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Iranian Nuke Scientist Killed
Topic Started: Nov 29 2010, 01:02 PM (277 Views)
George K
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Finally
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/29/world/main7098475.shtml

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Bombs Kill, Injure 2 Iran Nuclear Scientists

TEHRAN, Nov. 29, 2010
State TV Reports Prominent Nuke Scientists Targeted in Apparent Drive-By Bombings

(CBS/AP) Updated 3:41 p.m. ET

Iran's state TV says separate but identical bomb attacks have killed a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist and wounded another in the capital, Tehran.

The state television website says attackers riding on motorcycles attached bombs to the car windows of the scientists as they were driving to their workplaces on Monday morning.

One bomb killed Majid Shahriari, a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Tehran University, and wounded his wife.

The second blast seriously wounded nuclear physicist Fereidoun Abbasi.

Abbasi was named on a list of nuclear personnel under an international travel ban and asset freeze, under a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution.

According to the resolution, Abbasi is a Defense Ministry scientist with links to the Institute of Applied Physics, and working closely with Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, another nuclear scientist on the sanctions list.

At least two other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in recent years. Iran has said it suspects the attacks were part of a covert attempt by the West to undermine the country's nuclear program.


But wait! It gets more interesting: http://www.debka.com/article/20406/
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Prof. Majid Shahriari, who died when his car was attacked in North Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, headed the team Iran established for combating the Stuxnet virus rampaging through its nuclear and military networks. His wife was injured. The scientist's death deals a major blow to Iran's herculean efforts to purge its nuclear and military control systems of the destructive worm since it went on the offensive six months ago. Only this month, Stuxnet shut down nuclear enrichment at Natanz for six days from Nov. 16-22 and curtailed an important air defense exercise.

Prof. Shahriari was the Iranian nuclear program's top expert on computer codes and cyber war. .

Another Iranian nuclear scientist, Prof. Feredoun Abbassi-Davani, and his wife survived a second coordinated attack with serious injuries. He is Dean of Students, a key political post at the university
Ali Salehi, Director of Iran's Nuclear Energy Commission, reacted bitterly that there is a limit to Iran's patience and whoever committed the murder is playing with fire. Tehran held US intelligence and the Israeli Mossad for responsible for the scientist's death.

Tehran's official account of the attacks is only half-correct, are sources report. There were indeed two motorcycle teams of two riders each who shadowed the scientists' vehicles on their way to their laboratories and offices at Beheshti Basij Forces University in North Teheran early Monday. It was initially reported that the motorcyclists sped past them, attached explosives to the targeted Peugeots and were gone before they exploded.

However, the first photos of the scientists' vehicles showed them to be riddled with bullet holes rather than explosive damage, meaning they were hit by drive-by shooters.

It is important to note that the attacks took place in the most secure district of Tehran, where the top-secret labs serving Iran's nuclear facilities are located. They must therefore have been set up after exhaustive and detailed surveillance.

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Frank_W
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Jeez.... And I thought MY commute was bad!
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Glad to see them having a bad day. That means it's been a good day for everyone else.
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jon-nyc
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Good stuff! Strike some fear in to the hearts of the rest of them, too.


I do rather wonder how they'll retaliate.
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Copper
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Good news.
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Renauda
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I do rather wonder how they'll retaliate


With a lot of bluster and Hezbollah
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Mikhailoh
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Well now. I was having a pretty carpy Monday until now.

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Frank_W
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And predictably, they blame Israel. :rolleyes:

Israel may have had a hand in this, but the kneejerk reaction is what makes me just shake my head.
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Piano*Dad
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The bombing (or shooting) could easily have been locally engineered (pun intended). This regime has plenty of enemies, domestic and foreign.

The worm is a more likely Israeli endeavor, though even there the evidence is far from conclusive.

Taken together, this seems like a logical response when normal politics and normal diplomacy are both disrupted by the regime's crafty intransigence. If you have absolutely no hope of effecting political change from within, and you have no hope of persuading from the outside, extra-legal remedies rise to the top of the pile of options. And when the consequences of political and diplomatic failure seem immense, no one should be terribly surprised at the nature of the operations we are seeing.
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Frank_W
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The exactitude of the targeting does seem to point the finger of suspicion at the Mossad, though...
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Mikhailoh
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Or us.
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Well, at least they died doing what we love. :D
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