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So if Iranians decide it's in their national interest to assassinate American and Israeli scientists, turnabout is fair play, right?
Good news to everyone but Ron Paul and his dim-witted supporters
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45953703...east_n_africa/
Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two people on Wednesday, a semiofficial news agency reported.
The attack in Tehran bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the Iranian nuclear program. It is certain to reinforce authorities' claims of widening clandestine operations by Western powers and allies to try to cripple nuclear advancements.
The bomb killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported. Natanz is Iran's main enrichment site, but officials claimed earlier this week that they are expanding some operations to an underground site south of Tehran with more advanced equipment.
"The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and is the work of the (Israelis)," Fars quoted Tehran's Deputy Governor Safarali Baratloo as saying. "The terrorist attack is a conspiracy to undermine the (March 2) parliamentary elections."
Iran's atomic energy organization said it would issue a statement later Wednesday.
The U.S. and its allies are pressuring Iran to halt uranium enrichment, a key element of the nuclear program that the West suspects is aimed at producing atomic weapons. Uranium enriched to low levels can be used as nuclear fuel but at higher levels, it can be used as material for a nuclear warhead. Iran denies it is trying to make nuclear weapons.
The killing of Roshan was similar to previous assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists that Tehran has blamed on Israel's Mossad and the United States. Both countries have denied the accusations.
'Critical year'
But Israeli officials have hinted about covert campaigns against Iran without directly admitting involvement.
On Tuesday, Israeli military chief Lt. Gen Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a "critical year" for Iran — in part because of "things that happen to it unnaturally."
Roshan, 32, was inside the Iranian-assembled Peugeot 405 car together with two others when the bomb exploded in north Tehran, Fars reported.
Roshan was a graduate of the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
Roshan was involved in building polymeric layers for gas separation, which is the use of various membranes to isolate gases. He was also deputy director of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, in central Iran, for commercial affairs. According to conservative news website, mashreghnews.ir, Roshan was in charge of purchasing and supplying equipment for tjhe Natanz enrichment facility.
A similar bomb explosion on Jan. 12, 2010, killed Tehran University professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor. He was killed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his car as he was about to leave for work.
In November 2010, a pair of back-to-back bomb attacks in different parts of the capital killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another.
The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, was a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran and cooperated with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. The wounded scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, was almost immediately appointed head of Iran's atomic agency.
And in July 2011, motorcycle-riding gunmen killed Darioush Rezaeinejad, an electronics student. Other reports identified him as a scientist involved in suspected Iranian attempts to make nuclear weapons.
Rezaeinejad allegedly participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component in setting off the explosions needed to trigger a nuclear warhead.
The United States and other countries say Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons technology. Iran denies the allegations, saying that its program is intended for peaceful purposes.
The latest blast is certain to bring fresh charges by Iran that the U.S. and allies are waging a clandestine campaign of bloodshed and sabotage in attempts to set back Iran's nuclear efforts.
"Instead of actually fighting a conventional war, Western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran's nuclear advancement," said Theodore Karasik, a security expert at the Dubai-based Ins ute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis.
He said the use of magnetic bombs bears the hallmarks of covert operations.
"It's a very common way to eliminate someone," he added. "It's clean, easy and efficient."
Meanwhile, new U.S. sanctions against Iran have also started to bite. The rial currency lost 20 percent of its value against the dollar in the past week and Iran has threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of trade oil passes.
So if Iranians decide it's in their national interest to assassinate American and Israeli scientists, turnabout is fair play, right?
They'd be about 70 years too late......
Besides, I don't like that idea much tbh.
death to chemists!
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middl...-of-covert-warMr. Roshan was at least the third Iranian scientist linked to Iran's nuclear program to be killed in two years; a fourth who was wounded but survived a similar attack in 2010, Fereydoun Abbasi Davani, has since been named head of Iran's atomic energy organization.
A further shooting in July 2011 killed an electronics student who some reports claimed was working on high-voltage switches.
a chemist died and that means we should bomb Iran
IMO Israel seems to be defending herself pretty well
It's really remarkable that only a few years after the American people were conned into thinking Iraq was a threat to the US and required a full scale invasion, the same American people are being conned all over again, by the same people, with Iran. This country's lack of intelligence never ceases to amaze me.
Does this TRULY cripple Iran's nuclear program? So high-profile as well; seems like the Mossad, or CIA, could be a little more subtle?
Politically these assassinations, to my sensibilities, seem to serve Iran more than their "enemies".
tends to unite the Iranian people behind their government, against obvious foreign aggression and interference. if they did the same to us it would have a similar effect.
to the yes!
now hopefully we are one step closer to eliminating the Iranian boogeyman altogether
How dare Iran try to create nuclear warheads? What country would ever be so sinister to have those things?
not before we go to war with them, I'm afraid. there's a well established pattern. just now we're still in the foundational stage of overhyping dangers. then comes war, then disillusionment.
are we already at war with Iran?
...first comes love, then comes marriage.......
the inevitability of it all.
hooray for western-funded terrorism!!!!
If you think like this, vote for Dr. Paul. He's your man.
can this killing of scientist be considered terrorism?
who is funding these terrorist organizations?
ask the MEK
CIA torturing its own members?????
so you still think Iraq posed an 'imminent' threat to the US?
Last edited by George Gervin's Afro; 01-11-2012 at 12:12 PM.
the birther is also a waterboy.
TBH, I don't think Iran would use a nuclear bomb on anyone. The powers that be although religious zealots are still corrupted by money and power and would not give that up. They just want to be on stage with the big boys and be able to push back against American policies.
Bingo. As opposed to the US, Iran has no desire to rule the world. What would they get from wiping Israel? Israel is more useful to them as the enemy over ther. The boogeyman.
This is similar to what happened after US defeated USSR in the cold war. Not having an enemy was bad news to the US. That is why they "create" enemies and wars in order to keep the sheeple behind them oblivious and in check.
Best scenario for Iran's govmt is what is happening right now. And if US/Israel bombs them, even better. They will not only have 150% of their people's support but also wide support of the international community for decades to come.
neocons banging the war drums
Neocons Dream Up Scary Iran Scenarios
Neocons Dream Up Scary Iran Scenarios
January 11, 2012
As American neocons continue to walk the United States toward another war in the Middle East, this time with Iran, they have been laboring to come up with rationales, including alarmist scenarios of what a nuclear-armed Iran might do geopolitically, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.
one could search in vain for any detailed analysis of just what difference the advent of an Iranian nuke would make. Most of the discourse on the topic simply seems to take as a given, not needing any analysis, that an Iranian nuclear weapon would be so bad that to prevent it warrants considering even extreme measures.
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/01/11...ran-scenarios/
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/01/11...ran-scenarios/
Hurray for murder!!!!
And this news is probably double-the-goodness for bible thumpers since that's one less scientist out there...
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