Posted by David Traynier on November 5, 2009, 22:18:01, in reply to "Iran secret nuclear test Wikipedia nuclear panic horror" Link: Times Online
From The Times
November 6, 2009
Mohamed ElBaradei insists there is ‘nothing to fear’ at Iran atom plant
Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent
United Nations inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” during their inspection of an underground uranium enrichment site in Iran, according to the head of the organisation’s atomic watchdog (Catherine Philp writes).
Mohamed ElBaradei’s assessment, the first word on what was found at the controversial site near Qom, came in the course of an interview with The New York Times to mark his imminent departure as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Mr ElBaradei told the newspaper that his inspectors’ initial findings concurred with Tehran’s insistence that the plant had been built on a heavily fortified military site as a fallback in case its main plant was bombed, rather than to conceal a military use. “The idea was to use it as a bunker under the mountain to protect things,” Mr ElBaradei said.
“It’s a hole in a mountain.” Mr. ElBaradei’s words will be met with disappointment in Western capitals, long critical of his leadership of the atomic watchdog as too soft on Iran.....
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