Due to lack of intelligence we did not know was reactor loaded by fuel or not consequently we decided not to bomb the reactor itself to prevent possiible contamination
can you show me iran government source saying that originally?? i don't believe that iran government was so very concerned about effects of causing nuclear fall-out near baghdad.
from (
<TARGET: SADDAM'S REACTOR> :: 'AIR ENTHUSIAST' MARCH/APRIL 2004 )...
As soon as Iraq invaded Iran, the Israelis exerted pressure on Iran to attack the building site at Tuwaitha. On September 27, 1980, General Yehoushua Seguy, the then Chief of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) intelligence, publicly urged the Iranians to attack by expressing surprise that "Iran had not yet attempted to bomb the Iraqi nuclear reactor in construction near Baghdad". The Iranians would not make the Israelis wait too long.
from (
BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 1981: Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor )...
1981: Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor
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The 70-megawatt uranium-powered reactor was near completion but had not been stocked with nuclear fuel so there was no danger of a leak, according to sources in the French atomic industry.
It acted now because it believed the reactor would be completed shortly - either at the beginning of July or the beginning of September 1981.
The Osirak reactor is part of a complex that includes a second, smaller reactor - also French-built - and a Soviet-made test reactor already in use.
fact 1 - even by the time the israelis attacked, the osirak reactor wasn't complete.
fact 2 - the "reactor" was actually one of three reactors in the same complex, including one which was fueled and working.
from (
<TARGET: SADDAM'S REACTOR> :: 'AIR ENTHUSIAST' MARCH/APRIL 2004 )...
According to an eyewitness, two bombs hit the dome that was to cover Tammuz-1, but bounced off it. Other bombs reportedly caused damage to the pumps and pipes in the water-cooling tower (west of the main facility, which is surprising, given that Iranian pilots deliberately dropped their weapons to the east of the reactors), and the installations for storing and treating liquid radioactive waste. Several labs and service facilities were hit, and heavy damage was caused to various piping systems and plumbing installations.
fact 3 - iran airforce did hit the reactor.
fact 4 - iran airforce also probably hit the secondary reactors, one of which could have gone into fall-out ( i presume ).
from (
<TARGET: SADDAM'S REACTOR> :: 'AIR ENTHUSIAST' MARCH/APRIL 2004 )....
While their warnings may have gone unheeded, the Israelis never stopped trying. Only few hours after Iraq initiated the invasion on September 22, a telex from Israel arrived in the offices of the Iranian government, starting with: "How may we help?"
The same message continued with a very detailed assessment of the Iraqi military, including unit dispositions and locations along the Iranian border, and a list of 124 suggested targets for the IRIAF, ranging from power stations to air bases, with the Osirak reactor site highlighted.
In addition to the supply of information, within a few days white-painted Israeli Boeing 707s started arriving at the military side of Mehrabad International Airport, delivering crates for the Iranian military.
fact 5 - the israelis had spies in the french company that made the osirak reactor and they would have told israel if the reactor was fueled or not and the israelis would have told iran government... so when iran airforce attacked, they knew that the main reactor was not fueled or even operational.
fact 2 - the "reactor" was actually one of three reactors in the same complex, including one which was fueled and working.
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therefore the irani and israeli attacks on the reactor complex were strategic, to prevent a future iraqi bomb... they were not concerned about immediate nuclear fall-out from their respective attacks on the reactor complex... not even if that would invite international condemnation or even attack ( on iran and israel ).
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however, what the main reactor turns out to be... from (
Operation Opera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )...
In 2005, Wilson further commented in The Atlantic:
the Osirak reactor that was bombed by Israel in June 1981 was explicitly designed by the French engineer Yves Girard to be unsuitable for making bombs. That was obvious to me on my 1982 visit
Elsewhere Wilson has stated that
Many claim that the bombing of the Iraqi Osirak reactor delayed Iraq's nuclear bomb program. But the Iraqi nuclear program before 1981 was peaceful, and the Osirak reactor was not only unsuited to making bombs but was under intensive safeguards.[36]
In an interview in 2012, Wilson again emphasised: "The Iraqis couldn't have been developing a nuclear weapon at Osirak. I challenge any scientist in the world to show me how they could have done so."
@jamahir why are you admiring dictators so much ? If you like them live with them.
you can't listen to one word of criticism against against western governments and iran government even though they caused such much destruction of your iraq !!!
iran government killed iranis in tens of thousands yet no condemnation from you !!!
lovely.
and if saddam was dictator, who would you say is not-dictator??
Post 2003 he was supporting IS ( as he stated recently in a audio tape ),
he knows IS would kill him therefor he never showed up in public
those two are contradictory statements... and can you give me link to that audio??
someone helping IS to take revenge on the world. Good riddance.
seems like you don't mind isis.
