N-scientist murder fuels outrage in Tehran

[FarCenter]

Tensions between Iran and the West, already on razor's edge, rose further on Wednesday after a young Iranian nuclear scientist heading for work was assassinated, 48 hours after Tehran declared that its capacity to enrich uranium had recorded a significant advance.

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, the 32-year old deputy director for commercial affairs at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, was killed when a magnetic bomb planted under his car by an unidentified motorcyclist exploded. Mr. Behdast was also a professor at Tehran's Technical University. The driver died later. The assassination of a scientist at Natanz — one of the two key facilities where uranium enrichment is being carried out — was a deadly riposte to Iran's defiant assertion two days ago that it had, in the teeth of western opposition, managed on its own to enrich uranium to a 20 per cent level. Iran's permanent representative to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh in an interview to Mehr News Agency declared that after its recent success at the Fardo facility near Qom, Iran is now in a position to fabricate fuel plates for a test reactor used for producing nuclear medicine that was required to treat cancer patients.

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On Wednesday, the French daily Le Figaro, quoting a security source from Baghdad, also reported that agents from the Israeli spy agency Mossad are recruiting and training Iranian dissidents from Iraq's Kurdish region to work against the regime in Tehran.

“Our enemies are seeing that sanctions and pressure are not sufficient, so they are seeking to create an atmosphere that is driven by a need for security,” said Safar-Ali Bratlou, Tehran's Deputy-Governor, according to FNA.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2792928.ece


Contre l'Iran, le Mossad a renforcé ses infiltrations chez les Kurdes d'Irak
http://blog.lefigaro.fr/malbrunot/2012/01/contre-liran-le-mossad-a-renfo.html

[Bonobo]

1. Oh come on now... You don't think the USA would do something like THAT, do you?

Errrr, ummm....

Actually the assassinates ANYWAY they feel is a threat to their vague idea of security and even writes and signs laws giving themselves ironclad immunity for doing so.

The USA gives itself the right to kill ANYONE, ANYWHERE whether they are US citizens or not, even children under 18 are not immune.

So why would anyone NOT believe the US is fully capable of doing it.

If they DID NOT do it, the USA should at least understand that their recent actions make it very easy to accuse them of having done so and to convincingly make the argument.