IRAN: NUCLEAR SCIENTIST DIES UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

adnkronos international ^ | Jan. 25, 2007

[nuconvert]

IRAN: NUCLEAR SCIENTIST DIES UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

Tehran, 25 Jan. (AKI) - One of Iran's top nuclear scientists, Ardeshir Hassanpour, a professor at the university of Shiraz, has died under mysterious circumstances. Hassanpour's death was announced by Iranian state television, a week late, on Thursday. No reason was given for his death. The scientist was proclaimed the best scientist in the military field in the Islamic Republic in 2003. Hassanpour directed the centre for nuclear electromagnetic studies he had founded in 2005.

He had also co-founded the center for atomic research in Isfahan, the most important in the country, Iranian state television reported.

Last year, Ardeshir Hassanpour was awarded Iran's most prestigious scientific award, the Kharazmi prize.

[nuconvert]

pong

[TAP ONLINE]

There wasa button on my desk tthat said do not push. I pushed it. Sorry

[zarf]

That's a good education down the tubes.

[Publius6961]

What a shame.
I'm truly ripped up!

Gonna go do something really significant, now. Sort my socks.

[misterrob]

Radiation poisoning?

[Publius6961]

I was hoping lead poisoning.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Lemme guess. He knew too much and was gonna spill the beans about their NUKES program to the world?!

[martin_fierro]

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Time to update the Body Count?

[unkus]

Might have been some kind of Kosher poison.

[NobleEagle2004]

Assassination?
Caught given up Secrets?

[conservativepoet]

Interesting...

[FreedomNeocon]

Great work guys!

[Bogey78O]

Ok, he was almost certainly killed. Who killed him will tell you the why. If we did it it's to keep their program retarded. If they did it it's to keep their programs secret.

Let's hope we killed him FWIW.

[FreePaul]

No reason was given for his death.

OK. His heart stopped. Mystery solved.

[Fiddlstix]

A few too many "rads" will do that..........

[Tzimisce]

There's nothing mysterious about people disappearing in a tyrannical dictatorship...

[NRA2BFree]

i>Ardeshir Hassanpour, a professor at the university of Shiraz, has died under mysterious circumstances

Those darn nuclear leaks will do it every time.

[Just sayin]

He was told to manufacture a bomb and refused maybe? This is an interesting development.

[westmichman]

Jack Bauer?

[TADSLOS]

Jack Bauer.

[Jack Hammer]

"No reason was given for his death."

Very possibly a case of Mossad-itis.

[unkus]

They gave him an offer that he refused.

[dr_who_2]

Hope a few more go out the same way.

[cripplecreek]

He fell on a bullet or tripped over a noose

[unkus]

Kosher-itis.

[FreedomNeocon]

If I had to 'guess' what this was all about I'd say:

The 'embassy' we raided 2 weeks ago, the one the state dept has said found details of direct Iranian involvement in Iraq.

It had a few other 'nuggets' that we didn't expect (or at least couldn't count on) and this was a loose end that needed to be cut.

In either case, they didn't want to do this, backed into it, pragmatic course of action and all that (remember Saddam killing off terrorists he harbored for years in the weeks prior to us going in).

Win/Win IMO...

[null and void]

Mousad?

[Cinnamon]

did he take the red pill(polonium)?

[CrazyIvan]

Didn't know the Clintons, did he?

[popdonnelly]

Wet ops?

[FreedomNeocon]

That is... you could say this is a result of Bush's "surge" plan that the democrats, hagel, voinovish, warner and all are backing.

[PrkChps]

Did the Israelis whack him or did our guys whack him?
Discuss.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

a professor at the university of Shiraz, has died under mysterious circumstances. Hassanpour's death was announced by Iranian state television, a week late, on Thursday. No reason was given for his death.

uh, how was it mysterious if they dont know how he died?

[rottndog]

Very possibly a case of Mossad-itis.

Hopefully more than a few Iranian scientists will catch that malady...

[popdonnelly]

As someone who's been accused of being a member of the Mossad, I want you to at least spell it correctly.

[rottndog]

Could have been a combination of the two.

[null and void]

50 seconds late...

[Cinnamon]

maybe a Mossad hit. we'll never know and I ran will never admit to it.

[Just sayin]

Maybe it is just a simple case of a demonstrated reason why even the Europeans have been telling them that it is best to have oversight by nations that have been at this for a while.

[Pharmboy]

They're gonna blame...guess who...again...THE JOOS!!

[cripplecreek]

It's quite possible that the Iranians no longer found him usefull.

[popdonnelly]

"a professor at the university of Shiraz"

I could go with a good Shiraz right now!

[nuconvert]

cuz they waited a week to report it?

[null and void]

Sorry, I wanted to be first and didn't spell check.

[lonevoice]

Jack Bauer.

My first thought

[California Patriot]

If this happened, it's clearly news -- either good or bad.

[WalterSkinner]

..yes I agree--Mossad

A lot easier to deal with the aftermath than leveling Tehran with a Jericho...

[popdonnelly]

Well, I feel sorry for the guy. He was in a bad line of work. Here's hoping his in a better place.