[Music] Iran has a lot on its plate right now Israel is preparing to attack the country its proxies are Under Fire their are fears of a wider War so thean is dealing with a lot and amid all of this an earthquake struck the country last week on October 5th the epicenter was close to semnan a city in Northern Iran it wasn't a very big earthquake the magnitude was around 4.5 on the RoR scale so relatively minor but there were some strong Tremors in fact it was felt as far as thean so a minor earthquake some
Tremors no damage at all at any other point in time no one would care about something like this but this one is different and that's because of the timing it's suspicious Iran struck Israel last week Israel vowed to hit back and suddenly a mysterious earthquake occurs was it just another natural phenomenon or was it it the result of some human activity the internet has made up its mind they're calling it a nuclear test Iran's first underground nuclear test that may have led to the Tremors but does this claim hold water can nuclear tests cause earthquakes
did Iran really test its nuclear capability and where does their nuclear program stand at the moment let's look at these one by one first do nuclear tests cause tremors the answer is yes they do any underground nuclear detonation can cause seismic activity similar to an earthquake but not quite the same for example the depth of the Tremor this earthquake was shallow around 10 km deep usually nuclear sites are located further underground then there's the detonation it often causes an explosion on the surface there was none in Iran not that we know of and no explosion
is is is a very rare thing in a nuclear Test Plus look at the magnitude it does not indicate a nuclear explosion also Iran is very prone to earthquakes so this could be just another one having said all of this there is still one point that raises doubts and that is the location of this quake in 2019 a Washington based Think Tank released a report it said that Iran was building underground testing sites and one likely location was semnan very close go to the main city so Iran is said to be building a testing site
here this report came out in 2019 now 5 years later West Asia is on the edge Iran has to prove its might and on Q an earthquake occurs at the very same place so a lot of people joined the dots and said this must be a nuclear test of course it's hard to prove there isn't enough evidence but does Iran have the capability to launch a test like this and that too so quickly how advanced is their nuclear program they started working on it way back in the 1950s and they had someone helping them the
United States that's right Iran's now arch rival was once a close friend that got their nuclear program up and running all was well until 1979 but then the Iranian Revolution happened America's friend the Sha of Iran was toppled and Ayatollah Ki took over initially he was opposed to nuclear power so their program was paused but but it resumed in the 1980s and this time Iran got help from countries like Russia in 2002 it was found that thean had secret nuclear facilities it was pursuing weapons grade uranium so until 2015 Iran was sanctioned heavily for its
uranium enrichment and for its lack of transparency but then in 2015 a deal was signed the jcpoa The Joint comprehensive plan of action better known as the Iranian nuclear deal Iran signed it with the us the UK France China Russia and Germany thean promised to limit its nuclear program in exchange the others agreed to lift sanctions and it worked fine until 2018 but then Donald Trump pulled the plug he exited the pack the nuclear deal fell apart Iran started breaching its commitments and building its nuclear capacity as of today it has a few no nuclear
sides this is where they're located look at the map it also has some secret facilities and enrichment capability to build Warheads experts estimate that Iran can build a bomb in a week so the big question is have they done it already has Iran built a nuclear bomb honestly we have no way to verify just like we have no way to know for sure if the Tremor was an earthquake or a nuclear test thean will not come clean but we do know that it it does want a nuclear deterrent and if it has the capability this
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