Iran nuclear scientist killed..who done it?

[CaughtInTheMid]

iran will eventually get a nuke. i wonder who they'll use their first one on.

 

[Mustang]

Could be the Saudis...

 

[Unkotare]

It was a sophisticated device placed on the scientist's car with magnets by a couple of assassins on motorcycles. Who would benefit from killing an Iranian nuclear scientist? The US? Israel? Obama has demonstrated that he is not afraid to engage in political assassinations. How about the CIA? Could Barry maintain plausible deniability if the CIA operated independently?

If we did it, why deny it? Fuck them. It's a service to the fine Iranian people.

 

[Unkotare]

If Israel was involved that means it was authorized by the US, .

Not necessarily.

 

[Dr.Traveler]

If you think the US should go around the world and knock off civilians we don't like it opens a big can 'O worms. Of course only a democrat administration gets away with political assassinations. Could Israel get away with it without the cooperation of the CIA? If so what the hell do we pay the CIA for.

Yes. Very seriously. Israel has the absolute best covert operations outfit in the world. It's how they've survived so long. They're almost certainly responsible, and almost certainly will never get caught. An operation like this wouldn't be run past the CIA or the USA at all.

I doubt very seriously that the USA is behind it. We would probably do it if we could have but the CIA has been very short of actual assets they could use to pull off an operation like this for years. If it was done by special forces they'd have probably targetted a military installation, rather than a scientist, plus special forces missions have a different feel to them once they become public.

It is possible that the Saudi's hired someone to pull this off. They'd very much like to become the power in the region, see themselves as the regional power, and don't take kindly to others who seek to become the regional power.

 

[ABikerSailor]

It was a sophisticated device placed on the scientist's car with magnets by a couple of assassins on motorcycles. Who would benefit from killing an Iranian nuclear scientist? The US? Israel? Obama has demonstrated that he is not afraid to engage in political assassinations. How about the CIA? Could Barry maintain plausible deniability if the CIA operated independently?

If we did it, why deny it? Fuck them. It's a service to the fine Iranian people.

Because if we actually did do it, and admitted it, that could be considered an act of war against Iran.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

If you think the US should go around the world and knock off civilians we don't like it opens a big can 'O worms. Of course only a democrat administration gets away with political assassinations. Could Israel get away with it without the cooperation of the CIA? If so what the hell do we pay the CIA for.

My money is on CIA. This reeks of the kind of thing our government does. The only thing different is that it actually hit the news.

The truth will come out eventually. Always does.

You obviously haven't been to the Conspiracy section, according to the truters we still don't know the truth about 9/11.

 

[Jos]

A nuclear scientist who supervised a department at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility has been killed by a magnetic bomb placed on his car by two assailants in northern Tehran, Iranian media reported.

The attack strongly resembles earlier killings of scientists working on the country's controversial nuclear programme.

The bomb explosion killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz facility in central Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said Israeli agents were behind the attack, but said they cannot "prevent progress'' in what Iran claims are peaceful nuclear efforts.

Safar Ali Baratloo, a senior security official, was also quoted by Fars as saying the attack was the work of Israelis.

"The magnetic bomb is of the same types already used to assassinate our scientists," he said.

Roshan, 32, was inside the Iranian-assembled Peugeot 405 with two others when the bomb expoded near Gol Nabi Street, Fars reported.

Fars described the explosion as a "terrorist attack" targeting Roshan, a graduate of the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.

"The deputy governor of Tehran is blaming [the attack] on Israel, saying it wants to destabilise the country ahead of presidential elections in March," Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari said.

"But it's unclear as to how, in such a secure city as Tehran, such attacks can take place over and over again."

Previous attacks

Ahmadi Roshan was "working as the deputy in charge of commerce at the Natanz [uranium enrichment] site", said a posting on Sharif University's website. "He was working on project of making polymeric membrane for separating gas."

A similar bomb explosion on January 12, 2010, killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor at Tehran University, when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his car as he was about to leave for work.

In November 2010, a pair of back-to-back bomb attacks in different parts of the capital killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another.

The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, was a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran and co-operated with the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.

The wounded scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, was almost immediately appointed head of Iran's atomic agency.

In July 2011, motorcycle-riding gunmen killed Darioush Rezaeinejad, an electronics student. Other reports identified him as a scientist involved in suspected Iranian attempts to make nuclear weapons.

Rezaeinejad allegedly participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component in setting off the explosions needed to trigger a nuclear warhead.

Imad Khadduri, a nuclear expert, told Al Jazeera, "There are hundreds, if not thousands, of such scientists", beyond the five targeted in recent attacks.

He said the string of assassinations was "100 per cent Mossad [Israel's secret service]", but he called the victims "small fish".

Ronen Bergman, an Israeli author and journalist, told Al Jazeera that "for years Mossad has a tradition of assassinating scientists", for two specific purposes.

