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| Persian nuclear scientsts targets of car kabooms | |
| 2010-11-29 | |
| Two separate kabooms killed a nuclear alchemist and injured another in the Iranian capital Monday morning, official news outlets reported. Their bescarfed female spouses and a driver were also injured in the attacks, according to the news agencies. The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, was a member of the nuclear engineering team at the Shahid Behesti university in Tehran. No one claimed responsibility for the aggressions against the Iranian nuclear ingroup and no arrests have been made, Persian officials said. But they prompted a stern warning by the normally phlegmatic head of Iran's atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, who described Shahriari as a former student. "Do not play with fire," he said, according to IRNA. "There is a limit to the Iranian nation's patience and if we run out of patience the enemy will suffer adverse consequences. Of course we still maintain our patience."
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #9 Just to add a little fat to the gravy - from DEBKA, so salt to taste: Prof. Majid Shahriari headed the team Iran trying to stop the Stuxnet virus More details about the hit, including mention of early photos showing the cars riddled with bullet holes, here: http://www.debka.com/article/20406/ |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-11-29 20:58 |
| #8 Medieval Persian poetry = Teh Ghey™! The only question is what size crane they hang em from |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-11-29 20:22 |
| #7 I think I'd want to be very, very careful in my selection of a major if I was a university student in Iran. Medieval Persian poetry. The girls love hearing it, and it could lead to a career in advertising or script writing later -- and all very safe, as the period in question was one of the good Muslim ones. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-11-29 20:00 |
| #6 or the IRG might have suspected Professor Shahriari of installing the stuxnet or of having anti Mullah sympathy or of using the wrong salad dressing |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2010-11-29 19:39 |
| #5 Faculty warz! I has your DESK! |
| Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-11-29 19:28 |
| #4 I think I'd want to be very, very careful in my selection of a major if I was a university student in Iran. Engineering? Out. Computer science? Nope. Journalism? You've got to be kidding. Political science? Uh-uh. Maybe I just wouldn't go to university. Maybe I'd be a bricklayer. Or a busboy. Or a shoe salesman. Something safe. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-11-29 18:46 |
| #3 I'm betting a Saudi-directed fraction of Jundallah. The timing with the WikiLeaks Saudi document drop, combined with the usage of Cycles of Violence seem suggestive. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-11-29 17:04 |
| #2 Seems a little crud for Mossad. Not that that means anything, necessarily. Hired help? Local resistance group. My uniformed guess is one of the non-Persian ones, or the old-line Communists, who are still around somewhere, I think. Perhaps someone who actually knows what they're talking about could weigh in? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-11-29 15:31 |
| #1 Once is an accident... oh, wait, there were two. Well, three counting the Jan. 11 incident. Seems a little crud for Mossad. Not that that means anything, necessarily. Hired help? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-11-29 13:25 |