Iran Rebels Say Kidnap Nuclear Expert

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Reuters


Published: October 10, 2010
Filed at 10:30 a.m. ET

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian Sunni rebels said on Sunday they had kidnapped a nuclear scientist and would publish secrets he knows about Iran's nuclear program unless 200 political prisoners were released.

Authorities dismissed the threat and denied the man was a nuclear expert, saying he had been a laborer for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.

Jundollah rebels seized the man they said was an employee of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and are holding him in the mountains in their southeastern heartland in Sistan-Baluchestan province, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"If the regime does not free (the prisoners) by next week all the information extracted from Mr Amir Hossein Shirani will be released and the whole world will become aware of the regime's clandestine nuclear activities," Jundollah said on its website.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/10/10/world/international-us-iran-rebels-kidnap.html?ref=world

[Phil The Cat]

1. The Central Intelligence Agency

Your tax dollars at work!

The IAEA and everyone else in a position to know, knows the Iranian nuclear program is for the peaceful production of electricity!

But even if it wasn't, as a sovereign state, don't they have the right to defend themselves with the same weapons that their enemies are using?

[Chan790]

2. The NPT requires all signatories to act to to prevent creation of new nuke-capable states.

The IAEA investigates allegations of NPT violations but its' findings are not binding upon signatories who are not merely authorized to act to prevent proliferation but obligated to do so.

So no, they don't have the right to defend themselves with the same weapons that their enemies are using. We have an obligation to interfere.

So, hooray for the CIA! I'd much rather this occur than letting Iran develop the bomb then having deal with the repercussions of a shooting war.

[cstanleytech]

4. Much as I hate to say it i have to agree that

Iran having nukes would probably be a bad thing.
What makes me sad though is just before Bush came into office it seemed that Iran was finally becoming a stable and more enlightened country but then they did the whole student crackdown and regressed to their old strict totalitarian ways.

[Drale]

3. So

you want a crazy fundamentalist religious nut bag, who openly calls for the extermination of the Jewish people to have weapons which he can do that plus so much more damage?