Sunday Times: Mossad agents behind Iran scientist assassination
Report reveals the step-by-step procedure behind the killing of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan as he was on his way to the Natanz uranium enrichment.
By Haaretz Tags: Iran Iran nuclear Mossad Iran threatA Sunday Times report revealed Monday that Mossad agents were behind last week’s assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
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Funeral of of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, who was killed in a brazen daylight assassination. |
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According to the report, the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was similar to that seen in “espionage films” - planned over a period of many months, and including extensive surveillance and intelligence gathering. The Sunday Times quoted an unnamed Israeli sources who claimed that the killing was a precursor to a military strike, which would make rebuilding nuclear facilities more difficult for Iran, should they be bombed.
The report further claimed that small groups of Israeli Mossad agents had carefully observed key areas in Tehran deemed relevant to the Roshan’ assassination.
"There is zero tolerance for mistakes. By nature, every failure not only risks the neck of the agents but also risks turning into an international scandal,” said the Israeli source.
According to the Sunday Times, Roshan, 32, was monitored from a makeshift control room in a safe house nearby as he was preparing to leave for work. Israeli agents were also watching the entrance to Iranian intelligence headquarters in the city center, when they noticed a number of cars and people running, followed by police rushing into the nearby streets. Another agent monitoring radio traffic between the Tehran police and security forces confirmed unusual activity, said the paper.
The report states that as Roshan’s bodyguard was driving him to Natanz uranium enrichment site, where he served as director, a masked person on a motorbike weaved through traffic, planting a bomb on the car shaped to deliver its full force at the passenger.
The Sunday Times report stated that hundreds of regime supporters swore revenge at Roshan’s funeral on Friday. "Two targets were always in Mustafa's mind," Reza Najafi, a friend, said. "To fight Israel and to become a shaheed (martyr). He achieved both his targets."
The United States ruled out any connection with the assassination. "We were not involved in any way with regards to the assassination that took place there," said Secretarty of Defense Leon Panetta, although he did hint that he had "some idea" of who was.
According to the report, the British Foreign Office also said Britain had "no involvement whatsoever" in the attack.
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Not only was the Mossad involved but no doubt that the CIA and the British Inteligence were also involved in the assasination and all government leaders of these countries knew about the whole plot.
this how things are going to turn. Iran will try to take revenge and israel will try to retaliate and there we go.
sunday times is out to remove the british government from any responsibility or any involvement in the matter, but teheran knows better.
Has anyone read The Prague Cemetery? Nothing has changed. There are scurrilous artcles siteing "unnamed sources". Then there are more fantastic artilcles quoting other unsubstantiated articles. Finally there are the editorial that draw conclusions and moral lessons based on the previous unsubstantiated artlcles.
Why are Israelis so impressed by the British press? Which is currently in the midst of a inquiry into their illegal practices of phone hacking and intimidation. Not to mention out right falsification of headlines and articles. Don't be too impressed by the British press. It isn"t very reliable anymore and has never been objective.
Al Qaeda is not a member of the UN and does not masquerade as a democracy.
Israel actually does the stuff that Iran is only accused of.
The article was written as if the journalist Marie Colvin was part of the hit team.I Dont think Ms Colvin is either part of Mossad.Nor has access to sources within Mossad which tell her intricate details about very sensitive operations.Why would any intelligence organisation need to? Details such as anxious radio messages between the head of the team from a safe house to the motorcyclists expressing concern over a lot of activity at the Iranian security building nearby which could have resulted in the mission being called off make exciting reading , but you have to be rather gullible to really believe that Mossad is telling the Sunday Times 'all about it' days afterwards. I think a lot of these sort of artices particularly those written days after the event are pure fiction.I remember a few years ago the Sunday Times had a major feature setting out in detail that the Israelis were about to launch an attack on the Iranian nuclear establishments using 'suicide mission' dogs which would be 'detonated' to explode and destroy the facilities. Who on earth dreamt up that story? There is a lot of space to fill in a newspaper....
actually you know people loves yellow pages. today as pretended education rises, you must offer kind of better news to be consumed. In this point im a little confused. is this better than average?
retalliate in kind is the best reaction
dont forget to hide behind babys --children is "de mode"