Iran TV airs confessions in murder of scientists

[bananas]

Source: Associated Press

Iranian state television on Sunday broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.

The broadcast showed some of the suspects re-enacting the assassinations in different districts of the capital Tehran. The 14 suspects shown on TV included eight men and six women.

The TV showed pictures from a military garrison it said was a training camp outside Tel Aviv in Israel. It said the suspects took courses there, including how to place magnetic bombs on cars — the method used in the killing of the scientists.

Iran says the attacks are part of a covert campaign by Israel and the West to sabotage its nuclear program, which the U.S. and its allies suspect is aimed at producing nuclear weapons. Iran denies that.

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[MADem]

1. They tried a little quid pro quo but couldn't make it work...

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/irans-revolutionary-guard-accused-israeli-embassy-bombing-report/story?id=16888481#.UB7pr02PXg8

Interpol had issued arrest warrants for four of the suspects in the New Delhi attack in March. The Times of India, citing the police investigation, adds biographical detail, describing Houshang Afshar Irani, who allegedly drove past the Israeli car on a motorcycle and attached the "sticky" explosive device, as a builder. Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, the alleged mastermind, is identified as a salesman. Their alleged accomplices, Syed Ali Mahdiansadr and Mohammed Reza Abolghasemi, are identified as a "mobile shopkeeper" and a clerk at the Tehran water authority respectively.

Two of the men are also wanted by Thai police in connection with an alleged plot to attack Israeli targets in Bangkok. On February 14, the day after the New Delhi attack, several men allegedly fled a rented Bangkok house after an explosion inside. One of the men allegedly blew off his own legs while attacking a taxi driver and police with bombs as he tried to leave the scene. Police allegedly found two unexploded bombs in the house vacated by the Iranians.

The Times of India says Indian police are seeking Ali Akbar Norouzishayan, who Thai police claim was spotted on security camera footage leaving the Bangkok house after the explosion. Interpol has not issued a warrant for Norouzishayan, whom the Times describes as a retired accountant in Tehran.

Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, also sought by the Indians, is being held in Malaysia, where he is fighting his extradition to Thailand. He was arrested in Kuala Lumpur while attempting to return to Iran a day after the Bangkok blast. Indian authorities have also reportedly accused him of taking part in a plot in Tbilisi, Georgia, where an unexploded bomb was found on an Israeli vehicle the same day as the New Delhi bombing.

[leveymg]

2. Whenever one sees the US brings "our" terrorists here for training, or the Israelis do that inside

Israel, I have to question the sanity and basic intelligence of the intelligence officers running those programs.

Seems inconceivably stupid, but it happens.

[oberliner]

3. You actually buy this story?

Doesn't seem fishy at all to you?

[leveymg]

7. My initial response was the same as yours.

But, then I thought about it, and asked myself why would the Iranians make up some detail like that which seems so implausible, unless it really is fact?

I'm still highly skeptical, but given that we brought hundreds of Mujahadin (aka, al-Qaeda) into the US for training during Operation Cyclone and for years after the Soviets evacuated Afghanistan, this story is at least plausible.

[JDPriestly]

5. I don't believe the Iranians' story.

[oberliner]

4. Any chance this might be bogus?

Thoughts from the DU community?

[kickysnana]

6. Earlier articles when information on Israel was deleted more often said

that Iran's Intelligence is second only to Israel and Israel has agents all over the world, most recently noted in South America.

A planting of WMD went awry and injured many people early in an operation the Iraq fiasco.

Our CIA has not bounds, limits or ethics. We go and do pretty much what we please everywhere.
Not too long ago we elected a former head of the CIA as President. Most Americans are mentally lazy, uneducated and naive and very proud of it.

[leveymg]

8. As for your last comment, we've been paying for it ever since.

Which to a large extent explains why we've fallen further and harder than any other great power save the Soviets, who were even more proud of their splendid isolation in a Pretend World than we are.

They've hit bottom and sobered up a bit. We have yet to get there. Witness how we're dealing with events in th Mideast and Persian Gulf.