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When it comes to Iran, you can’t ignore the bombs. That’s especially true for Parchin, a military site that has been the target of repeated explosions and fires over the years. It is also a site where Iran has tried to hide its nuclear weapons program from the world. The site is hidden from the outside world by a dense forest of trees, and even the local air force base has a hard time reaching it. It is also buried in the center of the country, far away from Iranians’ daily lives and the radar systems that might detect suspicious activity. This location, along with the nuclear sites at Natanz and Parchin, has made it a flashpoint for Western fears that Iran was developing an atomic bomb. But, despite all the sabotage that has taken place, it is difficult to believe that Iran could actually build a bomb at the site. The site is a complex assembly of underground tunnels, rooms and sheds that would require extensive reworking to make a weapon-grade uranium bomb. In addition, the uranium would have to be precisely enriched to produce enough neutrons to sustain fusion reactions that create a chain reaction and generate nuclear warhead-sized explosions. It is likely that Iran did experiment with making a nuclear weapon, but the facility at Parchin was not the ideal place to try out such a device. The building was small and contained no round-the-clock guards, making it vulnerable to sabotage by neighbors or even its own security forces. It also lacked the sophisticated monitoring equipment necessary to detect nuclear explosions, such as neutron counter recording tents. Moreover, the physics that would be needed to trigger a nuclear reaction were complex and involved precise measurements of many variables. This is why a specialized team of nuclear scientists was assembled at the site, including Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. ?????? ???? ?????? was the father of Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program and has been likened to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American scientist who developed the first atom bomb. He kept a low profile in Iran, but was viewed by the West as a critical figure in the country’s secret nuclear weapons effort. Earlier this week, an apparent fire and explosion hit one of the buildings at Natanz. Iran’s nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, downplayed the incident, saying it only damaged an industrial shed. But the fact that the damage occurred at a nuclear facility that has been targeted in sabotage attacks makes it more likely that the damage was done by enemy nations. It will also strengthen the hand of those in Iran who argue that if Tehran is going to suffer economic pressure and isolation anyway, it might as well stop cooperating with the IAEA altogether, so future sabotage is less likely. This is not a wise policy.

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