The Object

The accompanying image may look like an oversized tumble dryer from Second Life, but if it’s what it seems to be, it’s our stay in First Life that we should be really concerned about. 

An image said to come from inside an Iranian military site shows an explosives containment chamber of the type needed for nuclear arms-related tests that U.N. inspectors suspect Tehran has conducted at the site. Iran denies such testing and has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of such a chamber.

The image was provided to The Associated Press by an official of a country tracking Iran’s nuclear program who said the drawing proves the structure exists, despite Tehran’s refusal to acknowledge it.

The official said he could not discuss the drawing’s origins beyond that it was based on information from a person who had seen the chamber at the Parchin military site, adding that going into detail would endanger the life of that informant. His country, a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is severely critical of Iran’s assertions that its nuclear activities are peaceful and asserts they are a springboard for making atomic arms.

A former senior IAEA official said he believes the drawing is accurate. Olli Heinonen, until last year the U.N. nuclear agency’s deputy director general in charge of the Iran file, said it was “very similar” to a photo he recently saw that he believes to be the pressure chamber the IAEA suspects is at Parchin. He said even the colors of the drawing matched that of the photo.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told The Times of Israel on Sunday evening: “We need to examine the evidence ourselves before we can express our opinion on a topic of such gravity. We’re not making any comments based solely on news reports before examining the issues our selves.”

An Iranian sofficial has reportedly claimed it’s nothing more than a large mosquito zapper.

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