Report: Bomb kills official at Iran nuke facility

[ellisonz]

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Associated Press – 59 mins ago

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs on Wednesday to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two others, a semiofficial news agency reported.

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

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

The killing of Roshan was similar to previous assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists that Tehran has blamed on Israel and the United States. Both countries have denied the accusations.

http://news.yahoo.com/report-bomb-kills-official-iran-nuke-facility-073637225.html

[tabatha]

1. I read about this more than 6 hours ago on another blog, and could not find any news.

[jakeXT]

3. Not the first one, maybe you've read about older explosions

The Secret War With Iran - NYTimes.com

COMMUTING to work in Tehran is never easy, but it is particularly nerve-racking these days for the scientists of Shahid Beheshti University. It was a little less than a year ago when one of them, Majid Shahriari, and his wife were stuck in traffic at 7:40 a.m. and a motorcycle pulled up alongside the car. There was a faint “click” as a magnet attached to the driver’s side door. The huge explosion came a few seconds later, killing him and injuring his wife.

On the other side of town, 20 minutes later, a nearly identical attack played out against Mr. Shahriari’s colleague Fereydoon Abbasi, a nuclear scientist and longtime member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Perhaps because of his military training, Mr. Abbasi recognized what was happening, and pulled himself and his wife out the door just before his car turned into a fireball. Iran has charged that Israel was behind the attacks — and many outsiders believe the “sticky bombs” are the hallmarks of a Mossad hit.

Perhaps to make a point, Mr. Abbasi, now recovered from his injuries, has been made the director of Iran’s atomic energy program. He travels the world offering assurances that Iran’s interest in nuclear weapons is peaceful.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/sunday-review/the-secret-war-with-iran.html?pagewanted=all

[tabatha]

9. No, it was specifically for yesterday.

[bemildred]

11. You will see a lot on Iranian news sources that does not get copied around.

Not a trait peculiar to them, mind you.

I dunno what to make of these stories. If the Mossad or the US is doing it, it's stupid, as in unlikely to have the desired effect, or to have the oppopsite of the desired effect.

If the Iranian government is doing it, then it's desperate.

Anybody else, you have to wonder about motives, and personal issues don't seem to work when you consider all of these occurrences.

[tabatha]

12. The source was not Iranian.

It could have been sourced from Mossad to this particular individual.

[bemildred]

13. The OP is from Yahoo, the source is FARS (according to Yahoo.) nt

[tabatha]

15. I was talking about my source that posted this info long before it was on the news.

[bemildred]

19. Right, and I was talkng about FARS.

I was not criticising you, I was just pointing out that this often happens.

[DCBob]

2. Mossad must be involved in this..

If the goal is to stop the Iranian nuke program, I prefer these sort of precise targeted attacks to indescriminate bombing of facililties.

[Hugabear]

5. So you would support cold-blooded murder?

First of all, there is still no hard evidence that Iran is even building nuclear weapons.

Secondly, even if they were, is murder an acceptable method of trying to stop them?

[DCBob]

14. No.. Im not even sure we have any business deciding who should and who shouldnt have nukes.

My point is this beats bombing entire buildings and perhaps killing hundreds of innocent people.

[aquart]

17. Since we provided ample proof of military aggression toward non-nuclear nations

Iran would be insane NOT to be trying to get nuclear weapons as fast as possible.

But their protection of their nuclear community is wholly inadequate. Obviously.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Why should murder OR indiscriminate bombing be an acceptable occurrence?

[ronnie624]

7. Committed against the U.S., this would be termed 'terrorism'. n/t

[aquart]

18. Is it an event meant to terrify the Iranian people?

Or to reassure them (no matter how pissed off they are about the multiple hits on their nuclear scientists)?

Think about it.

[ronnie624]

21. If nuclear scientist were being murdered in the U.S. by another government,

we would call it terrorism, because that is exactly what it is.

(1) the term “international terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping;
(C) occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum;

[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2331.html|

[Baclava]

4. Right out of a Bourne movie - "Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs..."

Could be Mossad

[tabatha]

10. Yep, I have reason to believe that it is Mossad.

[aquart]

16. And yet, no evidence, no links.

Good work.

[tabatha]

20. I did not say I had facts.

I said I had reason to believe. My reasoning followed a post by someone on another blog. This person appears to have connections to some military organizations in Europe. This person maintained that Gaddafi was in Sirte, while the media was saying he was in the south of Libya. This person reported the Iran attack some many hours before it was reported in the news.

Thus I said "reason to believe" rather than "knowledge of facts".

[BeHereNow]

8. Gee, where have we seen this before?

I guess history is a thing of the past.
No pun intended.
BHN