The Nuke Conspiracy: Is Iran evacuating a city due to radiation leak?

By Rob Daven
Conspiracy HQ

Another day, another conspiracy…

The Alternative Media is a buzz today with the rumor that a radiation leak is behind the sudden evacuation of Isfahan, Iran.

It appears as if the rumor gained massive momentum after The Suspicious Observer requested his viewers to help him track down the “truth” behind this report from the BBC:

Iranian authorities have advised the one and a half million people who live in Isfahan to leave the city if they can because pollution has now reached emergency levels. The same thing happened in the capital Tehran earlier this week. Kasra Naji works for the BBC’s Persian TV service in London.

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On the surface it would be easy for one to draw the conclusion of a nuclear leak due to Isfahan being close to one of the Iranian nuclear facilities. Plus evacuating 1/2 a million people does sound quite suspicious.

After some digging though, I found out that the evacuation order is voluntary. It seems to me that if they had a nuclear leak, they would have a mandatory evacuation. A regime who is constantly battling in the world’s nuclear arena for validation wouldn’t want to have a few hundred thousand irradiated bodies laying around.

As well, I found information that Tehran itself has been battling pollution on an epic scale for the last year at least, including requested evacuations due to pollution.

“Unbreathable” is how Shaygan described the air quality in Iran’s smog-shrouded capital these days. He’ll get no argument from worried city officials.

For the third workday in two weeks, Tehran was effectively shut down Thursday because of “unhealthy” pollution levels. Government offices, schools, banks, factories and many other sites were ordered closed to try keep the eye-stinging cloud from growing any worse.

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It seems once again the Alternative Media has shown its naive tendency to jump on any dramatic story that sounds some-what reasonable.

The Suspicious Observer isn’t to blame here, he was only asking for more information. But I do blame yellow-journalism specialists (here, here and here) for once again discrediting the conspiracy theorists by publishing a bunch of bullshit while lacking any sort of evidence other than a misread story on the BBC.

And really, just cause you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get ya!