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Originally posted by tuna View Post
Iranian authorities have advised the one and a half million people who live in Isfahan to leave the city if they can because pollution has now reached emergency levels. The same thing happened in the capital Tehran earlier this week. Kasra Naji works for the BBC's Persian TV service in London.
The implication is clear - this is about air pollution. I went to the BBC website & there isn't a story on this - it only appeared as a news brief. I'm pretty sure that if there were any suspicions of a leak it would be getting more coverage.
On the other hand, the 'Washington Free Beacon' leads with this:
Iranian officials have instructed residents of Isfahan to leave the city, renewing concerns that a nearby nuclear site could be leaking radioactive material
“Pollution in Isfahan is a problem but in the past, Iranian authorities respond by closing schools and the government to keep people at home and let the pollution dissipate, not by evacuating people,” said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser on Iran and Iraq who has written about Isfahan’s battle against pollution.
“Mass evacuations suggest a far more serious problem,” Rubin explained. “There are two possibilities here: There is a radiation leak and the regime is lying or there is really bad pollution and no one believes the regime’s explanations.”
You might want to improve the quality of your sources & read them more carefully. I only had to read the name of the website to become suspicious. The article itself raised further suspicions. A google search in which it was the only outlet running the story made me yet more suspicious. Until we have further evidence this is jumping the gun by a long ways.Last edited by Bigfella; 04 Jan 13,, 05:38.sigpic
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Yikes - Iran on the fast track to nuclear weapons - stuff like this happened in the Soviet Union during their race to build the bomb - in the US too.
This is potentially much worse than a power reactor accident - a fuel procesing center could easily have a much larger inventory than a powerplant - and more radioactivity to disperse.
With the processing schedules I've heard about in recent years - there could be massive amounts of dangerous material there.
here are some more articles about an explosion there a year ago- but nothing else about this on the search I just did
Report: Explosion rocks Iran city of Isfahan, home to key nuclear facility - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Loud Blast Reportedly Rocks Iranian City of Isfahan | Fox NewsLast edited by USSWisconsin; 04 Jan 13,, 07:30.sigpic"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
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Originally posted by snapper View PostYou don't evacuate a city for air pollution.
Oh, and telling people to leave or planning to evacuate them because of pollution isn't exactly unprecedented
....this past year alone.
Air pollution in the Northern province of Chiang Rai has worsened to a dangerous level, prompting authorities to consider evacuating children and elderly people over the next few days.
....or in the past month....in Iran.
Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi – the only female minister in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government – issued the drastic advice as soaring pollution levels prompted a rise in hospital admissions and the emergency closure of schools, universities and government agencies.
"If Tehran's inhabitants are able to leave the city, it would be good for them to do so," she said, according to the Arman newspaper.
Her comments came after Tehran, one of the world's most polluted and traffic-clogged cities, was enveloped by a choking poisonous haze which experts say was severe even by its standards.
Iranians told to flee Tehran - Telegraph
Fair to say the title of this thread is a LONG way from proven.
Now, can we hold our horses & do some research before jumping to any more conclusions please?Last edited by Bigfella; 04 Jan 13,, 09:05.sigpic
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Originally posted by snapper View PostYou don't evacuate a city for air pollution.
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Well, its 3 days since the 'Washington Free Beacon' started the internet buzzing with its news of impending nuclear disaster in Iran and 'evacuation' of Isfahan. No further news on either nuclear disaster or 'evacuation of the city'. I'm going to go out onto a very large, very sturdy limb here & call this 'busted'. It looks now as it looked in the initial BBC report - officials encouraging people to leave a city where pollution had reached dangerous levels. Overwhelmingly those who have speculated at length about a nuclear link sppear to be people who want to believe it, not people who have a shred of evidence for it.
Beware the 'internet headline' (and low quality heavily biased interenet news magazines).sigpic
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