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Gopher
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 Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:19 pm Post subject: Iranian oppositionist professor assassinated |
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Critics have assailed America and defended Iran re: Tehran's apparent move to develop nuclear weapons.
If the United States can have nuclear weapons, why not Iran?
Because the two governments are different and act differently. On the one hand, when R. Oppenheimer dissented re: the cold war and America's developing thermonuclear weapons, the Eisenhower administration alleged he suffered "a character disorder" and stripped him of his security clearance, thus removing him from the program entirely.
On the other hand, although it seems inconclusive at the moment, it looks like Tehran just assassinated oppositionist nuclear physics Professor Massoud Ali Mohammadi...
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As Middle East intrigue goes, it doesn't get much stranger than this: at approximately 8 a.m. this morning, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a nuclear physics professor at Tehran University, was killed by a bomb outside his home in a quiet northern suburb of Tehran. This may not have seemed that odd if it had taken place in Baghdad or Kabul. But assassinations -- particularly with a remote-control bomb hidden inside a motorcycle -- are not common in Iran.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman quickly pointed fingers outside the country's borders, blaming Israel and the United States for the killing as a means of thwarting the country's nuclear program. Obama administration officials emphatically deny any U.S. involvement in the murder. Fars News, a wire service affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, ran an item alleging that a pro-monarchy group had claimed responsibility. Fars also ran an article claiming the professor was devout and had worked with the Revolutionary Guards until six years ago.
But several opposition Web sites have printed a statement showing Ali Mohammadi's name among 420 Tehran University instructors who had pledged their support for candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi last June. Other accounts on opposition Web sites are more explicit. "[Ali Mohammadi] was Green all the way!" writes one of his former students in the Dalan Sabz blog. The student describes how Ali Mohammadi had encouraged his class to join the post-election protests and allegedly brought in a minibus to take some out to join the crowds... |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Seems rather staged, doesn't it? A government actually responding to a real terrorist attack would spend the first few days making general condemnations and saying that they were looking into who did it and asking for calm but Larijani is already bleating about this being a "new low" for Obama or something and has placed the blame squarely on Israel and the US. Somebody needs to photoshop his head onto the body of Sherlock Holmes. |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 4:29 am Post subject: Re: Iranian oppositionist professor assassinated |
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| But several opposition Web sites have printed a statement showing Ali Mohammadi's name among 420 Tehran University instructors who had pledged their support for candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi last June. Other accounts on opposition Web sites are more explicit. "[Ali Mohammadi] was Green all the way!" writes one of his former students in the Dalan Sabz blog. The student describes how Ali Mohammadi had encouraged his class to join the post-election protests and allegedly brought in a minibus to take some out to join the crowds... |
Pot smokin hippie got what he deserved. |
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deadman
Joined: 27 May 2006
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Seems rather staged, doesn't it? A government actually responding to a real terrorist attack would spend the first few days making general condemnations and saying that they were looking into who did it and asking for calm but Larijani is already bleating about this being a "new low" for Obama or something and has placed the blame squarely on Israel and the US. Somebody needs to photoshop his head onto the body of Sherlock Holmes. |
That's what you'd think, but Osama bin Laden's name came up pretty quickly ofter 911, so the US hasn't led by example on that one.
Ingeniously concealed bombs fit the MO of Israel's more shadowy security forces, although there's a lot of bomb making expertise in the region.
I think if's fair to say that the disruption of the Iranian nuclear weapons program would be a high priority for the Israelis, and anyone with expertise in the area fair game.
I find it hard to believe that all their efforts would not be directed towards activities such as this. They're certainly not sqeamish about eliminating perceived threats. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| I think if's fair to say that the disruption of the Iranian nuclear weapons program would be a high priority for the Israelis, and anyone with expertise in the area fair game. |
The professor was involved in areas like string theory and had nothing to do with their nuclear program, plus he was also a supporter of Mousavi. Killing him doesn't do anything to slow Iran's nuclear program. |
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