Iran says U.S. agents assassinated Iranian scientist

[Ebusitanus]

TEHRAN (Reuters) – A remote-controlled bomb killed a Tehran University scientist on Tuesday, official media reported, in an attack Iran blamed on the United States.

Iranian officials and state media described slain professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi as a nuclear scientist, but a spokesman said he did not work for the Atomic Energy Organization at the center of Iran's disputed nuclear program.

Iran's cabinet in a statement blamed agents of the United States for the killing of Ali-Mohammadi. A State Department official in Washington said charges of U.S. involvement were absurd.

"America's spying and intelligence agents from one side abduct some Iranian citizens ... and on the other side their treacherous agents kill an Iranian citizen inside the country," the cabinet statement said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

A list of his publications on Tehran University's website suggested his specialism was theoretical particle physics, not nuclear energy, a Western physics professor said.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100112/...bomb_professor

Iranian scientist killed by bomb had opposition links

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ion-links.html

Opposition movement supporters also said he was on a list of 240 academic backers of Mr Moussavi published before last year's disputed election.

Last spring he attended the wedding of Mehdi Shirzad, whose father is a prominent member of the opposition Participation Front, and who was arrested last September. The Front was active in Mr Moussavi's election campaign in June.

I'm actually inclined in this instance to believe the claims of the Pentagon's PR mouthpieces. US 'intelligence' cannot infiltrate a public library, let alone an Iranian nuclear program that's probably largely hidden under the desert sands.

[xcorps]

"America's spying and intelligence agents from one side abduct some Iranian citizens ... and on the other side their treacherous agents kill an Iranian citizen inside the country," the cabinet statement said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

If they were treacherous agents, wouldn't they be bombing American scientists?

[BlackPirate]

Mossad has a great tradition in assasination.Israeli agents even killed a Canadian who worked for Iraq.Why should they hesitate in assasinating an Iranian scientist?

[xcorps]

I don't understand your reference to Mossad. Mossad isn't mentioned in the OP.

[Heinz Guderian]

Pretty good piece of wetwork

[Caelius]

I'm actually inclined in this instance to believe the claims of the Pentagon's PR mouthpieces. US 'intelligence' cannot infiltrate a public library, let alone an Iranian nuclear program that's probably largely hidden under the desert sands.

Actually the US can....and has.

There's a reason why the Iranians suffered all those setbacks about two years ago related to their centrifuge program. We sabotaged them.



This particular incident on the other hand isn't of American handiwork however, on that I would agree.

This kind of thing just isn't the American style, we prefer either drones with missiles or deaths by "natural causes" like heart-attacks, or just plain old "unexplained circumstances", like what happened to some of the Saudi Royal Princes after 9/11.

Nothing this direct that would attract so much attention.

It's right up the alley of agencies like Mossad or MI6 on the other hand. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the French either considering their defense establishment's hostility to Iran's nuclear program.

[Nevins]

I don't understand your reference to Mossad. Mossad isn't mentioned in the OP.

Did you forget? Mossad is the organization that unites the western world and kills anyone whom they consider a threat to Zionism.

[xcorps]

Did you forget? Mossad is the organization that unites the western world and kills anyone whom they consider a threat to Zionism.

LOL. That's what it says on my membership card!

[s.rwitt]

Delete.

[xcorps]

Since we're speculating, I'm going with Iran whacking him for going to the wedding.

[Heinz Guderian]

He's apparently not connected to the nuclear programme. But he's pretty important and a backer of an opposition candidate. Maybe the Iranians have been naughty.

[Blau&Gruen]

He is said having called up his students to join the demonstrations.

[alhoon]

I just hope no more such deaths are caused by anyone, Persia, USA, Israel, England, France. Whether he was working on nukes or not, he was serving his country, so may he rest in peace.

[The Devil's Sergeant]

I wonder how many years it will take to declassify the truth about this. And by then will anyone care?

[Heinz Guderian]

This "Monarchy Party" which "claimed" responsibilty sounds like a crock of ****

[Blau&Gruen]

It would not be the first serial killings there.

[Exarch]

if found to be true
this is highly illegal and the US service ppl responsible can be prosecuted for this

[Nevins]

if found to be true
this is highly illegal and the US service ppl responsible can be prosecuted for this

Have anything beyond your own intuition to go on?

[Blau&Gruen]

The widow of the victim is said to have published a letter during the day in which she says that her husband was a Musavi supporter.

[s.rwitt]

Maybe the Iranians have been naughty.

Iranians doing something wrong? The hell you say!

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if found to be true
this is highly illegal and the US service ppl responsible can be prosecuted for this

It's not and they wouldn't.