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| Iranian government minister blames CIA, Mossad for scientist killing |
| 2010-11-29 |
| IRAN'S interior government minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar tonight accused the US and Israeli intelligence services - the CIA and Mossad - of killing a prominent nuclear scientist. "Mossad and the CIA are the enemies of Iranians and always seek to hurt this nation. They particularly want to stop our scientific progress," he said, after state media reported one Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and another wounded in separate attacks in the capital. "The desperate terrorist act against the two academics shows their weakness and inferiority," he said of today's attacks, in which assailants on motorbikes reportedly attached bombs to the scientists' cars on their way to work. Iran was quick to blame Israel following the twin blasts. "In a criminal terrorist act, the agents of the Zionist regime attacked two prominent university professors who were on their way to work," the website of Iran's state television network reported earlier Monday, referring to arch-foe Israel. "Dr Majid Shahriari was killed and his wife was injured. Dr Fereydoon Abbasi and his wife were injured," the report said. Fars news agency said the scientists were targeted in two different locations by men on motorcycles who approached their vehicles and attached bombs to their cars. Shahriari was a member of the nuclear engineering department of Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran, according to the official IRNA news agency. Abbasi held a PhD in nuclear physics and did nuclear research at the defense ministry, the hardline news website Mashreghnews said. The website said Abbasi, 52, was "one of the few specialists who can separate isotopes" and was a "member of the Revolutionary Guards since the revolution" in 1979. The reported attacks came a day after the top US military officer said the United States, which is suspicious of Iran's nuclear drive, was weighing military options in the face of Tehran's announcement it had a nuclear power plant up and running. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 latest question: Was Dr. Abbasi in charge of Iran's anti-stuxnet effort? It gets more interesting. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-11-29 18:44 |
| #8 CONTROL? KAOS? UNCLE? BATMAN? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-29 17:06 |
| #7 maybe SPECTRE? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-11-29 15:37 |
| #6 They probably did put it on the frame, not on the glass, unless they were sticky |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2010-11-29 12:55 |
| #5 Tehran Bureau has more details Apparently somebody has been active killing scientists in Tehran. The strangest quote: Men on motorbikes approached the cars of the two men and stuck magnet-bombs on their windscreens /WTF? |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-11-29 12:26 |
| #4 Reminds me of that old joke American missile engineer speaks with Soviet engineer: We have very advanced missiles. You only push one button and it goes up. Ha! says the Soviet. Our missiles are better! Ours have two buttons! Two? What for? One to start missile and another to blow up specialist when missile doesn't start! |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2010-11-29 11:30 |
| #3 Maybe it was SAVAK... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-29 11:20 |
| #2 Might be Mossad, but I doubt the CIA has the political will to take such an action, even if they had the ability (which I also doubt.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-29 11:19 |
| #1 Djinns are active in Persia |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-11-29 10:40 |