Iran nuclear scientist killed by car bomb in Tehran
Killers planted bombs on two victims' cars, killing one and wounding another, local press reports.
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies Tags: Israel news IranAn Iranian nuclear scientists was killed and another wounded in separate but identical bomb attacks in Tehran on Monday, according to local press reports.
The Fars television service said bombs were attached to both victims' cars by assassins on motorcycles, accused agents of the United States and Israel of being behind the killings.
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Security officials stand near a damaged car following the detonation of a planted bomb in this still image taken from video in Tehran November 29, 2010 |
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Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najar also accused the US and Israeli intelligence
services of carrying out the assassinations.
"The CIA and Mossad have always been the enemies of Iran and constantly tried to sabotage our technological progress," he told state television.
But the minister did not present any evidence to back up the accusations.
State broadcaster ISNA further named the two victims as Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi, both professors at Tehran's Shahid Beheshti university.
Shahriari was killed, while Abbasi and his wife were injured and hospitalized, ISNA said.
Iran's atomic chief, Ali-Akbar Salehi, told the IRNA news agency that Shahriari was a nuclear scientist and a student of his.
"I promise that we will deliver more Shahriaris to the Iranian nation, and such plots will just accelerate the speed of Iran's nuclear programmes," Salehi told Abbasi.
A pro-government website, mashreghnews.ir, said Abbasi held a PhD in nuclear physics and was a laser expert at Iran's Defense Ministry and one of few top Iranian specialists in nuclear isotope separation.
The site said Abbasi has long been a member of the Revolutionary Guard, the country's most powerful military force. It said he was also a lecturer at Imam Hossein University, affiliated to the Guard.
In January, another Iranian nuclear scientist, Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was also killed.
State media said at the time that Ali-Mohammadi was killed by a remote controlled bomb strapped to a motorcycle.
Then too, Iran accused Israel and the West of the attack on a "committed and revolutionary" scientist.
But an opposition website, Jaras, said Ali Mohhamadi was an opposition supporter who backed moderate candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in a disputed election, which plunged Iran into turmoil in mid-2009.
In February 2009, the Daily Telegraph, a British, newspaper, reported that Israel was assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of a covert war against the Islamic Republic's illicit weapons program.
The Telegraph quoted Western intelligence analysts as saying that Israel's Mossad spy agency was behind the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran's Isfahan uranium plant who died mysteriously from"gas poisoning" in 2007.
Israel and the West accuse Iran of developing nuclear weapons, a charge the Iranians deny.
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Does killing of 6 US soldiers in Afghanistan by a policeman has any connection to Tehran assasination? Well, it happend a few hours later!
your all pathetic, it is clearly evident that israel wants to be the only nuke power, iran knows very well if it used a nuke on anyone first then the world would obliterate it, if true they are making a bomb, it would be no where near what israel has, it would be a retaliatory measure only, so stop lying about iran being a threat.
Fereydoun Abbasi was an early revolutionary, a member of the Revolutionary Guards and has been associated with various defense projects for decades. A check shows little published by him, strange for a professor and a strong indication he has been working on classified projects. Majid Shahriari was an advisor the multi-national SESAME project. Israel's advisors to that joint project are Professor Moshe Paz-Pasternak and rofessor Eliezer Rabinovici. He also has left a quite conventional record of publications. "Discrete formulation for two-dimensional multigroup neutron diffusion equations", of great use to those designing nuclear reactors, "Design of a Nuclear Level Switch using MCNP code, and comparison with experimental results," essentially for industrial applications. Most of his recent work involved medical applications. Unlike Abbasi, Shahriari seems an unlikely prospect for a significant clandestine career.
When you disagree with a country start killing it's scientists. Let me guess. Next we criticize Iran for being terrorists? I'll bet they are confused by now.
I can say only, God Help Iran and Iranian people.
I see no sign of the required 30 dead Englishmen traveling on forged Belgian passports, so it couldn't be Mossad.
