29 Mar 2024
Sunday 27 January 2013 - 22:16
Story Code : 18635

Huge explosion at Iran nuclear site not confirmed

fordo nuclear facilityYediot Ahronot reported. on Friday that former Iranian intelligence officials who defected to the West claim that Irans underground Fordo uranium enrichment facility has been almost completely demolished, and hundreds of staff members are at this moment trapped underground, This has to be the worst blow to Irans nuclear ambitions so far.
WND, an American news website affiliated with the right, reported Friday that a mysterious explosion has destroyed a significant portion of Irans Fordo nuclear facility considered Tehrans most fortified facility.

Yediot cites WND as reporting on Friday that former Iranian Republican Guard commander Reza Halili, recruited by the CIA and who defected to the US, claimed that Iranian sources reported a huge explosion last Monday at Fordos centrifuges room. They claim that the explosion destroyed a significant portion of the facility and that 240 workers were trapped underground. WND emphasized that the report has not been corroborated by any Western source.

According to Yediot, Halili says that The blast shook facilities within a radius of three miles. Security forces have enforced a no-traffic radius of 15 miles, and the Tehran-Qom highway was shut down for several hours after the blast.

By The Jewish Press

 

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