"One target is to take out people of profound importance [to the project], and the second target is to spread fear among the other scientists that the same fate may happen to them as well."

According to Ronen, the assassination demonstrated that "someone is highly capable in recruiting people from within the project and sabotaging it".

'Unnatural' events

Wednesday's assassination is "evidence of [foreign] government-sponsored terrorism" but will not stop Iran's nuclear programme, Rahimi told state television.

"Today those who claim to be combatting terrorism have targeted Iranian scientists," he said. "They should know that Iranian scientists are more determined than ever in striding towards Iran's progress."

The United States and Israel say Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons technology. Iran denies the allegations, saying that its programme is intended for peaceful purposes.

There was no immediate word from officials in Israel, which has always declined comment on previous such bombings.

On Tuesday, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, Israel's military chief of staff, was quoted as saying that Iran should expect more "unnatural" events in 2012.

His comments, to a closed-door parliamentary panel, were widely interpreted as alluding to previous acts of sabotage.

"For Iran, 2012 is a critical year in combining the continuation of its nuclearisation, internal changes in the Iranian leadership, continuing and growing pressure from the international community and things which take place in an unnatural manner," Gantz was quoted as saying.
Iran nuclear scientist 'killed' by car bomb - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

It was a sophisticated device placed on the scientist's car with magnets by a couple of assassins on motorcycles. Who would benefit from killing an Iranian nuclear scientist? The US? Israel? Obama has demonstrated that he is not afraid to engage in political assassinations. How about the CIA? Could Barry maintain plausible deniability if the CIA operated independently?

If we did it, why deny it? Fuck them. It's a service to the fine Iranian people.

Because if we actually did do it, and admitted it, that could be considered an act of war against Iran.

kinda weird that you had to explain that.

 

[Unkotare]

It was a sophisticated device placed on the scientist's car with magnets by a couple of assassins on motorcycles. Who would benefit from killing an Iranian nuclear scientist? The US? Israel? Obama has demonstrated that he is not afraid to engage in political assassinations. How about the CIA? Could Barry maintain plausible deniability if the CIA operated independently?

If we did it, why deny it? Fuck them. It's a service to the fine Iranian people.

Because if we actually did do it, and admitted it, that could be considered an act of war against Iran.

...and?

 

[ABikerSailor]

If we did it, why deny it? Fuck them. It's a service to the fine Iranian people.

Because if we actually did do it, and admitted it, that could be considered an act of war against Iran.

...and?

We don't need another war, especially not with a nutcase country like Iran.

We should finish the ones we have before starting another one.

 

[Unkotare]

Because if we actually did do it, and admitted it, that could be considered an act of war against Iran.

...and?

We don't need another war, especially not with a nutcase country like Iran.

We should finish the ones we have before starting another one.

You think the shitheels ruling that country don't already consider themselves at 'war' with us?

 

[ABikerSailor]

...and?

We don't need another war, especially not with a nutcase country like Iran.

We should finish the ones we have before starting another one.

You think the shitheels ruling that country don't already consider themselves at 'war' with us?

No shots have been fired yet. Besides, if there is an actual war, the first thing Iran is probably gonna do is shut down the Straits of Hormuz.

 

[Unkotare]

We don't need another war, especially not with a nutcase country like Iran.

We should finish the ones we have before starting another one.

You think the shitheels ruling that country don't already consider themselves at 'war' with us?

No shots have been fired yet. Besides, if there is an actual war, the first thing Iran is probably gonna do is shut down the Straits of Hormuz.

Many, many shots have already been fired, and Iran will "shut down Hormuz" when and if we fucking let them.

 

[paulitician]

Obviously the U.S. and Israel done it. No mystery on this one.

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

when people like this, in other countries, are murdered, do you guys think of their families?

 

[High_Gravity]

Could be the Saudis...

Saudis could have financed the operation but they don't have people with those kind of skills to deploy against the Iranians.

 

[High_Gravity]

...and?

We don't need another war, especially not with a nutcase country like Iran.

We should finish the ones we have before starting another one.

You think the shitheels ruling that country don't already consider themselves at 'war' with us?

That lunatic regime has considered itself at war with the US since its birth in 1979.

 

[Mustang]

Could be the Saudis...

Saudis could have financed the operation but they don't have people with those kind of skills to deploy against the Iranians.

Riding a motorcycle is not a particularly specialized skill.

Frankly, the Saudis have plenty of reasons to want to kill Iran's scientists. First of all, the Saudis are Arabs, and the Iranians are Persians.
Secondly, the Saudis are 90% Sunni. The Iranians are 90% Shia.
Thirdly, Iran tried to kill the Saudi US ambassador.
Additionally, Iran is threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Finally, Iran's nuclear program threatens to start a nuclear arms race in the region.

 

[amrchaos]

It could have been the Tehran mafia. Scientist tried to skip out on his debts from chasing all the illegal hookers and gambling.