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New imagery of Iran's nuclear project now on Google Earth

ogleearth.com — Here is the June 11 2007 imagery as an overlay. (And last year's overlay; download them both for a remarkably good overview of Iran's nuclear project). Current imagery in Google Earth of Iran's Natanz site itself is more recent than that of last year's overlay, adding yet another step in the chronology.

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  • brokenspatula, on 10/11/2007, -8/+14Do you need a mountain for nuclear power?
    • agrabob, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12no, you need a mountain to easily bury and protect underground facilities.

      See NORAD.
      • Habemus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1NORAD is a command and control site for waging nuclear war. So I guess Bush is right about the intentions of Iran then and the whole "peaceful nuclear program" that Iran claims is just a sham since they are building an underground nuclear war command and control site, Thanks for clearing that up.
    • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -7/+28You need a mountain for nuclear power if America is threatening to drop bombs on your reactor
      • hambend, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12I don't see why swrostmore is getting dugg down. Whatever their intentions, Iran would be stupid not to take the American nuclear threat seriously.
      • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -8/+13Im getting dugg down for not being a Good American and suggesting that Iran needs to hide their nefarious nuclear b*mb factory under a mountain so that when President Giuliani drops a tactical nuke on it to prevent the Iranians from imposing Sharia on the USA, Supreme Ayatollah Khameni can ride an ICBM out of the crater all the way to D.C. Dr. Strangelove-style.
        • moin1097, on 10/11/2007, -12/+4No. You are being dug down for being an idiot as usual.
        • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10lol the ironic thing is, I was (and am) no longer dugg down at the time of your idiotic post
        • djpants428, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0"President Giuliani"?

          /Sarcasm?
        • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2yes
      • Muyoso, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Both of you stop with the "nuclear option" crap. The US would NOT use a nuke, it would be so stupid to even consider. Just because a candidate says "all options are on the table", it does not mean nuclear. It means military, diplomacy, and sanctions. Why the hell would we use a nuke to destroy a nuclear facility? We have bombs much better suited to destroying underground installations then a nuke.
        • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Actually "all options" specifically means nukes, and "bunker-busters" are tactical nukes.
        • Osjpr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"The US would NOT use a nuke, it would be so stupid to even consider."
          All Republican candidates who are running for President have said they would use nuclear weapons against another country
      • DestroyFascism, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yes they use the tunnels in Sweden and Norway to store the waste. In Sweden it goes 4 kl deep and the waste is stored in pools of water to control the heat and energy. NORAD can preach all it likes but face it, there is no way Iran could make a bomb any time soon, it would be cheaper to buy one from Russia....
  • jimmoses, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Maybe that's the disposal site, like the was the folks in FInland do it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ifs_news/hi/newsid_4948000/4948378.stm
    • Coven, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Disposal site? They don't have much to dispose of yet...
      • jimmoses, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Preparation is the key to all good cooking.
        • Coven, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1A disposal site is actually a good thing. It means they'll be using up their nuclear fuel, instead of wasting it on nuclear warheads.
    • Chandon, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Great. They're taking a bunch of perfectly good high-energy nuclear fuel and dumping it in a hole. That's obviously a good solution to the world's energy problems.
  • decepto, on 10/11/2007, -11/+26propaganda?
  • SirZRX, on 10/11/2007, -11/+5how about if we see the Americans nuclear projects now?
    • thatsmyaibo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+11At least we register our weapons with the UN and allow inspectors in without problem. You are only this cautious if you have something to hide like Iran does. My Father was born and raised there and he knows first hand that Iran has gone to ***** after the religious fanatics took over in government.
      • iranian, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"My Father was born and raised there and he knows first hand that Iran has gone to ***** after the religious fanatics took over in government."
        I am an Iranian and I'm living in Iran right now, and I can say for sure that Iran has developed a substantial amount after the revolution. Look at the Iran section of worldbank.org for details.

