Esfahan

Physicians for Social Responsibility examined the risks of a more advanced buster-bunker weapon, and it eerily tabulated the toll from an attack on the underground nuclear facility in Esfahan, Iran. “Three million people would be killed by radiation within two weeks of the explosion, and 35 million people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, would be exposed to increased levels of cancer-causing radiation, ” according to a summary of that study in the backgrounder by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Think Progress » Hagel: Military Strike on Iran is ‘Not a Viable, Feasible, Responsible Option’ 2006

We moved on from the pleasures of Shirz, to Esfahan which is a treasure.

Larry Beinhart: Why Should We Bomb These People? 2008

Cirincione went to the city of Esfahan in 2005 to tour a nuclear facility there at Iran's invitation.

Analysts Take Doubtful View of Iran Nuclear Inspection Tour 2011

Walking into the city of Esfahan I passed petro-chemical plants and factories belching out fluorescent orange smoke.

Mark Kalch: Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran (Part III) Mark Kalch 2011

It has a decrepit air force, antiquated air defenses, a vulnerable electrical grid, exposed nuclear sites the uranium conversion plant at Esfahan, the heavy water facility at Arak, the reactor at Bushehr, and a vulnerable energy infrastructure on which its economy is utterly dependent.

(How) Should Israel Bomb Iran? Bret Stephens 2012

ÂAs well as a Ânot so secret underground nuclear reactor near Natanz and enrichment sites in Esfahan directly in my path I was somewhat apprehensive.

Mark Kalch: Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran, Part 2 Mark Kalch 2011

Walking into the city of Esfahan I passed petro-chemical plants and factories belching out fluorescent orange smoke.

Mark Kalch: Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran (Part III) Mark Kalch 2011

As well as a not so secret underground nuclear reactor near Natanz and enrichment sites in Esfahan directly in my path I was somewhat apprehensive.

Mark Kalch: Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran, Part 2 Mark Kalch 2011

Iranian environmentalists are using online media tools to save different cultural monuments such as The Si-o-se Pol or “33 Pol” (bridge of 33 arches) an architectural masterpiece in the heart of the Iranian historic city of Isfahan (Esfahan).

Global Voices in English » Iran: Environmentalists Campaign to Save Isfahan 2009

But as Iranian state-controlled television beamed images of rallies supporting the regime in different cities, several Western and Arab television networks were reporting clashes between protesters and security forces in Tehran, Mashhad, Esfahan, Ahvaz, Shiraz and Tabriz.

Jamal Dajani: Iran Opposition Unplugged 2010