Was Iran quake man-made?
Following Saturday's strong earthquakes in Northwestern Iran that resulted in more than 5000 casulaties (link in News Robot section here), numerous blogs and facebook posts have theorized that the earthquakes were "man-made." Some Iranians on Facebook have blamed underground Iranian nuclear tests or explosions for causing a spike in number of earthquakes in Iran as well as Saturday's deadly earthquakes. Bloggers point out to the absence of quake coverage on Iran's state TV as their proof of conspiracy.
On the other hand, non-Iranian bloggers seem to blame HAARP. One website wrote: "The war started in Iran. The first attack is with Haarp". Another video (shown below) also blames the secret HAARP technology given the quake depth of 10 Km. These blogs blame HAARP, The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, the ionospheric research program funded by the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. The project which was completed in 2007 in Gakona, Alaska by defense contractor BAE Systems, reports as its official purpose "to analyze and utilize the ionosphere for radio communications and surveillance." But many skeptics believe a now fine-tuned HAARP offers the US government a devastating new weapon impacting the planet with earthquakes, cyclones and strong localized heating. Even Hollywood has noted this. In the 2003 Hollywood SciFi hit The Core, HAARP was shown as responsible for halting the rotation of the Earth's core.
In 1995, Nick Begich, son of a (deceased) congressman from Alaska, self-published and sold 100,000 copies of "Angels Don't Play This HAARP," claiming that HAARP could trigger earthquakes and turn the upper atmosphere into a giant lens so that "the sky would literally appear to burn". He started giving speeches on HAARP's dangers everywhere, from UFO conventions to the European Parliament. Marvel Comics, Tom Clancy, and, of course, The X-Files made the facility an ominous feature of their narratives. A Russian military journal warned that blasting the ionosphere would trigger a cascade of electrons that could flip Earth's magnetic poles. "Simply speaking, the planet will 'capsize,'" it warned. The European Parliament held hearings about HAARP, so did the Alaska state legislature.
Separately, about six months ago, Saied Shemirani, a dissident Iranian journalist and political analyst opposing Iranian government, during his video commentary (shown above, after Minute 54) predicted strong man-made earthquakes in Iran as the Israeli-Iranian conflict escalates into a new phase:
It is hard to find independent scientific research on the true impact of HAARP or Iran's (alleged) underground nuclear tests on inducing earthquakes. But it is easy to see why more and more people do not trust mass media and government press releases. Instead they rely on their own analysis of speculators in non-conventional media.
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