Iran builds a secret underground complex as nuclear tensions rise

[kpete]

Iran builds a secret underground complex as nuclear tensions rise
By Philip Sherwell in Washington
(Filed: 12/03/2006)

Iran's leaders have built a secret underground emergency command centre in Teheran as they prepare for a confrontation with the West over their illicit nuclear programme, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.

The complex of rooms and offices beneath the Abbas Abad district in the north of the capital is designed to serve as a bolthole and headquarters for the country's rulers as military tensions mount.


Iran uses small attack boats to simulate assaults on US warships
The recently completed command centre is connected by tunnels to other government compounds near the Mossala prayer ground, one of the city's most important religious sites.

Offices of the state security forces, the energy department and the Organisation of Islamic Culture and Communications are all located in the same area.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/12/wiran12.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/12/ixworld.html

[Flabbergasted]

1. I just hope we get better live action of the bombs being dropped!

:sarcasm:

[Quakerfriend]

2. Immune to bunker busters??

Iran and Iraq are worlds apart. We have not handled Iraq well, at all. I fear that Iran will knock our socks off!!

[bullimiami]

3. uh. doesnt see so secret if its in the newspaper...

didnt saddam have a vast network of underground bunkers stockpiled with wmd?

:crazy:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. I'd be highly suspicious of this

Aside from the Torygraph's right wing stance & ownership, it was spoonfed a whole host of anti-Iraq propaganda by friendly spooks.

From George Monbiot on "The Lies of the Press":

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By far the worst of these offenders is the Sunday Telegraph. In September 2001, it claimed that ?the Iraqi leader had been providing al-Qaeda ? with funding, logistical back-up and advanced weapons training. His operations reached a ?frantic pace? in the past few months?.(13) In October 2001 it reported that ?Saddam Hussein has relocated his chemical weapons factories after the first case of anthrax poisoning in America ? A senior Western intelligence official said that ? ?The entire contents of their chemicals weapons factories around Baghdad have been moving through the nights to specially built bunkers?.?(14)

In September 2002 it reported that ?Saddam Hussein is developing frightening new ways to deliver his arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, including smallpox and the deadly VX nerve agent.?(15) Another report on the same day claimed that ?Saddam is on the verge of possessing crude nuclear devices that could be ?delivered? using ?unorthodox? means such as on lorries or ships. ... Saddam has the capability to assemble all the components required to make nuclear weapons.?(16) In February 2003, it claimed that ?Iraq?s air force has advanced poison bombs?.(17)

All of these stories ? and many others ? appear to be false. But far from retracting them, it keeps publishing new allegations, which look as dodgy as its pre-war claims. Like the Observer, it appears to have been used by black propagandists in the intelligence services and Iraqi defectors seeking to boost their credentials. Unlike the Observer, it seems happy to be duped.

(...)

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2004/07/20/the-lies-of-the-press-/