Report: Bomb kills official at Iran nuke facility
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Associated Press 59 mins ago
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs on Wednesday to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two others, a semiofficial news agency reported.
The attack in Tehran strongly resembles earlier killings of scientists working on the country's controversial nuclear program.
The bomb explosion 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.
The killing of Roshan was similar to previous assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists that Tehran has blamed on Israel and the United States. Both countries have denied the accusations.
http://news.yahoo.com/report-bomb-kills-official-iran-nuke-facility-073637225.html
tabatha
(18,795 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)The Secret War With Iran - NYTimes.com
COMMUTING to work in Tehran is never easy, but it is particularly nerve-racking these days for the scientists of Shahid Beheshti University. It was a little less than a year ago when one of them, Majid Shahriari, and his wife were stuck in traffic at 7:40 a.m. and a motorcycle pulled up alongside the car. There was a faint click as a magnet attached to the drivers side door. The huge explosion came a few seconds later, killing him and injuring his wife.
On the other side of town, 20 minutes later, a nearly identical attack played out against Mr. Shahriaris colleague Fereydoon Abbasi, a nuclear scientist and longtime member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Perhaps because of his military training, Mr. Abbasi recognized what was happening, and pulled himself and his wife out the door just before his car turned into a fireball. Iran has charged that Israel was behind the attacks and many outsiders believe the sticky bombs are the hallmarks of a Mossad hit.
Perhaps to make a point, Mr. Abbasi, now recovered from his injuries, has been made the director of Irans atomic energy program. He travels the world offering assurances that Irans interest in nuclear weapons is peaceful.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/sunday-review/the-secret-war-with-iran.html?pagewanted=all
tabatha
(18,795 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Not a trait peculiar to them, mind you.
I dunno what to make of these stories. If the Mossad or the US is doing it, it's stupid, as in unlikely to have the desired effect, or to have the oppopsite of the desired effect.
If the Iranian government is doing it, then it's desperate.
Anybody else, you have to wonder about motives, and personal issues don't seem to work when you consider all of these occurrences.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)It could have been sourced from Mossad to this particular individual.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)tabatha
(18,795 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)I was not criticising you, I was just pointing out that this often happens.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)If the goal is to stop the Iranian nuke program, I prefer these sort of precise targeted attacks to indescriminate bombing of facililties.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)First of all, there is still no hard evidence that Iran is even building nuclear weapons.
Secondly, even if they were, is murder an acceptable method of trying to stop them?
DCBob
(24,689 posts)My point is this beats bombing entire buildings and perhaps killing hundreds of innocent people.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Iran would be insane NOT to be trying to get nuclear weapons as fast as possible.
But their protection of their nuclear community is wholly inadequate. Obviously.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Or to reassure them (no matter how pissed off they are about the multiple hits on their nuclear scientists)?
Think about it.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)we would call it terrorism, because that is exactly what it is.
(1) the term international terrorism means activities that
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping;
(C) occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum;
[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2331.html|
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Could be Mossad
tabatha
(18,795 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Good work.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)I said I had reason to believe. My reasoning followed a post by someone on another blog. This person appears to have connections to some military organizations in Europe. This person maintained that Gaddafi was in Sirte, while the media was saying he was in the south of Libya. This person reported the Iran attack some many hours before it was reported in the news.
Thus I said "reason to believe" rather than "knowledge of facts".
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)I guess history is a thing of the past.
No pun intended.
BHN