From the Bridge for Sale Department, via Reuters, with thanks to Rebecca Bynum:
NATANZ, Iran - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami took a group of journalists deep underground on Wednesday into the heart of a key nuclear plant which Washington wants dismantled and whose existence was kept secret until 2002.
About 30 local and foreign journalists visited Natanz uranium enrichment facility, 250 km (150 miles) south of Tehran, the centerpiece of a disputed atomic fuel drive which Tehran suspended under international pressure in late 2003.
The unprecedented visit was an unusual gesture of openness by the Islamic state. Reporters, allowed to photograph and film the unimposing complex, were later shown parts of another atomic facility in the central city of Isfahan.
See? Nothing to worry about. It was "unimposing."
Iran says its nuclear program is nothing for the world to fear and will only be used to generate much-needed electricity....
Reporters left the premises with promissory notes handing over them control of the Brooklyn Bridge in exchange for an undisclosed sum which informed sources described as "princely."
This is Iran's way of telling the US and Israel that all the critical equipment has been moved somewhere else.
Reporter? --How many of these where members of the International atomic energy commission (IAEC), or the association? Reporters-- yep theres a group of nuclear experts for you led by the Ayatollahs front man President Khatami. Watch for a splash of taquiyya, and kitman coming to your local newpapers soon.
What the tour guide forgot to mention is the real reason for needing such an expansion of atomically-produced electricity: the upcoming Big Iranian Changeover whereby Sharia courts will upgrade their currently-preferred methods of executing those who defy the ayatollahs from hanging and beheading to the far-more-humane Islamic Electric Chair.
Considering the demographics of the post-Khomeini Islamic Republic, with its many young and argumentative people in the universities and globally-connected businesses -who are causing gnawing worries for the regime, it is perfectly understandable that the mullahs will need MILLIONS of such electric chairs in order to maintain control over this potentially unruly bunch of men and women.
Islamic Heretic Zappers working day and night, for decades to come.
That explains it.
Otherwise I'd be shocked, shocked, by this report.
I saw this today on Iranian TV (English language version) which is shown daily (along with Arab and Israeli News) on Mosaic, World Link TV.
It was a Potemkin Village tour for sure.
50 handpicked reporters (who knows how many are Islamists) were given a guided tour and escorted through a subterranean portion of an empty and quite obviously old part of a facility, two stories underground.
The upshot of which, to even the partially sentient, was that the tour proved nothing at all.
Big Sleep you deserve your name, your brain is indeed asleep. Electrocution is a costly and ineffecient way of execution, Iran already resorts to stoning and hanging and old fashioned bullet in the back of the head goes on inside of Evin prison.
Giaour-
You sure you aren't an Iranian ayatollah?
Your pained literalism mirrors theirs.
If I thought Iran wanted anything from its atomic program BUT a nuclear bomb to threaten the Jews with, I wouldn't mock their transparently laughable lying bullsh*t with such a patently insane pseudo-rationale of my own in reply.
Nor would I be jeering in deadpan at their specious "need" for electricity -in a country floating on oil, packed with natural gas, and itself a veritable meeca for solar panels. Plus with their mountainous borders forming a perfect natural repository for thousands of more efficient and more cost-effective wind turbines.
The only answer to hysterically absurd liars is to take their fabulous flatulence to the n'th degree. And cause it to implode under the weight of its own ridiculousness.
You show a fool by amplifying their folly.