There's a perfectly rational explanation for why a U.N. nuclear inspector was killed in Iran today but it's much less intriguing than the conspiracy theories spreading online.
There's news coming out of Iran today that's tailor-made for conspiracy theories: According to The Associated Press, officials have confirmed that an IAEA inspector has died and another was severely injured in a car accident in central Iran.
On the same day North Korea very loudly proclaimed it was going to test a space rocket that many feared was a thinly disguised missile, the country quietly invited United Nations nuclear inspectors to return after three years of expulsion, the agency said Monday.
A research group in Washington has pinpointed on satellite imagery what it says is the Iranian military testing facility that has long eluded U.N. inspectors.
Nuclear inspectors investigating Iran have been particularly focused on a site in Parchin, especially since they've been specifically denied access there.
One day after the UN officially issued a damning report that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had decided that the best way to respond is to insist that his nation will keep doing what it's doing--but that what it's doing isn't nuclear weapons.
The situation deteriorates as a refugee crisis piles on the I.A.E.A. referral
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