Iran nuclear site deep underground challenges West as talks on reviving atomic deal have stalled

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JON GAMBRELL an hour ago

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch U.S. weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery analyzed by The Associated Press.

The photos and videos from Planet Labs PBC show Iran has been digging tunnels in the mountain near the Natanz nuclear site, which has come under repeated sabotage attacks amid Tehran’s standoff with the West over its atomic program.

With Iran now producing uranium close to weapons-grade levels after the collapse of its nuclear deal with world powers, the installation complicates the West’s efforts to halt Tehran from potentially developing an atomic bomb as diplomacy over its nuclear program remains stalled.

Completion of such a facility “would be a nightmare scenario that risks igniting a new escalatory spiral,” warned Kelsey Davenport, the director of nonproliferation policy at the Washington-based Arms Control Association. “Given how close Iran is to a bomb, it has very little room to ratchet up its program without tripping U.S. and Israeli red lines. So at this point, any further escalation increases the risk of conflict.”



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-natanz-uranium-enrichment-underground-project-04dae673fc937af04e62b65dd78db2e0

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[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. AP knows Iran has been..close to a bomb...since the last century.

And neglects again to mention how America shattered a contract with impunity.

And neglects to mention the thousands of nukes the West clings to with a colonist fervor that has never disappeared.

Wouldn’t you be cautious negotiating a deal with deal breaking nation on the exact same subject? A nation that consistently attempts to make its citizens hate your citizens?

What was wrong with the old Obama led international deal, just sign that one!??

And how close is this weapons grade uranium anyway, been close since the last century also, if my single persons port memory serves…would think 🤔 a news aggregator would have a similar memory.

Appears the slaughter of a farmers family by the runaway trigger happy Pentagon in Syria has been forgotten…ooops! We thought was terrorist…better luck next time with the mass murder crimes not being caught! Maybe a long independent investigation by …the killers?

More warpanic porn by AP, must be quiet warmongering week.

Read between the lines….find lot of gaps to fill in the fact adverse war happy western media.

How is the West challenged?? Because it can’t destroy something?? Nonsense on top of deception.

AP sucks.

[EX500rider]

3. Iran is under UN sanctions for it's nuclear program

Iran faces international sanctions for a clandestine nuclear program that the IAEA and major powers say violate its treaty obligations. When Iran acceded to the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1967, it promised to never become a nuclear-armed state.

In the early 2000s, indications of work on uranium enrichment renewed international concerns, spurring several rounds of sanctions from the United Nations, the EU, and the U.S. government. These international sanctions have sought to block Iran’s access to nuclear-related materials and put an economic vise on the Iranian government to compel it to end its uranium-enrichment program and other nuclear-weapons-related efforts.


https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/international-sanctions-iran

You may not think a bunch of fundamentalists Mullah's with nuclear weapons is no big deal, the rest of the world does not agree.

[EX500rider]

2. Real deep won't help

You just have to collapse the entrance and air duct tunnels and any electrical transmissions lines leading to it.