Iran has denied for years its Fordow nuclear plant has been pursuing the development of weapons.
The satellite imagery shows activities that haven’t been seen in months.Satellite’s been picking up “unusual activity” at Fordow.
For instance, buses and large vehicles have been picked up moving in and out of the facility, driving toward newly constructed buildings that are believed to be research and development labs.
From i24 News:
Israeli satellite company iSi released several photos on Thursday indicating ‘unusual activity’ at a nuclear research facility in Iran from April 29, following weeks of speculation that US President Donald Trump might decide to leave the nuclear deal.
The satellite images show a number of activities at the Fordow nuclear research plant that haven’t been detected in recent months, such as a large presence of buses and vehicles, as well as new large buildings which iSi believe are for R&D (research and development) and assembly.
One of the satellite images shows an opened gate to the facility’s uranium enrichment tunnels, which the iSi says it has not observed in recent months.
However, on February 1, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Behrouz Kamalvandi, said that “we are at the stage of installing some equipment and Russian experts will arrive in Iran on Sunday to begin the installation work.”
On the same day AP quoted Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency as saying that the Russians were set to arrive at the Fordow nuclear facility later that week.Tensions over the Iran deal culminated this week when Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that Mossad has gathered intelligence which indicates that Iran is cheating on the deal.Netanyahu delivered a PowerPoint presentation, displaying thousands of original “incriminating” files part of half a ton of material from an archive of “Project Amad,” the name he said was given to “Iran’s comprehensive program to design, test and build nuclear weapons.”
“After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret files,” he argued.He blasted Iran for denying the existence of its nuclear program to the IAEA and for continuing to expand it after the 2015 JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), the formal name for the agreement with Iran.
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