..and then when we finally figure it out we can forget about it. The evidence was doctored! The reason why there is still no effective mechanism for international justice is because that's the way the countries in power want it. As individual citizens, we must insist on getting this. Our corrupt governments won't change unless they are forced or relentlessly shamed. Events such as this one are par for the course.
Nuclear scientist killed in Tehran was Iran's top Stuxnet expert. Prof. Majid Shahriari, who died when his car was attacked in North Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, headed the team Iran established for combating the Stuxnet virus rampaging through its nuclear and military networks. His wife was injured. The scientist's death deals a major blow to Iran's herculean efforts to purge its nuclear and military control systems of the destructive worm since it went on the offensive six months ago. Only this month, Stuxnet shut down nuclear enrichment at Natanz for six days from Nov. 16-22 and curtailed an important air defense exercise. Prof. Shahriari was the Iranian nuclear program's top expert on computer codes and cyber war. Iran is in panicking greatly .
After all, Israel has limited access to Iran, and I know that at least there are 50000 persons which after two years training can replace this guy! This way , even did not work completely for Hezbollah and Hamas completely, it is foolish to think that it can stop the nuclear program of a sovereign state with 70 million population. University of SHahid Beheshti is only 7th university of Iran .! My main concern is that this kind of attacks bring the Iran-Israel conflict into a new stage of open confrontation and bilateral damage would increase dramatically! Wait and see how Iran respond!
Who'd have thought a tiny little thing like a microchip might serve to expose Israel's dirty secrets when Israel depends on censorship? Now, with fingers being pointed at Israel for the assassinations in Tehran, it's looking like a double whammy for the US's "best friend in the Middle East."
There should be an international tribunal in the same way as established for Lebanon. The Western world uses any credibility by allowing Israel to assassinate in Dubai without any response and setting up special UN tribunals for other cases. Western nations should now start verhemently condemning this act, setting up an independent international investigation and establishing a tribunal.
Yes, it has, and it revealed that North Korea, China and Russia have been supplying Iran with nuclear technology and missiles.
Israel once again proves it's a gangster state living by the sword. How is its behavior different to that of Vladimir Putin's Russia?
He also planned to use the centrifuges for milk skimming and some generic work - creating chimeric pig - monkey nuclear scientists. Of course, we tried to save him, but to no avail. We wish him happy serial copulationsx72
Bravo and kudos to your sense of humor. Blessed bne thy name.
After finishing all middle eastern you can go and killing your western supporter! I see that probably I have been wrong that I have opposed mullas all these years!
You said all in a very intersting way. It seems like that.
Had there been such a state like Israel in 1935 - 1939, I think Millions of lives could have been saved.
Or what.ASnd if they are accusing Israel then does it come as a surprise? They seem to run out of accusations I think.Time for them to wake up ,and find another plonker to accuse.Of curse I agree with you a 100 %.
Time is rapidly running out for Ahmadinejad and his cronies in the Shiite madhouse with these assassinations of prominent nuclear scientist only more proof of Tehran,s nuclear toy factory with more crushing sanctions to come,inshallah .
Yes...so true...so very true!
this is stateterrorism!
You are an idiot! Would you rather Israel declare "war" and kill thousands of people in an attempt to neutralize Iran's nuclear aspirations? Targeted assasinations are not "terrorism". They only spread "terror" to the targeted individuals...not the general public If Israel did this, then they should be praised for their restraint!.
expect more of what Iran pays for daily, terror, 'ye reap what ye sow.'
israel must pay for this crime, just like ship to gaza
I thought they were from independent terrorist cells - yet Hamas is held guilty. The level of evidence is similar - nil or to the opposite. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Hamas controls Gaza,therefore they should be able to find and neutralize these "independent terrorist cells" if they wanted to.Not doing so makes them equally guilty. And it's so funny that you consider holding Hamas guilty without evidence as wrong,but holding Israel guilty without evidence as OK.....
And would not come as a surprise that the killings are getting more frequent by the day.They need to go on more robust marches to oust the present fundementalistic dictators once and for all.They tried it once,they cad do so again.
