Iran's secret site is the missing piece in its nuclear puzzle

Iran's newly revealed second centrifuge plant hidden in a mountainside fits neatly into Tehran's nuclear program, as if it were a long-missing piece to a jigsaw puzzle that's almost complete.

That is because Western intelligence analysts and experts outside government have long suspected that if Iran wanted to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon, it would have to do so at a hidden facility. Known Iranian nuclear sites are too closely ... Full Story »

Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Christian Science Monitor

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by Derek Hawkins - Sep. 29, 2009

Not too deep, but an overall informative story on Iran's newly revealed nuclear facility. This echoes the point Scott Ritter made in today's Guardian -- that the existence of the Qom site should not come as a shocking revelation but a piece that fits what, it now appears, many officials already knew or believed to be true. This is also the only news story I've seen that devotes more than a sentence to the network of known nuclear sites in the country.

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