Posted on 10/09/2009 1:42:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Tehran accuses US in case of missing Iranian nuclear scientist
DEBKA file Special Report
October 8, 2009, 6:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki charged Wednesday, Oct. 7 that Tehran had "documents that prove US interference" in the disappearance of the nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri during a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia earlier this year. He spoke after attending an Iranian cabinet meeting. Six days after meeting the six powers on its nuclear program in Geneva, Tehran appears to be preparing a new crisis.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly denied having any information "on this individual." Some Saudi sources claimed the scientist asked the kingdom for political asylum but this was denied by Riyadh.
DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that Shahram Amiri was a senior member of Tehran University's nuclear physics department which is directly involved in work on Iran's second enrichment facility near Qom. Iranian nuclear scientists are forbidden foreign travel except for pilgrimages to Mecca. Then too they travel with groups and watched over by Iranian security personnel. Their passports are held by the group's head, usually a Revolutionary Guards officer, as a safety guard against defections.
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I would like to think that we were involved, but i’m sure that isn’t the case with obammy in charge. Probably Israel.
We could hope that we did capture this dissident.
Stupid move by Iran. Very bold. This is close to admitting of the nuclear bomb program.
Way above his pay grade.
We should kill every single identifiable Iranian nuclear scientist at every possible opportunity. The Saudis fear the Iranians about as much as the Israelis do. They have tried to make Mecca available to all Muslems and not allow it to become a point of contention with other Islamic states. Whether they would make an expection in the case of Iranian nuclear scientist is an open question.
All your Iranian scientist belong to us!
lol
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