Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed

[Windsor]

10:17am UK, Wednesday January 11, 2012

An Iranian nuclear scientist who worked at one of the country's uranium enrichment facilities has been killed by a bomb that had been attached to his car.

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, died after two unidentified men on a motorbike fastened a magnetic bomb to his vehicle outside a university in east Tehran. Two passengers in the car were wounded and taken to hospital, reports added. The dead scientist worked at Iran's uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, and officials were quick to blame Israel for the assassination.

"The responsibility of this explosion falls on the Zionist regime," said provincial governor Safar Bratloo. "The method of this terrorist action is similar to previous actions that targeted Iran's nuclear scientists."

Vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi also pointed the finger at "those who claim to be combatting terrorism" - a thinly-veiled accusation of American involvement.

"They should know that Iranian scientists are more determined than ever in striding towards Iran's progress," he said.

Mr Roshan is the fourth Iranian scientist to have been killed by a car bomb in the capital since early 2010.

The current head of Iran's atomic organisation, Fereydoun Abbasi, escaped another such incident in November 2010, when he managed to scramble out of his car with his wife just before the attached bomb exploded. Those attacks were viewed by Iranian officials as assassination operations carried out by Israel's Mossad intelligence service, possibly with help from its US counterparts. A student protest against the scientists' killings was being planned for Saturday, Iran's Fars news agency reported.

The latest bombing comes amid international tensions over Iran's nuclear programme, which the West believes conceals research to develop an atomic bomb.
Tehran has repeatedly denied that its nuclear programme is for anything other than peaceful purposes. Despite this, the United States has said "all options are on the table" in terms of dealing with Iran - including military action.

Iran has threatened to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf if Western sanctions target its oil industry. About of 20% of the world's oil passes through the narrow waterway.

The car belonging to Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan is taken away after the fatal bombing


The latest bombing follows the confirmation by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran had started uranium enrichment at a fortified underground bunker in Fordo. The United States, Britain, France, Germany and Italy viewed that development with alarm, saying it was a violation of UN Security Council resolutions on Iran.

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[singveld]

maybe he is the one who leak the information out to IAEA, and the Iran state send him a nice present. A ticking bomb,

 

[SeeFartLoong]

maybe he is the one who leak the information out to IAEA, and the Iran state send him a nice present. A ticking bomb,

Nope! It is THE Zionist swines be 200% sure!

 

[RonRon]

CIA did it again:oIo::oIo::oIo:

 

[Windsor]

CIA did it again:oIo::oIo::oIo:

Maybe Mossad or both CIA and Mossad. Anyway one of them did it.

 

[SeeFartLoong]

CIA did it again:oIo::oIo::oIo:

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Not possible. The CIA is now begging Iran to release their arrested spy. They won't provoke the immediate hanging of Iranian-American Amir Mirza Hekmati who is sentenced to hang.

Israeli Zionist swine did it. Be 200% sure.

 

[palden]

Must be Bush again.

 

[RonRon]

Maybe Mossad or both CIA and Mossad. Anyway one of them did it.

TEHRAN - An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a Tehran car bombing on Wednesday that the Islamic republic immediately blamed on Israel and the United States, worsening a tense international standoff over its atomic programme.

Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi told state television the attack would not stop Iran making "progress" in its nuclear activities.

Iranian officials noted that the assassination method - two men on a motorbike attaching a magnetic bomb to the target's vehicle - was similar to that used in the killings of three other of its scientists over the past two years.

Iran's parliament erupted with yells of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" after Wednesday's attack.

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, died immediately in the blast, which occurred in front of a university campus in east Tehran.

His driver/bodyguard later died of his wounds, the Fars and ILNA news agencies reported. A third occupant of the Peugeot 405 was wounded and in hospital.

Ahmadi Roshan was a deputy director at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility, according to the website of the university he graduated from a decade ago, Sharif University.

He was specialised in making polymeric membranes to separate gas. Iran uses a gas separation method to enrich its uranium.

Iran's atomic energy organisation issued a statement, quoted by the country's Arabic broadcaster Al-Alam, confirming Ahmadi Rosham "was working in the nuclear industry."

It said "the futile actions by the criminal Israeli regime and America will not disrupt the path the Iranian people have chosen" and nuclear activities will continue.

"This terrorist act was carried out by agents of the Zionist regime (Israel) and by those who claim to be combatting terrorism (the United States) with the aim of stopping our scientists from serving" Iran, Rahimi told state television.

The vice president, in charge while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wraps up a Latin America tour, added: "They (Israel and the United States) should know that Iranian scientists are more determined than ever in striding towards Iran's progress."

There was no immediate Israeli reaction to the accusations.

Israeli media, though, gave prominent play to the car bombing.

They also relayed comments by Israel's military chief of staff, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, to MPs on Tuesday saying that 2012 was to be "a critical year" given Iran's nuclear drive, international pressure - "and things which happen to them (the Iranians) in an unnatural way."

Three other Iranian scientists were killed in 2010 and 2011 when their cars blew up in similar circumstances. At least two of the scientists had also been working on nuclear activities.

One of the attacks occurred two years earlier, on January 12, 2010, killing scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi.

The current head of Iran's atomic energy organisation, Fereydoun Abbasi, escaped another such attempt in November 2010, getting out of his car with his wife just before the attached bomb exploded.

Those attacks were viewed by Iranian officials as assassination operations carried out by Israel's Mossad intelligence service, possibly with help from US counterparts.

Wednesday's killing sharpened an international confrontation over Iran's nuclear programme in which threats and counter-threats are being increasingly backed with militarised displays of muscle.

Western nations, the United States at the fore, are steadily ratcheting up sanctions on Iran with the aim of fracturing its oil-dependent economy.

Iran has responded by saying it could easily close the Strait of Hormuz - a chokepoint for 20 per cent of the world's oil at the entrance to the Gulf - if it is attacked or if sanctions halt its petroleum exports.

It has also threatened to unleash the "full force" of its navy should the United States redeploy an aircraft carrier to the Gulf, where the US Fifth Fleet is based.

The United States said in return that it would keep sending its warships to the region, warning that closing the strait would be a "red line" that Iran should not cross.

US ally Britain has dispatched its most modern destroyer, HMS Daring, to the Gulf to join other British ships there.

Iran, meanwhile, says it is about to hold more navy manoeuvres in the strait, following ones nearby that ended less than two weeks ago in which, pointedly, three anti-ship missiles were test-fired.

US-Iranian tensions have also worsened following an Iranian court's death sentence this week on an American-Iranian former Marine it found guilty of spying for the CIA, and Iran's capture last month of what it said was a CIA drone.

Tehran's determination to push ahead with its nuclear activities despite the pressure were underlined by the International Atomic Energy Agency's confirmation on Monday that Iran has started enriching uranium at a second facility - its Fordo fortified underground bunker southwest of the capital.

The IAEA two months ago issued a report strongly suggesting that Western fears of Iranian research into nuclear weapons was backed by a lot of evidence.

Iran, though, insists that its atomic programme is exclusively for energy and medical ends, and it has declared itself open to resuming nuclear negotiations with world powers that collapsed a year ago.

 

[steffychun]

So much for Human Rights

 

[Whats4]

So much for Human Rights

human rights are crap stuff that meant to makes one looks gd but is meant to be thrown out of the window. it only restrict yourself when it come to politics and having to use underhand means to deal with your opponents. same case as geneva conventions. it practically asking a soldiers to fight with one hand tie behind their back.