Another clandestine tunnel has been discovered in Iran. Iran says that it needs to make tunnels for urban traffic, but Iran is widely suspected of hiding a nuclear weapons program, and The New York Times had already reported that the vast network of tunnels in Iran are suspicious. As a civil engineer, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has long played a prominent role in developing Iran's tunnel infrastructure, so that proves it: Tunnels=Nukes. The NY Times said so.
The experts point out that Iran has no need for urban tunnels, since it doesn't have enough cars to justify a tunnel, and could import tunnels cheaper than making them at home. This tunnel was too big or two small for cars -- but just the right size for nukes.
This particular "urban" tunnel was no doubt intended to be a secret until the Iranian authorities found out that US and Israeli intelligence had caught wind of it, so they decided to declare it to the public first, in an effort to pre-empt exposure. However, the tunnel was not declared to the IAEA previously, even though it could be used as part of a nuclear program. The Iranians have said they will allow IAEA inspections of the clandestine tunnel, but no doubt by the time the inspectors arrive the tunnels will have been swept clean of damning evidence of Iran's nuclear activities in this newly discovered clandestine tunnel.
Iran has continued to balk at coming clean over its nuclear program, in brazen disregard of the will of the international community to force Iran to give up her rights. David Albright of ISIS has calculated that this new urban tunnel could contain enough uranium for 1 or 2 nuclear weapons, and Gary Miholin of the Wisconsin Project for Arms Control has declared that the discovery of this clandestine tunnel in Iran shows that their nuclear program is far more advanced than previously thought.
Thus the only debate is whether Iran should be bombed now, or bombed soon, since bombing Iran is really the only option left to Obama if he wants to prove that he doesn't bow down before tyrants. Indeed, there may be hundreds of more similar tunnels that are still hidden, so the whole country of Iran should be carpet-bombed, just to be sure, and meanwhile the people of Iran must be supported (as well as bombed.)
And if you think that this is a joke, this is precisely how the US media covers Iran.
Can't anyone spread the rumour that the Iranians have been caught red-handed wiping out -- no, but the Hebrew writings on their centrifuges?
[Of course! And I heard, they eat small children!]
Posted by: k_w | February 04, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Not enough cars to justify a tunnel? They obviously haven't been caught in Tehran's traffic aka The Car Park.
Posted by: Ash | February 02, 2010 at 01:03 AM
I love what you say. All the tunnels in Iran are suspected of being clandestine arsenals of nuclear weapons, specifically designed by the Iranian President who has a doctorate in civil engineering!!!! "It is time to bomb the hell out of Iran" the Zionist prime minister screams!!!! Just a joke!!
Posted by: mb | February 01, 2010 at 09:34 PM
Cyrus,
Don't tell me that the NY Times are actually implying that the recent Navab tunnel is to be used to conceal weapons and such like, surely not even NY Times would be that clueless!! or would it?
[LOL!! Yes the NY Times WOULD do that.]
Posted by: Ray | February 01, 2010 at 02:19 PM