Very careless to walk around freely if they are opposition supporters. Iran killing its own scientists just because they supported Mousavi
And anyone saying it is an inside job is either a retard or playing stupid or both
Many, many, unhappy Iranians. The regime has many, many, enemies.
shows you fulfill your own declaration...one needs evidence either way.
The conflict between West and Muslims (Arabs are so in majority) is about global domination. For the last two centuries, the West got on top and is clearly in complete control since the Othman Khilafah was liquidated. As a consequence Turkey has become a western follower, Arab and Muslimlands were divided and a direc or indirect colonial rule established. Today most arab and muslim lands are ruthlessly ruled by dictatorships sponsored by western powers. An essential part of continued western domination is to prohibit real progress in these communities and that means to liquidate scientists if needed. Prominent scientists of all origins were so killed wherever they can be reached. It is not important who would the killings or if they have links to such or such. The benefit and the main goal is to keep muslims and arabs under domination for as much as possible. Iran is certainly targeted (it was Iraqis and Egyptians in the past) from different sources, internal (pushed by external bosses) or external. CIA, Mossad, Arab Espionages, Iranian dissidents, etc. are the suspects and the benificaries. It is a fight without mercy because of the huge stakes involved. Iran is under huge pressures from many sides as the last wikileaks testify.
The conflict between West and Muslims (Arabs are so in majority) is about global domination. For the last two centuries, the West got on top and is clearly in complete control since the Othman Khilafah was liquidated. As a consequence Turkey has become a western follower, Arab and Muslimlands were divided and a direc or indirect colonial rule established. Today most arab and muslim lands are ruthlessly ruled by dictatorships sponsored by western powers. An essential part of continued western domination is to prohibit real progress in these communities and that means to liquidate scientists if needed. Prominent scientists of all origins were so killed wherever they can be reached. It is not important who would the killings or if they have links to such or such. The benefit and the main goal is to keep muslims and arabs under domination for as much as possible. Iran is certainly targeted (it was Iraqis and Egyptians in the past) from different sources, internal (pushed by external bosses) or external. CIA, Mossad, Arab Espionages, Iranian dissidents, etc. are the suspects and the benificaries. It is a fight without mercy because of the huge stakes involved. Iran is under huge pressures from many sides as the last wikileaks testify.
Very sad for this human being and its family. But only for them.... Maybe, it will contribute to save some thousand of other life.
Iran "might" potentially make a nuclear bomb, and they "might" someday in the future use it. So therefore, Israel is going to nuke Iran and kill millions of people because of a "potential" threat to its "existence" in the "future".
The premises of the Israeli and USA’s argument are indeed purely speculative the conclusions drawn from them are of equal worth, but we are not engaged with logic here but a rational based on fear and loathing. However there is one thing we can be sure of, sooner or later in this ever changing universe the featherweight of one more death, one more threat, will actualise that self fulfilling prophesy so beloved by the imbecilic warmongers amongst our species. And then, in preparation for yet another round of carnage the ‘I told you so’s’ will jump with joy and this macabre dance will continue.
The Iranian bomb program is apparent to all except those who chose to bury their heads for ideological reasons. It's beyond speculation at this point and will result in a massive regional nuclear arms race. Israel never threatened to nuke anyone. It's threats are to bomb the secret factories to prevent a future catastrophe. Who believes North Korea would be shelling the south with impugnity if it hadn't first gotten the bomb? The Iranian bomb is not about establishing "parity" or a balance of power. It's about spreading their messianic expansionist dream under cover of nukes. Wikileaks shows Iran's program is freaking everyone out, not just Israel.
State terror and neverending wars are signs of a failing state. Israel's bullying days are almost over. Killing Iranian scientists and launching computer viruses will only make the Iranian regime militarize its nuclear program faster.
Of course, the evidence against Israel is completely non-existent. Notice how quickly the little man of Tehran blames Israel though - what is he hiding, do you think?
The scientist did't work fast enough for mullah dictators and so: head off. It's a quite normaly behaviour in those circles.
It's not only Iran that have scientists,y'know?Just saying.You' ve killed two,now there're a thousand more to go.
carrying out stateterrorism against Iran.
