"Newly released satellite images of Iran's top-secret Parchin military complex reveal that even as Iran was working to negotiate a nuclear deal, it was apparently working to hide its atomic work of the past and hedge its bets for the future.
Forecasting site Stratfor.com says the images published Monday show Iran building a tunnel into a heavily guarded mountain complex inside the Parchin facility, some 20 miles southeast of Tehran, while also working to erase signs of alleged high-explosive testing at another area on the site... Stratfor analyst Sim Tack told The Daily Beast.
'The images show Iran was going through the motions to hide what it's done before, and it is still...developing facilities that the IAEA may or may not have access to,' Tack said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency...
The satellite images appear to show new paving around the building that was alleged to be a test site for high-energy explosive charges used to detonate a nuclear weapon. Comparing satellite images from 2010 to one taken this year, Tack points out that the area has been paved, and plants and trees surrounding it removed and the soil scraped-all steps one would take to hide the radioactive fallout of nuclear weapons testing...
'The imagery showed they were working on a tunnel entrance within the Parchin complex...and it looks like it's complete,' Tack said...
'They were still going forward with that construction during the talks,' he said. Whatever's hidden beneath that mountain, the IAEA didn't get a look at it last September, he said.
'There are places where nobody knows what's going on,' he said..."