NuclearIran News
Archive: September 2009
Is the Qom enrichment facility a repurposed tunnel complex?
September 29, 2009
The analysis of commercial satellite imagery from 2004, 2005 and 2009 seems to suggest that the recently disclosed Qom centrifuge enrichment facility in Iran may have previously been a tunnel complex not specifically designated for enrichment purposes. The limited early construction as compared to the greatly increased pace that follows seem to suggested that the facility was converted to house… Read More ›
Suspected Qom enrichment plant site image overlay by Ogle Earth
September 28, 2009
Ogle Earth, using recent satellite imagery provided by ISIS and DigitalGlobe, has created a Google Earth viewable map of the most likely candidate for the Qom enrichment plant site in Iran. The downloadable KML file when opened in Google Earth provides an overlay of the 2005 and 2009 imagery of the site.
You can download the file here:… Read More ›
New Satellite Imagery of Suspected Gas Centrifuge Site Near Qom, Iran
September 27, 2009
ISIS has obtained new commercial satellite imagery from GeoEye taken on September 26, 2009 of the suspected covert gas centrifuge facility under construction near Qom, Iran. This is one of the two suspect sites that ISIS assessed on Friday were likely locations of the facility. ISIS assesses that this site is the most likely location of the centrifuge facility revealed… Read More ›
Satellite Imagery of Two Possible Sites of the Qom Enrichment Facility in Iran
September 25, 2009
ISIS takes a look at 2 sites that fit the reports of the possible locations of the recently disclosed Qom uranium enrichment facility in Iran.
Both sites display tunnel entrances into facilities located within mountains and in the confines of military bases within 30-40km from the city of Qom.
The set of before and after commercial… Read More ›
U.S. statements regarding the disclosure of the Qom enrichment plant
September 25, 2009
Here are the USG-drafted background and talking points regarding the disclosure of the clandestine centrifuge facility at Qom.
Official U.S. Government Statements Regarding the Qom Enrichment Plant Disclosure
Q&A on the Qom Enrichment Plant Disclosure
Video of… Read More ›
NYT reports clandestine facility near Qom
September 25, 2009
There is significant breaking news today of an alleged clandestine facility in Iran, which though not currently operational, could eventually house as many as 3,000 centrifuges. According to the New York Times, the underground site is located near the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran. The IAEA’s director of safeguards, Olli Heinonen, has been… Read More ›
Concern increases over Venezuela’s nuclear ambitions and strengthening ties to Iran
September 22, 2009
Recently Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela would seek the cooperation of Russia in developing a nuclear program that could involve the construction of a research reactor and a power reactor. In light of Venezuela’s strengthening ties with Iran, claims by Chavez that the two countries should cooperate in the nuclear realm, the announcement that Venezuela would supply Iran with refined… Read More ›
ISIS Case Study of the trials of German-Iranian trader Mohsen Vanaki and the relevant intelligence
September 16, 2009
ISIS takes a look at the case of Mohsen Vanaki, a German-Iranian trader, who was arrested in November 2007 and charged for brokering several deals to illicitly transfer dual use materials for what the German intelligence service (BND) believed to be an ongoing Iranian nuclear weapons program. The report analyzes the initial dismissal of charges and a following reversal by… Read More ›