Revealed! Evidence Iran crossed nuclear 'red line'

 

Revealed! Evidence Iran crossed nuclear 'red line'

Source reveals details about enriched uranium, plutonium stockpiles

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Iranian scientists are working on nuclear warheads - and trying to perfect

them - at an underground site unknown to the West, according to a

high-ranking intelligence officer of the Islamic regime.

 

The officer, who has been assigned to the Ministry of Defense, not only

provided the coordinates to this vast site but also details of its

operation.

 

The site, approximately 14 miles long and 7.5 miles wide, consists of two

facilities built deep into a mountain along with a missile facility that is

surrounded by barbed wire, 45 security towers and several security posts.

 

The new secret nuclear site, named Quds (Jerusalem), is almost 15 miles from

another site, previously secret but exposed in 2009, the Fordow nuclear

facility. The power to this site comes from the same source as Fordow - the

Shahid Rajaei power plant - with high power towers surrounding the site.

 

Construction of the site started about the same time as Fordow, and in the

second half of 2010 all industrial tests were completed. The site became 60

percent operational in 2011.

 

Gen. Ahmad Vahid Datjerdi, who works in the supreme leader's office to

protect the regime's information and counterintelligence, manages the site.

His deputy, Hojatolislam Ramezani, was appointed to the protection of

intelligence at the Defense Ministry after several leaks about the country's

nuclear operations.

 

Quds, built about 375 feet under the mountain and accessible by two large

entrances reinforced with concrete, has 12 emergency exit tunnels and

spreads around the mountain.

 

The site has a capacity of 8,000 centrifuges and currently has three

operational chambers with 19 cascades of 170 to 174 centrifuges enriching

uranium. As of three months ago, the source said, there were 76 kilograms of

20 percent enriched uranium stock at the site and 48 kilograms of over 40

percent enriched uranium.

 

Though the regime has long succeeded in enriching uranium to 20 percent,

which is 80 percent of the way to weapons grade, enriching to over 20

percent would be a clear sign of an intention of building a nuclear bomb.

 

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One chamber is specifically allocated to laser enrichment research and

development, and Iranian scientists have seen great progress, the source

said.

 

The most significant information provided by the source is that the regime

has succeeded in not only enriching to weapons grade but has converted the

highly enriched uranium into metal.

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 Image, Quds secret nuclear facility

 

Moreover, the source said, successfully using the metal in making a neutron

reflector indicates the final stages for a nuclear weapons design that would

be a two-stage, more sophisticated and much more powerful nuclear bomb.

 

Regime scientists are also working on a plutonium bomb as a second path to

becoming nuclear-armed, the source said, and they have at this site 24

kilograms of plutonium, which is sufficient for several atomic bombs.

 

The scientists are at the last stage of putting together a bomb warhead, he

said, and the scientists in their design for a plutonium bomb are using

polonium and beryllium, which would serve as the trigger and the tamper,

respectively, for the bomb.

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 Image, Close up of the two entrances into the Quds

nuclear facility

 

Iranian scientists, aided by North Koreans, are also working on new ways to

have more miniaturized and more powerful atomic bombs, he said.

 

Adjacent to the Quds facility is another facility dubbed "Martyr Mughniyah"

after the Lebanese terrorist Imad Mughniyah, the source said. Personnel at

this site work on missiles and warheads.

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 image, Imad Mughniyah missile and warhead facility

 

The regime is building its Shahab 3 ballistic missiles there using

compressed composite carbon material, which originated at an American

company, he said. The company manufactures advanced composite materials and

structural parts. Iran purchased the carbon material through an intermediary

in Turkey, the source said. The material makes it possible to have a longer

missile range with larger warheads.

 

The regime is working on 17 Shahab 3 missiles in preparation of arming them

with nuclear warheads, the source said. The operational and technical aspect

of the delivery system is 80 percent completed, he said

 

The regime, aided by North Korea, is also working on neutron warheads that

could be used as super EMP weapons for electromagnetic pulse attacks.

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 image, The road connecting both Quds nuclear facility to

Imad Mughniyah missile and warhead facility

 

Overhead images clearly show this site has over 380 missile depots and

launching pads, facilities that can house large ballistic missiles, most

likely Shahab 3 and possibly North Korean Taepodong II (ICBMs). The source

added that this missile site is the center of the regime's defensive and

offensive strategies and supports other missile sites: the Imam Ali near the

city of Khoram Abad in the Lorestan province and the one in Tabriz in the

province of East Azarbaijan - to be used in any attack on Israeli and U.S.

military bases in the Middle East.

