In The Days

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) greets his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez during a welcoming ceremony in Tehran. Chavez visited Iran to boost energy and trade ties, days after clinching a deal with Russia to build his country’s first nuclear power plant.

Venezuela’s firebrand President Hugo Chavez visited Iran on Tuesday to boost energy and trade ties, days after clinching a deal with Russia to build his country’s first nuclear power plant

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, center, at a highway tunnel near Tehran. Much of Iran’s atomic work is also in tunnels.

Last September, when Iran’s uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country.

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