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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli 'network of spies...destroyed'
2011-01-10
[JPOST] - Iranian state television announces arrests related to January 2010 assassination of nuclear scientist Masoud Alimohammadi.

Iran has arrested a "network of spies" linked to the Mossad intelligence service it claimed planned the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010, Reuters reported.

"The network of spies and terrorists linked to...Mossad was destroyed," Iranian state television reported citing a comment released by the intelligence ministry. "The network was behind the assassination of Masoud Alimohammadi."

Alimohammadi, a university scientist, was killed when a bomb attached to a motorcycle detonated outside his home in Tehran on January 12 last year. According Iranian state-run Press TV, 50-year-old Alimohammadi had just left his house on his way to work when the explosion went off. This was the first of three assassination attempts to occur to Iranian professors working in the nuclear field in 2010.
No doubt eventually we'll learn if the arrestees were members of the Iranian Jewish community, people connected to Iran's nuclear effort, or rebels of one sort or another against the Mullahs.
Update at 1140 CT: Roooters has more here. Remember Iran, every other man named 'Mahmoud' is an evvvvil Zionist spy.
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#12  Yep. Looks like you got them all.
Uh-huh...
Posted by: The MOSSAD   2011-01-10 19:43  

#11  sorry about repeating , the snow in GA plus beer must be affecting my brain waves plus having too think about all this global warming that i was thinking about
Posted by: chris   2011-01-10 18:02  

#10  maybe this is just paranoia and they aeren't real Mossad. Could have been Jundallah( isn't that the name of the group against the regime not sure myself). Or maybe someone should put it in their head they are very mad Iranian republican guard.
Posted by: chris   2011-01-10 17:59  

#9  maybe this is just paranoia and they aeren't real Mossad. Could have been Jundallah( isn't that the name of the group against the regime not sure myself). Or maybe someone should put it in their head they are very mad Iranian republican guard.
Posted by: chris   2011-01-10 17:59  

#8  Russia should be careful. On of their own nuclear reactors could have an accident.
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-10 16:02  

#7  Phaiger Trotsky4912: A specialist FSB unit provided electronics surveillance information to Hezbollah against the major "Al-Alam spy ring" in Lebanon, with over 70 individuals accused of working for Israel captured.

Add to that the more recent announcement by Egyptian counterintelligence about the arrest of several Israeli agents, that were also probably narked by the FSB.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Russians were trying to punish Israel for their work against the Iranian nuke plant. But it could be anything under the sun that has put a bee in their bonnet.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-01-10 15:58  

#6  Major Strasser's been shot.

Round up the usual suspects.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2011-01-10 14:46  

#5  From the JP article, "...Iranian Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi also said Iran has built a plant to make nuclear fuel plates and rods in Isfahan..."

At first I thought that the Mullahs were planning to make nuclear vehicle license plates. If both the front and the back were made of a thick piece of PL 239 and if a car ran into your rear the combined mass would be enough to go critical.

cool
Posted by: Lord Garth   2011-01-10 14:15  

#4  Got some links to back that up Anonymoose? (Seriously, no challenge just very interested)
Posted by: Phaiger Trotsky4912   2011-01-10 13:56  

#3  And here I was thinking the Iranians shot down more vultures.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-01-10 12:34  

#2  Considering the source, BULLSHIT.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-01-10 12:24  

#1  There seems to be a cold war going on between Russia and Israel right now, because the Russians have been very active in unmasking Israeli espionage ops in other countries.

They bring in high tech electronic surveillance equipment to locate the Israeli spies, then once identified, the local tyrant's secret police can roll up a whole group at once.

Which makes you wonder both what started it, and how the Israelis will pay back the Russians.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-01-10 12:23  

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