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October 24th, 2009, 07:55 AM
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| IRAN to Open QOM Nuclear Site to UN Inspectors.
Or so it says.
Apparently Iran is worried that recent releases and press covering are intended to prepare public opinion for some actions.
And we still don't know what exactly is promised and how those promises will be kept. Quote:
VIENNA - Early Sunday, if all goes as planned, U.N. nuclear inspectors will travel to a military base near Qom, Iran, for a first look at one of the country's most closely guarded nuclear secrets. Inside bunkers dug into the side of a mountain, the visitors will be escorted through a nearly completed uranium plant that Iran's president has termed "very ordinary."
In interviews, intelligence officials from the United States and allied nations said their scrutiny of the Qom site was longer and deeper than previously acknowledged, and included acquiring detailed plans on how the facility would be outfitted and operated.
Intercepted communications revealed a key piece of data: Iranian plans to place only 3,000 centrifuge machines in the plant. That number is too small to furnish fuel for a civilian power plant, but just big enough to supply Iran annually with up to three bombs' worth of weapons-grade fuel, the former officials said.
| Iran site spurs U.S. to rethink assessment - Washington Post- msnbc.com
One can wonder what was happening here: Quote: Iran Nuclear Monitor Dies Mysteriously
Mark Hosenball
Police in Austria are investigating the mysterious death of a British nuclear monitoring expert. Early news reports said that Timothy Hampton, who worked for an international monitoring unit called the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), died after falling 12 stories in a building in the Vienna International Center, one of the United Nations' main office complexes in Europe.
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Some news reports said that Hampton had been involved in the current round of negotiations between Iran, the U.S., and several other Western countries regarding Tehran's controversial nuclear program. However, his participation in the Iran talks could not be immediately confirmed, and a former U.N. official who worked at the Vienna complex said that officials who worked for the CTBTO were normally not supposed to have any involvement with the work of the IAEA, which is based in the same complex and is at the center of diplomatic discussions between the West and Iran.
| Iran Nuclear Monitor Dies Mysteriously - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com
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October 25th, 2009, 11:54 PM
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| Today is Sunday. Day the Inspectors go in..
Gee..wonder what they found?
Stuffed ballot boxes?
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