        Also take a look at IAEA.org to see how many times their inspectors have visited Iran. Read their reports to see that IAEA has officially announced that their has been "no diversion of [nuclear] activities" towards weapons in Iran.
    • Buelldozer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6How about the Russian ones? You know, the ones they're selling all over the globe? :-)
    • SirZRX, on 10/11/2007, -11/+4Americans nuclears projects.... in the name of the world peace
      Others nuclears projects..........terrorists
      sad but true... dig me down if u all want. u all know is true
      • burnstyle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1the old saying still rings true... even slightly modified

        'nuclear powers for peace is like ***** for virginity'
    • DruSam, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Even better, we can actually see some of ours go off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

      But really we are talking about Iran's nuclear project. Back on topic please, not everything revolves around America.
    • syxle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Amen.lol
    • profertel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I want to see Israel's.
  • NRX22, on 07/23/2008, -2/+787 diggs in 3 minutes? Jesus...
  • Impact0115, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Ahh, a much easier way to find those pesky WMD's
  • Racerx52, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14How about a direct link to google?
  • jpt62089, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Direct link anywhere?
  • x12x, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4They have what we're threatening to use against them. THE INSANITY!!!!!
    • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9we're threatening to use a half-completed subterranean fission reactor against Iran?
  • peterjmag, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4What's next? Google Maps Live Drug Trafficking?

    [/bad joke]
  • furntree, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Best I could find was the KMZ file for Google Earth.

    http://tinyurl.com/2u3rp3
  • beelz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5http://duggmirror.com/world_news/New_imagery_of_Iran_s_nuclear_project_now_on_Google_Earth/
  • mntnbkr7, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1go here on google earth 33degrees 43'28.26" N 51 degrees43'25.45 E for a clear picture
  • DarkReign16, on 10/11/2007, -4/+31Uh oh, they're building roads! QUICK, ATTACK!

    /sarcasm
  • mntnbkr7, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0go here on google earth 33degrees 43'28.26" N 51 degrees43'25.45 E for a clear picture
  • hectazee, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9I just see some roads and buildings.
    • unreg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Grass needs cutting and the garden could use a good weeding
    • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9thats right, NUKULAR roads, NUKULAR buildings!!!!!!!!1
  • erexsha, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0It's middle of nowhere! Are you sure the 33degrees 43'28.26" N 51 degrees43'25.45 E is the right place?
  • almondfilter3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Is this the evidence we supposedly had before going into Iraq? Arbitrary looking things and calling them dangerous?
    • chrisragu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3no kidding, how about that van that we claimed housed biological weapon in iraq. Man, that was really funny when it turned out no even close. Wonder what they had in the van. Kebab maybe?
  • syxle, on 10/11/2007, -5/+10propaganda.
  • rhabd0mancer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I think I see a mobile bio lab and some unmanned terror drones.
  • fantasyVII, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2(in Iraqian accent) no no no this is no nuclear project. this is just our dairy queen, no need to send nato to investigate i swear, this only diary queen, buuuuut no public allowed in this dairy queen.
  • brycelb, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Propoganda?????????

    Good thing we aren't relying on any of the diggers to actually make a good point.
    • pintomp3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3don't worry, the administration and fox news will cite this website when making their case for our next war.
  • rlbigfish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Even IF they were building a nuclear weapon there, it was reported not too long ago that they were 10 years off from having a nuclear weapon. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080101453.html.

    On top of that, the Soviet Union had some 40,000 nukes during the Cold War!
    http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/doctrine/intro.htm.