 

This facility provides the missiles for Hezbollah, the source said, and,

with the help of North Koreans, is mass producing a new generation of napalm

bombs to be shipped to the terrorist group while at the same time working on

white phosphorus bombs to be used for terrorist acts.

 

The images also show a military airfield for the sole use of officers at

this facility.

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 image, the vast missile site

 

The source noted that for this calendar year, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has

allocated $22 billion toward the country's nuclear bomb and missile

programs, funded by entities under the control of the supreme leader.

 

Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the Task Force on National and

Homeland Security, an expert on nuclear strategy and weapons who served on

several strategic congressional commissions and in the CIA, reviewed the

imagery and human intelligence (HUMINT) and called for a congressional

hearing.

 

"The newly discovered underground complex looks like the kind of enormous

complexes built by the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War and by Russia today,"

Pry said. "Heavily hardened and fortified and supplied with huge amounts of

electric power, by what appear to be 765-kilovolt electric power lines, the

imagery suggests a top-priority military site. Nuclear-weapons programs

consume vast amounts of electricity."

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 image, missile depots

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 image, a close up shot of missile depots

 

The location of the site amid an Iranian missile armory, protected by a vast

array of defensive and offensive missiles, is consistent with the HUMINT

reporting that the site is for the final stages of nuclear weapons

development, he said, and that the complex appears to be the most heavily

protected site in Iran.

 

"The HUMNINT reporting claims the complex is for both the final stages of

uranium enrichment - indeed, that Iran has crossed the 'red line' and is

converting uranium hexafluoride gas into weapons-grade metal - and for

actual bomb fabrication," Pry said. "And the source gets sophisticated

engineering details of nuclear weapons design right, even though the source

is allegedly a non-expert.

 

"The source claims Iran now has all the materials for building nuclear

weapons, such as weapons-grade uranium, plutonium as well as polonium and

beryllium," he said. "One can infer from the descriptions some design

characteristics of parts for making implosion plutonium weapons and

two-stage atomic weapons. The latter is a design far more sophisticated than

the Hiroshima bomb that could have a much higher yield and possibly produce

an explosion 50 times greater than Hiroshima," according to Dr. Pry.

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 image, missile silos, the size suggests large ballistic

missiles such as Shahab 3 or the North Korean Taepodong II (ICBMs)

 

Fritz Ermarth, who served in the CIA and as chairman of the National

Intelligence Council, reviewed the imagery. "There is much work to be done

by imagery analysts on the photos Reza (Kahlili) has produced," he said.

"For example, is spoil from the tunneling visible? Does it tell us how

extensive the tunneling is? But taken as a package, this imagery strongly

suggests that Iran is working on what we used to call an 'objective force.'

That is the objective of a deployed force of nuclear weapons on mobile

missiles, normally based in deep underground sites for survivability against

even nuclear attack, capable of rapid deployment. . They do suggest that

Iran is working the problem of becoming a nuclear weapons power in a serious

way, not just playing around for a few nukes on the shelf."

 

GoogleEarth 12-2012 image, mobile missile launchers spread out throughout

the mountainous terrain

 

Ambassador Henry Cooper, the former director of the Strategic Defense

Initiative and chief negotiator on nuclear and space treaties with the

Soviet Union, said, "Iran's apparent interest and investments in underground

systems are clearly coupled with its programs to develop and potentially

employ weapons of mass destruction in the face of armaments that may be

deployed against them, whether by Israel ('the little Satan') or the United

States ('the Great Satan'). Most notable is the fact that Iran has already

demonstrated its ability to launch satellites into low earth orbit. When

they also gain confidence in their nuclear weapons, they can then use those

launchers to place nuclear weapons in earth orbit and detonate them over

wherever they wish, creating an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that could level

its strategic playing field with all of Western civilization. This is

perhaps their ultimate asymmetric weapon. Far-fetched? I wouldn't bet

(against) it."

 

In an annual report to Congress Tuesday, U.S. National Intelligence Director

James Clapper stated that Iran could not produce weapons-grade uranium

without being detected. President Obama, in an interview last week with

Israel's channel 2 TV, said Iran is still "over a year or so" away from

building a nuclear weapon.

 

However, the International Atomic Energy Agency in its Feb, 21 report stated

that the Islamic regime has yet to provide access to several suspected

sites, including its Parchin military facility, which is suspected of

carrying out tests on nuclear bomb components.

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