Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran - report

[Peter1469]

Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran - report

An Iranian military officer and head of Iran's nuclear weapons project is now taking a dirt nap. Israel? US?

Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in Damavand, east of Tehran, local Iranian news reported on Friday.


Fakhrizadeh was a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer and headed Iran’s nuclear weapons project. He was a professor of physics at the Imam Hussein University in Tehran and was former head of Iran's Physics Research Center (PHRC).

Iran's revolutionary guards commander wrote on Twitter that Iran will avenge the killing of scientists as it has in the past.


The Iranian Fars News Agency reported that Fakhrizadeh was only injured in an attack and that he was being treated in a hospital in Tehran.


The Iran Atomic Energy organization denied the reports, saying that no incident involving nuclear scientists took place, ISNA News Agency reported.

[montana]

Hopefully more will join him.

[MMC]

Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran - report

An Iranian military officer and head of Iran's nuclear weapons project is now taking a dirt nap. Israel? US?

More than likely. Seems Israel can fly all over Iran, operate in Iran and the Iranians dont even have a clue that they were there until after the fact. Yes.....they are dumber than Democrats and leftists.

[Peter1469]

Former CIA Director Brennan's bizarre tweet condemning killing of Iranian scientist sparks criticism

Brennan makes some stupid comments over the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist.

After an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in an apparent ambush near Tehran on Friday, former CIA Director John Brennan said that it was a "criminal act & highly reckless." He said it "risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict." Brennan said that Iranian leaders should wait until Biden is in office, and not engage with the Trump administration:


"Iranian leaders would be wise to wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage & to resist the urge to respond against perceived culprits."

[MMC]

Former CIA Director Brennan's bizarre tweet condemning killing of Iranian scientist sparks criticism

Brennan makes some stupid comments over the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist.

The Eyeatoldyaso sys he will seek revenge.

[Peter1469]

Why Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed now

Yesterday afternoon someone assassinated yet another scientist working on Iran’s nuclear programme. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh headed up the ministry of defence's research and innovation organisation, and he was ambushed and killed in his car just east of Tehran, by gunmen who opened fire on him and his bodyguards.

I’ve been writing about Iranian nuclear scientists getting whacked for almost a decade now, with my book on Iran’s nuclear programme published in an updated edition this month. It appears that another cycle of nuclear violence is starting once again – and Fakhrizadeh is the most important hit yet. He genuinely was at the heart of the Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Indeed, in 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu singled him out in a public presentation on Iran's nuclear programme. ‘Remember that name,’ he told his audience. An injunction someone clearly took to heart. The Americans, too, had Fakhrizadeh’s number. In 2015 the New York Times described him as the ‘closest thing Iran has to J. Robert Oppenheimer, who guided the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first nuclear weapon.’


The Iranians are reacting accordingly to his death. ‘Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today,’ tweeted Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. ‘This cowardice—with serious indications of Israeli role – shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators Iran calls on int'l community – and especially EU – to end their shameful double standards & condemn this act of state terror.’


That the Israelis popped him is a given. They’ve been doing this for a decade and the MO is always pretty much the same. And besides, no one else does targeted assassinations quite like this in the region. Of course, it’s not Mossad agents on the ground. For the actual wet work Israel tends to use the Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, or the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, a cult-like organisation that fought with Saddam during the Iran-Iraq War.


Iranian state media has picked up the baton and is now also in overdrive. Everywhere you look there are pieces blaming Israel, with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowing to ‘punish’ the ‘masterminds’ of the hit, and reports of President Rouhani promising imminent retaliation. More than this, Fakhrizadeh’s face now adorns the many martyrdom images and memes now flooding Iranian online spaces.

This in itself is significant. The Iranians have, in the past, chosen to play down the importance (and therefore the success) of these killings. Here they’re doing the opposite – and it’s a very tricky situation for them. Iran’s nuclear programme is only as good as the strength of its human capital. That capital is good, but it is also, as we have just been reminded, fragile.

[Captdon]

The Iranians claim to have found a made in Israel rifle.

[Peter1469]

The Iranians claim to have found a made in Israel rifle.

Probably planted. I would expect Mossad would not use Israeli equipment.

[MMC]

Iran changes its story on killing of top nuclear scientist.....

Accounts of the killing of a top Iranian nuclear scientist have devolved into finger-pointing and shifting narratives.


No one behind the attack has been arrested, and now, officials have begun to spin a new story about what happened on Friday in an apparent attempt to shift the blame from Iran’s massive intelligence failure that allowed the operation to be successful and the supposed gunmen to escape......snip~


Iran changes its story on killing of top nuclear scientist (washingtonexaminer.com)



Cmon Man.....you knew they would now.

[Peter1469]

Some of those involved in killing of Iranian nuclear scientist arrested, official says

I expect them to get a fast trial and execution.

Some of those involved in the assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist last month have been arrested, an adviser to the Iranian parliament speaker said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official news agency ISNA.

Iran has blamed Israel for the Nov. 27 killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was seen by Western intelligence services as the mastermind of a covert Iranian nuclear weapons programme. Tehran has long denied any such ambition. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the killing.


"The perpetrators of this assassination, some of whom have been identified and even arrested by the security services, will not escape justice," ISNA quoted adviser Hossein Amir-Abdollahian as telling Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam TV.


"Were the Zionists (Israel) able to do this alone and without the cooperation of, for example, the American (intelligence) service or another service? They certainly could not do that," Amir-Abdollahian said.