Mini-Chernobyl in Iran?

From Italy's TG5: "Iran: Nuclear Contamination, government covers up."

It happened about two months ago in Teheran, in the country's main center of nuclear research, at the headquarters of the Iranian atomic energy organization; among other things under the control of the U.N.'s IAEA. From an ultra-secret nuclear laboratory of the Revolutionary Guards situated in an undisclosed location in Iran, there arrived--according to TG5 sources--a load of radioactive material. A small suitcase containing some tens of grams of tritium was forced open by inexperienced hands, and the surrounding area was contaminated as a result. It appears that some workers were exposed to a high level of contamination.

Safety measures were put into effect, the plant was decontaminated, and an investigation was launched. All of this took place under maximum security, according to TG5 sources. The inquest regarded not only the dangerous incident, but also the level of security of the entire operation presided over by the pasdaran of the Iranian revolution. Investigators sought to discover if word of the accident had been leaked, and from what level of the chain of command.

The official version of what took place is that the material in question was simply uranium. But our sources go farther: If the place of origin of the radioactive material is designated by the letter "j," it means that the Iranians have done everything possible--it appears--to hide the evidence of its source: the writing on the containers were erased, except for two letters in Cyrillic. Disturbing news coming from the shadowy and dangerous underground of the international trafficking of nuclear materials and the secret experiments that are in progress.