    Are we really supposed to be frightened into war with this little rinky dink threat?!
    • Muyoso, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Actually, it was then later reported that they would have the capacity to turn out their first warheads beginning in 2009 or earlier. I dont think we should go to war with them over this, but i sure wouldnt let them build nukes.
    • akamurph, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Um, the Soviet Union wasn't led by a crazed lunatic that thinks the 2nd imam or whatever is going to appear any day now... The Soviet's also understood the meaning of MAD (mutually assured destruction) - which I won't give Iran's leaders credit for.
      • Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Because we all know that Stalin was a very sane man..... oh wait he killed 120 million people, that's more that Hitler ever killed. Since you handled Soviet Union, you can very well handle Iran, you 're like Don Kikhot nowadays you're going after "windmills" and you try to make the rest of the world believe that they are dangerous criminals wanting only the blood of our children.
      • Andronicus1717, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Stallin was only in power until 1953. There was no MAD by 1953, your argument is moot.
  • RedShirtNumber2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8OMG! they could have a nuclear missle in 10 years or more and maybe have it on a missle that could reach Europe 15 or 20 years at the earliest! Everybody panic! Meanwhile Bush helped cover up details about Pakistan's current nuclear weapons program to keep Congress in the dark about it. George W. Bush defending America by ignoring the obvious and attacking the wrong people!
    • mos6507, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Decide which way you stand on nuclear proliferation because the US is the only big stick on the planet and if the UN one day decides to take Iran to the security council and sanction military action but can not utilize us then it throws the doors wide open to proliferation. After that, every tinpot dictator is going to have nukes, with Venezuela and Cuba probably next, quite a bit closer to home.
  • Catchpen, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2There building it in an active volcano. Imafukinjehaad's going to melt every city on earth with liquid hot MAG-MA...for christ sake give him his million dollars!
  • senkmajer, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1I'll just repeat my comments from a few days ago when news broke that Iran was tunneling into those mountains to bury their nukes:

    Ah, yes. I can see this is just another example of Iran being misunderstood.

    I'll be interested to see the self-loathing Ahmadinejad apologists explain how the evil West is just "mistranslating" the pictures we are seeing.

    As I've said before: this, too, must be Bush's fault... Oh, yeah, and don't forget the Jews. The illegitimate Jewish state is OBVIOUSLY up to something here.
  • worldofsmut, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Iran is a country which stones homosexuals, hangs rape victims and minors and has clearly stated its desire to destroy other countries - a threat never echoed by any existing nuclear power.

    I'm glad some of you find this amusing...
    • hectazee, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Frankly, I don't give a flying ***** what they do over there. They are all the way on the middle east, they can rape aliens if they want to. As long as they don't mess with me, not my problem.
      • Habemus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Curious that you think that brown people are sub-human and unworthy of consideration and that only Americans count for anything. This is the state of liberal-think in the US now. Sad.
      • worldofsmut, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Wow. My comment got modded down and yours modded up.
  • amirjpl, on 10/11/2007, -7/+23I am really sick of the ignorant and stupid Americans that think Iran is a great threat that they are going to attack you. Iran is smart, no me rephrase that for you. Iran is genius. Ahmadinejad (the current president) is an extremely smart man, no matter what you think of him. Iranians are respectable people and they want peace for the world, but America always has to stick its finger up everyone's ass. The Iranian people like the American people, and I am not just saying that, they really do like the American citizens, and they respect the Americans very much, but they just hate the U.S government. You can't blame them, sorry to say practically the whole world is sick and tired of the U.S.

    If you ever see a video of a riot on the streets of Tehran on TV, with the Iranians saying death to America remember all the things America has done to Iran. One thing off the top my head is the attack on Iran Air Flight 655, which was commercial Airplane carrying Iranian passengers and was shot down OVER HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL WATERS. When did the U.S get the ***** right to do that.

    Don't believe the ***** coverage of the attack by mainstream American media, as they lie and lie again to cover up government ***** ups and crimes. The media is doing this with Iraq war and other current events as well right now, and their are a bunch of stories submit ed to Digg supporting this.
    Almost forgot to give a little quick fact. U.S gov has got young bright students at UC Berkeley to create new, and smarter nuclear weapons, so you tell me who is the dangerous country here. The worst is that we got white trash monkey as president that is in control of the use of these weapons.

    ..and remember Iran is the CLOSEST thing to democracy in the mid-east, so don't mess this up.
    I can keep going, but if this doesn't make you think or set a spark in your head, I don't know what will.
    If you want to comment make it intelligent and don't give your ignorant, uni-brain-celled, Bill O'Reilly, conservative dumb ass response. You know how the saying goes if you can say something good, then say nothing at all.
    • IslandDog, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3LOL. Talk about propaganda. Iran wants peace, huh? Does that include Israel as well or do we believe what the Ahmanutjob says about wiping Israel off the map?

