"Diplomats: Iran Building Tunnels for Arms " Faux News

[TexasLawyer]

Break out those bunker busters, boys!

Diplomats: Iran Building Tunnels for Arms
Thursday, March 03, 2005

VIENNA, Austria — Fearing airstrikes, Iran is using reenforced materials and tunneling deep underground to store nuclear components — measures meant to make the facility resistant to "bunker busters" and other special weaponry, diplomats said Thursday.

The diplomats spoke as a 35-nation meeting of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency ended more than three days of deliberations focusing on Iran and North Korea, which are both accused of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

Among criticisms of Iran's nuclear-related activities, an review presented at the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (search) faulted Tehran for starting work on the tunnel at Isfahan without informing the agency beforehand.

The review said that — following agency prodding — Iran over the past few months has provided "preliminary design information" on the tunnel in the central city that is home to the country's uranium enrichment program. It said that construction began in September "to increase capacity, safety and security of nuclear material."
Asked for details on the tunnel, a diplomat familiar with Iran's dossier told The Associated Press that parts of it apparently would run as deep as half a mile below ground and would be constructed of hardened concrete and other reenforced materials.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149324,00.html

[sniffa]

1. that's enough evidence for me

invade!!!

[madrchsod]

2. they never say who the "diplomats" are.

got to love fox news....

[leftofcool]

3. Faux News said it................

I believe it and that settles it! <sarcasm off>

left of cool

[Tamarin]

4. Is *reenforced* a word?

I thought it was reinforced.

[politicaholic]

5. What fantastic reporting...

Diplomats, lots and lots of diplomats speaking anonymously to Faux News and only Faux News...oh, wait, didn't they also speak at a 35 nation 3 day forum on "Nukular" Energy?

The idiots are hiding something.

[Mahatma]

6. Who ever trusts Fox News?

Dears,

I have learned good journalism with editors of the New York Times and The Herald Tribune. They told me, and they ´re American, that "Fox News" is specialist in fabricating easy to read news that most of the time follows government interests or someone´s insterest who pays them.

Whatsoever. Why would we be surprised that Iran is building such a tunnel after receiving threats of war by the US?

Present US politics only encourage terrorism to spread. US politics also spread the sublime message that we as people need to take refuge in weapons. This gives a wrong picture of what humanity should be developing towards... let´s keep that in mind!



"There is a huge difference between danger and fear"
by Author Paulo Coelho
http://www.warriorofthelight.com
http://www.paulocoelho.com

[TheFarseer]

7. Give it up!

Only the most rabid war mongers want to invade Iran. If * went ahead anyway, I think you would see his approval numbers in single digits and millions of people marching in the streets demanding his head on a platter.

[4_Legs_Good]

8. Like all those tunnels under Bagdhad that Saddam was hiding his weapons in

You know the tunnels. The ones that everyone was always talking about. That incredible network of tunnels.

You know, nobody's mentioned them since mid 2002.

It's like they just disappeared!

david

[htuttle]

9. They'll just re-use the same info-graphics

In fact, I think the little artist conception drawings of the 'underground complex' under Baghdad were reused from previously being the 'underground complex at Tora Bora'.

[Guckert]

10. Do the tunnels go under Saddam's palaces, where the WMD are stored?

I dont think the World will fall for the Bush lies a second time.
remember a great man once said
" fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 :dunce:

[Moderator]

11. locking, Not Latest Breaking News

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