Bomb Blast Kills One Iranian Nuclear Scientist, Attackers Wound Another

[irishspirit]

Iranian state TV website: Bomb blast kills one Iranian nuclear scientist, attackers wound another.


http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=12263125

Iran's atomic chief warned "enemies" of the Islamic republic they were "playing with fire" after a prominent nuclear scientist was reportedly killed Monday in a bomb blast blamed on Israel.

"Don't play with fire. Iranians' patience is limited and if their patience runs out, our enemies will have a bad fate," Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Iran_warns_enemies_after_top_nuclear_scientist_killed_999.html

My oh my oh my! This world is on the verge. It is coming from every direction!

[irishspirit]

An Iranian academic has been killed and another university professor and his wife wounded in two separate car explosions in Tehran.


Yet unknown terrorists exploded the cars of Dr. Majid Shahriari and professor Fereydoun Abbasi in separate places on Monday morning between 7-8 a.m. local time, IRNA reported.

Shahriari was killed immediately, but professor Abbasi and his wife received injuries and were transferred to hospital.

The two were professors at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.

Tehran Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia said a motorcycle approached Shahriari's car and attached a bomb to the car which exploded a few seconds later.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/153089.html

[Rocky_Shorz]

well remember the nut in charge of Iran really doesn't care...


PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. diplomatic cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks include remarks from an Iran source in 2009 saying Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has terminal cancer, French daily Le Monde reported.

The source, a non-Iranian businessman based in Central Asia and traveling often to Tehran, "has learned from one of his contacts that (former president Ali Akbar) Rafsanjani told him Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has terminal stage leukemia and could die in a few months," according to an August 2009 cable.

The document, written by a U.S. diplomat, says that Rafsanjani, a critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has expressed sympathies with Iran's reformist movement, decided on learning of Khamenei's illness to start preparing himself to be a successor.

story link (http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22300:wikileaks-says-irans-khamenei-has-cancer-report&catid=4:iran-general&Itemid=26)

[Fredkc]

I have always believed that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn't even in charge of his wardrobe. The Mullahs run the place.

Ahmadinejad is basically the "fool on the stool", someone placed in public view to say outrageous things while the real show happens elsewhere.
IMO he is just noise.

But, I also get fooled occasionally. ;)
Fred

[irishspirit]

Iran blames Israel for nuke scientist slaying

TEHRAN, Iran — Assailants on motorcycles attached magnetized bombs to the cars of two nuclear scientists as they were driving to work in Tehran on Monday, killing one and wounding the other, Iranian officials said. The president accused Israel and the West of being behind the attacks.

Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said the man killed was involved in a major project with the country's nuclear agency, though he did not give specifics. Some Iranian media reported that the wounded scientist was a laser expert at Iran's Defense Ministry and one of the country's few top specialists in nuclear isotope separation.

Iranian officials said they suspected the assassination was part of a covert campaign aimed at damaging the country's nuclear program, which the United States and its allies says is intended to build a weapon — a claim Tehran denies. At least two other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in recent years, one of them in an attack similar to Monday's.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40412396/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

[Sensual One]

Classic Mossad hit.

[Rocky_Shorz]

but then again...


A BOMBING attack on two Iranian nuclear experts, killing one, may have been a government hit designed to prevent the release of secrets, analysts claim.

As Iran openly blamed Israel and the US for the attack on Monday night (AEDT) on Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbasi, the connection between the victims has raised fears that a hit squad is targeting Iranian nuclear experts...


"There must be a lot of nuclear scientists in Iran getting very worried right now," Ali Ansari, the director of the Iranian institute at the University of St Andrews, said.

Shahriari was the second nuclear scientist to be killed in Tehran this year...


In January Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed by a bomb strapped to a motorcycle parked outside his house. Ali-Mohammadi shared professional links with the victims of the latest attack.

He and Shahriari worked on the Sesame Council, a bilateral particle accelerator project in Jordan. Their work would have introduced them to experts in their field from across the world, including Israel. Dr Abbasi and Ali-Mohammadi both taught at Imam Hussein University for the Revolutionary Guard.

After his murder it emerged that Ali-Mohammadi was a sympathiser with the pro-reform opposition movement and had been at demonstrations after the disputed presidential election last year. It was claimed he had planned to flee Iran and was killed by the government before he could escape...


"After the 2009 elections the brutal crackdown swelled the ranks of the democracy movement among the people and among officials, and that includes members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Council. They've had to purge hundreds from among their own ranks," he said.

He added that if the men had covertly joined the reform movement, the regime could have attacked them to prevent them from leaking secrets and to send a message to other scientists...



link (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/iran-behind-scientist-killings-analysts/story-e6frg6so-1225963518164)