      This is so ridiculous.
      • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1redacted
      • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4 TIME: You have been quoted as saying Israel should be wiped off the map. Was that merely rhetoric, or do you mean it?

        Ahmadinejad: [...] Our suggestion is that the 5 million Palestinian refugees come back to their homes, and then the entire people on those lands hold a referendum and choose their own system of government. This is a democratic and popular way.
        • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3However I have the feeling the system Palestinians democratically choose might involve annihilating the jews. Just a guess. Actually I have no idea how the average Palestinian refugee feels about Jews, I don't speak arabic.
        • quarkie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Like democratically choosing a terrorist group that refuses to recognize the right of a country to exist and threaten to destroy its citizens every step of the way, while teaching curriculum that teaches vile anti-semitism?

          Sounds about right. God bless democracy.
        • Osjpr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1quarkie , if you are israeli or jewish, you need to STFU because you are heavily biased and reared to hate the palestinians. Sucks to be brainwashed, but that's you.
    • chrisragu, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3good one..thanks for the comment
    • VitriolAndAngst, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6In a poll, I think around 2001, Iranian citizens (mostly youthful, due to a lot of deaths in the Iraq/Iran war), had about an 80% approval rating of the United States. England was somewhere around 40-60% (hey, this is from memory).

      Anyway, the only reason Iran elected Ahmadinejad is because Bush was giving that "axis of evil" speech 2 weeks before their elections and had troops on their border. So of course, they went (with slim margins) for an anti-west reactionary.

      Anyway, Ahmadinejad sounds more sane than Bush -- if you ever bothered to read any of his speeches. He states he wants no confrontation with the West. But of course, one can't help notice what happened to Saddam who had NO WMDs and complied with the Bush.

      I expect this to be Dugg down for honesty.
    • mos6507, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Don't expect americans to get beyond Ahmadenijad's bad behavior. What has he done to improve the impression of Iran in the eyes of the US? Hold holocaust conventions? Arm Hezbollah and Hamas? Kidnap British soldiers? Talk in glowing terms about armageddon? There really isn't much to work with on the negotiating front as long as that nutcase is ruling the roost.
    • akamurph, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Yeah - I really trust those Iranians and their great leader Ahmaa;j;aslkdjfasdiofasdiojihad!! He's a real winner! How about all that nice rhetoric being taught in Iran's schools these days? Death to the Great Satan American right? And you want me to believe Iranian citizens like the US? Get real. Start looking after your own backyard. Your little speech "all the things the US has done to Iran" - sounds like my little kid making excuses for doing something wrong - that's the same mindset across the middle east - blame America for all their faults and all their wrong-doings... I guess I would to, it's a lot easier then looking inward. Again, clean up your own backyard. Bush will be gone in a year and you will have to find a new person to blame all your faults on and/or a new excuse to kill innocent people. It's PC now, just blame it on Bush.
      • TexMexMatt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Have you been in a Iranian school today and seen that with your own eyes? Have you been in an American school and seen what kind of stuff they teach kids there? Oh yes, all arabs are terrorists and they hate us for our freedom. bla bla bla... How about Israeli kids? You know what they told soldiers before they went to Lebanon? You know what they wrote on bombs? Its not better at all.

        And about that "All the things US has done to Iran". Well, You really were the one that destroyed Iranian democracy and put a dictator at the helm and then trained their secret police in torture and killing. A lot of people were killed by that secret police and all USA did was going on about how nice democracy is and that you would spread it around the world like you do now and then support dictators around the world and train secret police in the "art" of killing and raping and torture.

        Yes, its actually true. Iranian citizens LOVE USA. They love watch American movies and love American clothes etc. etc. That is no joke but since you only watch Fox news you wouldnt know anyway. Young Iranians are very western minded and open minded but they also love their country and will not tolerate, just like you wont tolerate, that someone wants to bomb their country.

