The Ultimate Guide To Gaming In Iran: Finding The Best Sites

Iran blamed Israel for an overnight blast that left flames shooting from a weapons factory in central Isfahan, near nuclear facilities and a major air base. It is the latest in a series of unexplained fires that have occurred across the country. The shed fire doesn’t necessarily change the calculus over whether Iran is attempting to build a bomb. But it does spotlight renewed scrutiny of its nuclear work.

1. Natanz

Located near the central city of Natanz, this site is Iran’s nerve center for enriching uranium. Iran says its nuclear activities are peaceful, but Western intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believe Tehran is trying to produce the material for a bomb.

A recent explosion at Natanz completely destroyed a facility that houses advanced IR-8 centrifuges. These are up to 50 times more powerful than the IR-1 centrifuges at the plant that was damaged in July, and they can enrich uranium to much higher concentrations, making them suitable for use in weapons.

The blast is likely to make hardliners who advocate withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty feel more justified in their reluctance to cooperate with IAEA inspectors. It will also tarnish the prospect of keeping the nuclear deal alive. Seeking short-term tactical gains that jeopardize transparency undermines the long-term strategic goal of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. This is why diplomacy is the best way forward.

2. Parchin

At Parchin, a sprawling military complex southeast of Tehran, US and international inspectors believe Iran carried out experiments related to nuclear weapon development. Tehran is now barring IAEA inspectors from accessing the facility.

Physicist David Albright says the facility would have been a good place to carry out nuclear experimentation because it had special facilities to handle high explosives, bunkers to store them and diagnostic equipment for studying projectiles and explosions. It also has a large steel containment vessel that could have been used for hydrodynamic testing — blowing up a hemispheric array of high explosives to see how they interact with dense metals like highly enriched uranium to form an implosion.

But Albright now thinks the allegations that Iran conducted nuclear-weapons-related experiments at Parchin in 2000 have questionable technical credibility. And he notes that satellite imagery shows that Iran did not destroy a building it had said it would in response to a request from the IAEA for access to the بهترین سایت انفجار ایرانی.

3. Khojir

When a large explosion lit up the night sky on the eastern edge of Tehran last week, the Iranian government was quick to dismiss it as an industrial gas explosion. But commercial satellite photographs quickly shattered that deception, showing that the blast had occurred at a facility where both liquid and solid fuel rocket propellant are produced for Iran’s missile fleet.

The facility is close to the Parchin military complex, which is laced with underground tunnels that have been the focus of international inspections for more than 20 years. And it is near the Shahid Modarres site, where a massive explosion in November 2011 destroyed an entire section of buildings associated with solid fuel rocket production and killed General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, considered the father of the IRGC’s missile program.

The Khojir site also boasts a number of different ecosystems—rivers, mountains, steppes, farms, and gardens—and is therefore home to many bird species. It is an ideal location for eco-lovers and bird watchers.

4. Isfahan

Located at the intersection of the two principal north-south and east-west routes that cross Central Asia, Isfahan was one of Iran’s most important cities, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries under the Safavid dynasty. The cosmopolitan capital of a huge empire, it is now renowned for its Islamic architecture, boulevards and squares such as Naghsh-e Jahan, recorded as a world heritage site by UNESCO.

The city’s life is intertwined with the Zayanderud, which runs through it. Many of the historic bridges here are built across it, including the Si-o-Se Pol and Khaju bridges. There are also palaces such as the Chehel Sotoun, whose twenty wooden columns — when reflected in a pool at its entrance – appear to be forty; it has become known as “the forty-columned palace”.

Iranian state media said air defence systems had fired at a “suspicious object” over Isfahan early on 19 April. This followed reports of drone strikes at a major air base and nuclear facility near Isfahan, apparently in Israel’s retaliation for Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on its territory a few days earlier.

Wrapping It Up

The blast that rattled Iran on Friday came from an area where analysts believe Tehran is concealing a tunnel system and missile production sites. Satellite photos analyzed by Planet Labs PBC suggest that the underground facility is located in a mountain near the Natanz nuclear site.