How can you be so sure Israel is behind this killing? Don't you think a lot of Iranians are fed up with their leaders? As for Israel being a threat to world peace, where do u get that from? What about the 2 Koreas and all other countries who have conflicts?
100's of what? If you are meaning human beings then do the rest of our species a favour and volunteer yourself you evil bastard.
don't worry you killed two people today but they will destroy whole israel
Clouds seen on the sky you can guess its rain..
It is a very foolish game, targeting civilians and scientists! Just wait for its repels in Tel Aviv!Only a stupid can start the game Israel has started.I know that revolutionary gauards has never forgotten us, when we killed its members! and do not forget we were Iranians. It continued until executing enough from us!
and "disposed" of. A perfect set up to blame an outside enemy. Then there are many pesecuted groups in Iran,who would welcome a shot at Irans nuclear ambitions. They have been murdered by the hundreds of thousands,payback time,by one of the organised resistence groups. Awaiting your factual evidence.
In this way you can understand who has done it!
On dissident oppressed groups in Iran, of which there are plenty.
Are you insane? These people are helping to create nukes for mass murder.
And they were even in protection for educational activities such as research camps and so on! I hope you are right,and I am wrong! It is much better that they have been killed by Mullas than ISrael! because if it is by Israel it means that we would have soon horrible events from both sides!
Are they politician and responsible for every thing? their fault is only that they are born in that country! they are not decider. Scientists are the same poor all around the world!
What an assinine comment Peter, and do you seriously ask that we consider the possibility that any regime and I do mean any, would wantonly engage in the assasination of its own nuclear scientists? Such people do not as it were grow on trees
What an assinine comment Peter, and do you seriously ask that we consider the possibility that any regime and I do mean any, would wantonly engage in the assasination of its own nuclear scientists? Such people do not as it were grow on trees
for this crime!
My belief was that Iranians were cultured, deep thinking and objective thinkers. Your posts here prove that you can't believe anything anyone tells you.
Just because intellectuals cannot bring themselves to condemn anything non Western Governments do,no matter how many millions they kill
Even US nukes iraqis in Falluja !I see they are all criminal, but you see only the other criminal. I think you are superficial, and you cannot see the pain of others!You just say anything that Israel does not like should be vanished! Fortunately the world is more rational than this! ISrael naturally cannot play such games for a long time !with Iran or without Iran!
Much better will be if they were just alive. Killing people is the worth thing you can do. "Good terrorist" Israel and "bad terrorist" Iran? There is no difference, it is murder.. Don´t support terrorism wherever it comes from. No double standards.
What else can Israel do? They must stop Iran's march toward a nuclear weapon and the only other alternative is an air attack on Iran's nuclear centers and its electrical grid. GO ISRAEL!! Mark Montgomery NYC, NY boboberg@nyc.rr.com
You have to "cut off the head of the snake".
many more will be revealed soon by anarchists Wikileaks.
Why would Israel or the US assassinate Scientists only this late in the game? it doesn't make sense and it doesn't create setbacks for Iran obviously. The Only reason this nuclear program survives is by maintaining ambiguity, the moment there is conclusive evidance that it is used to manufacture unconventional weapons its all over and Iran knows this. My guess is that the good professor stumbled upon plans to use the nuclear facility to make nukes and Iran had to make him go away before he turns whisleblower.
riddance
of dead jews
You must be confused as usual! Only muslim terrorists and their supporters.Would dream of saying such a disgusting thing!
Che Guevara.
per usual, your post is all a muddle. did anyone say s/he worships the dead iranian? where is this vaunted jewish intelligence? my point, for those too blinded to see it, is that saying "good riddance" to the death of a human being is a game anyone can play, and most often played by the brutish likes of Vlad and Absolut Sweden (that is, when he's not gazing longingly at the book from which is took his Haaretz moniker. google it)
Sometimes when something is right under your nose,you tent to overlook it & instead, you look for it far from its cradle, All signs show that it's an inside job,well orchestrated precisely when the slain son of Papa Harari by Hezbollah,Syria & the Mullahs were all involved to certain degrees