see oil at $300.00 a barrel instantly.
Atheism is the worst religion of them all.
Embarrassingly wrong.
And this surprises anyone?
Young Wolf,you are a smock and a potz!
Pretty sure your mom is also your sister.....
What evidence is the world looking for?. Iran is partialy nueclear weapon equipt. Thats why sanctions against iran are out there. The international community should not be shocked when iran declares mass distruction if any country attacks them. Good luck.
Iran declare "mass destruction" of Israel every day. Then again, we shouldn't expect much from those believers in their pedophile prophet.
Iran's counter attack will only be on Saudi oil.
Iran and Syria let the UN inspectors in so why do Da Zionist Jooz not let the UN in? America should be all over Da Jooz for not letting UN inspectors in and America should stop all welfare payments to Da Jooz until the UN is allowed in to Israhell. What a double standard Ameria lives by and neither Obama or Ram-knee seems to be adressing the issue. Which ever one does gets my vote, Da Jooz need to live by the laws of the world and America needs to stop welfare payments until they do..
SInce when have the israelis threatened other nations of mass extinction?
Since when has Iran? Just type that question in Google, do some d amn research.
easy find antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025
Just Googled "iran threatens israel with nukes"...lots of responses. 'Does not matter' can't google or type; so he really does not matter.
Lol, ok, so Iran threatens Israel with nukes its been consistently saying it doesn't have? You seem to be the product of war propaganda at its finest.
Moving past that, just typed it in your way... haha wow, not one response even remotely matches your search sentence.
I bet you're probably wishing you could delete your comment.
The US and Israel tried to get Iraq and Iran to exterminate each other and they tried. 500,000 dead on each side. We are really nice people. (?)
Your purposeful illiteracy irritates me. Can someone translate for me? I feel as though he may have something intelligent to say, but I can't understand.
Israel is the only country to commit crimes against the US, between them and Iran.
Israel attacked the USS Liberty for an HOUR, killing 30 brave sailors.
This new virus is fitting, seeing how the nation it hails from is itself, a virus. Israel controls the US, as you would a puppet…
Michael Mukasey Recently appointed as US Attorney General. Mukasey also was the judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
Michael Chertoff Former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, at the Justice Department; now head of Homeland Security.
Richard Perle One of Bush’s foreign policy advisors, he is the chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. A very likely Israeli government agent, Perle was expelled fromSenatorHenry Jackson’s office in the 1970′s after the National Security Agency (NSA) caught him passing Highly-Classified (National Security) documents to the Israeli Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm, Soltam. Perle came from one the above mentionedpro-Israelthinktanks,the AEI.Perle is one ofthe leading pro-Israeli fanatics leading this Iraq war mongering within the administration and now in the media.
Paul Wolfowitz Former Deputy Defense Secretary, and member of Perle’s Defense Policy Board, in the Pentagon. Wolfowitz is a close associate of Perle, and reportedly has close ties to the Israeli military. His sister lives in Israel. Wolfowitz came from the above mentioned Jewish thinktank, JINSA. Wolfowitz was the number two leader within the administration behind this Iraq war mongering. He later was appointed head of the World Bank but resigned under pressure from World Bank members over a scandal involving his misuse of power.
Lawrence (Larry) Franklin The former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian policy issues who worked in the office of UndersecretaryofDefense for Policy Douglas Feithand reported directly to Feith’s deputy, William Luti, was sentenced January 20, 2006, “to more than 12 years in prison for giving classified information to an Israeli diplomat” and members of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
We are being played. Like a fiddle comrades.
Scooter libby was also an Israeli FYI.
You make a great point my young friend.
We cannot tolerate this from a supposed ally.
"Comrades"?
What are you? A Communist or something? Yeah, you commies are so much better than Israel, hey I mean, it's not as though the Soviets killed 20 million people and the Chinese killed 55 million people right?
Get off your high horse, you sh1t stick.
Please, your ass has to borrow iq points to tie your shoe...
Fail.
Bitch..
If anyone is playing us it is the Saudis. Saudis committed the 9-11 attacks. Saudis provided the false information which led to the invasion of Iraq. Fight the real enemy.
Didn't the iranians capture and torture US embassy staff for over a year before Reagan was sworn in?
No one trusts the Iranians....No one
No crime from Iran eh? Listen Vlad, it seems to me you either have a selective memory or you've been drinking too much vodka tonight and have forgotten the Iranians held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days in 1979-81. A crime that violated centuries-old international law granting diplomats immunity from arrest and mistreatment in a foreign country. So which one is it? The vodka?
You seem to forget that Israel dropped napalm on our sailors aboard USS Liberty. Killed 30 .
Feeling dumb?
johhny... iranian STUDENTS. it was a criminal act by civilians, not an act by a government.
are you forgetting project ajax? that WAS the work of the us government.