Hole Diggin' Mullahs

According to some diplomats, the mullahs have been digging tunnels and engineering large underground bunkers to hide their nuclear activities.

VIENNA, Austria — Fearing airstrikes, Iran is using reenforced materials and tunneling deep underground to store nuclear components — measures meant to make the facility resistant to "bunker busters" and other special weaponry, diplomats said Thursday.

The diplomats spoke as a 35-nation meeting of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency ended more than three days of deliberations focusing on Iran and North Korea, which are both accused of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

Among criticisms of Iran's nuclear-related activities, an review presented at the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted Tehran for starting work on the tunnel at Isfahan without informing the agency beforehand.

They only want it for peaceful energy research, though. They promise. So does Vladimir Putin.