        So please get real and clean up YOUR backyard and please look inward. USA actually IS the one to blame for Iran is what Iran is today. You really should start checking up on what CIA does for a change instead of acting all surprised and go into denial when they done something you cant believe they would do.
    • worldofsmut, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1"remember Iran is the CLOSEST thing to democracy in the mid-east,"

      Good God. You didn't mention Israel, a *real* democracy (as opposed to being "close" to democracy). Clearly you are an Iranian puppet...
  • barrybevel, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Freedom of speech is ok...but what about freedom of nukes?
    What about nuke and let nuke?
    A nuke for a nuke as the bible says...
    • leszek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3A nuke for a nuke and the whole world goes BOOM.

      It was from Gandhi btw.
      • barrybevel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0I was just trying to get the word nuke into as many phrases as I could.
        Good quote though.
  • DesignEx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3All we are missing now is a high ranking general, and some aluminum tubes.
    • swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me but you cant get fooled again.
  • VitriolAndAngst, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The International Nuclear Regulatory Agency states that Iran doesn't have weapons enrichment. Can anyone here look at a photo like that and tell me if it produces 5% Uranium or 98% Uranium (which requires a lot of processing)?
  • Chubakkaz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11this can't get anymore hypocritical. the US keeps demanding everyone to undo their nuclear plans while the US has a butt load of nukes that can destroy the planet 9 times or something.

    how is anyone seriously gonna give up the possibility of nuclear reactors and major progress over a bunch of childish tyrants that wanna police the world.
    • akamurph, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0childish tyrants?

      We were very content a little over 60 years ago not dealing with world politics and keeping our nose out of things... then a little TYRANT named Hitler started a little chaos in Europe and started a little something called a WORLD war. So I'm fine if the US wants to help the WORLD out and look after things so something like that doesn't happen again. Or, I guess you don't mind the millions of jews that were exterminated?
  • DestroyFascism, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2They use tunnels in Sweden and Norway to store the waste IIRC. In Sweden it goes 4 kl deep and the waste is stored in pools of water to control the heat and energy. NORAD can preach all it likes but face it, there is no way Iran could make a bomb any time soon, it would be cheaper to buy one from Russia....
    • Andronicus1717, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Pools of water? Source please...
      Storing waste in pools of water sounds like a criticality nightmare should a tank rupture. They specifically calcify waste in the US and make sure the water content is less than .5 wt % H2O.
    • Andronicus1717, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Digg down previous comment.

      The CLAB interim repository for spent fuel (treated as high level waste) has been operating since 1985 at Oskarshamn, and its 5000 tonne capacity is being expanded to 8000 tonnes to cater for all the fuel from all the present reactors. The spent fuel is stored under water in an underground rock cavern for some 40 years. It will then be encapsulated in copper and stainless steel canisters for final emplacement packed with bentonite clay in a 500 metre deep repository in granite.
      http://www.uic.com.au/nip39.htm

      And I do recall the Brittish throwing nuclear waste into the North Sea a while ago, so I guess it makes sense.
  • Amoeba16, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I don't know -- it just kind of looks like a Heavenly Chocolate Chip Factory to me.
  • mos6507, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Wanna take bets it looks like a crater in next year's photo?


  • MrKobie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Why does google censor images of western military and nuclear sites, but goes out of its way to highlight such things in places lke China, Syria and Iran?
  • UWake911, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I hope they finish it soon. Every race has the right to technology.
  • Rethcir, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1How come they can get this stuff up to date so fast, but they can't put in any post-Big Dig images of boston?
  • conceptkid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Apparently anytime they build something now, it might be a nuclear creating entity. We must watch them at all times, you might even see them take a ***** in a hole and bury it, then we will need to attack them
  • bcecka, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Buried. This isn't world news or even propaganda. It's just an observation and an unfounded opinion of a map.
  • DCP707, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Why get all worked up about this, one Cruz missile would set them back another 10 years. My guess is this is a bluff by Iran to get the west to change its policies about trading with them. Could be wrong but seams like a big waste of time and money with the US army right next door.
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