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Who's killing Iranian nuclear scientists?
CNN ^ | January 12, 2012 | Josh Levs

Posted on 01/12/2012 2:51:35 PM PST by Zakeet

An explosion on Wednesday killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a top official at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, Iranian officials said.

He is the third man identified as a nuclear scientist to be killed in Iran in a mysterious explosion in the past two years. A fourth survived an assassination attempt.

In each case, someone placed a bomb under the scientist's car.

Iranian officials, on state-run media, blame Israel and the United States.

"I want to categorically deny any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday.

"We believe there has to be an understanding between Iran, its neighbors and the international community that finds a way forward for it to end its provocative behavior, end its search for nuclear weapons and rejoin the international community and be a productive member of it," she said.

While Israel generally refuses to comment on accusations and speculation , Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said on his Facebook page Wednesday, "I have no idea who targeted the Iranian scientist but I certainly don't shed a tear."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahmadiroshan; assassination; iran; mossad; nuclear; nucleariran; workaccident
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Trita Parsi [president of the National Iranian-American Council] told CNN he does not believe the killings are the work of the United States ... Michael Rubin [resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute] agreed, and gave a different reason. "Frankly, I don't think the United States has the human intelligence!"

1 posted on 01/12/2012 2:51:45 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Who cares?


2 posted on 01/12/2012 2:53:23 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Zakeet

We know it isn’t hussein-—He’d be more likely to give millions of taxpayer dollars to halt the killing of iran scientists in an effort to have them use a nuke on the US.


3 posted on 01/12/2012 2:54:38 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Zakeet

The man from UNCLE you CNN morons, how much are you getting paid by Iran to try and get intel?

Its a good thing its happening, its like if it rained silver dollars, who cares?


4 posted on 01/12/2012 2:54:50 PM PST by Eye of Unk (NO Romney,NO way)
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To: Zakeet

Maybe Zeba or Mossad?


5 posted on 01/12/2012 2:55:06 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: Zakeet

Well, it could be the Iranian anti-Mullah people who know the Israelis would get blamed (yeah, yeah, I know...far-fetched).


6 posted on 01/12/2012 2:56:17 PM PST by Pharmboy (She turned me into a Newt! 2012)
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To: Zakeet

I have an alibi.


7 posted on 01/12/2012 2:56:20 PM PST by GSWarrior (Businessmen are more trustworthy than politicians, professors and preachers.)
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To: Zakeet
""I want to categorically deny any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said "

H! is just annoyed that she can not pee on vanquished enemies without squatting.

8 posted on 01/12/2012 2:56:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Zakeet
Who's killing Iranian nuclear scientists and where can we donate?
9 posted on 01/12/2012 2:57:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (This administration is Barawkward... yes lets try everything that failed in the 20th Century. NOT!)
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To: NEMDF

Amish?


10 posted on 01/12/2012 2:57:28 PM PST by Pharmboy (She turned me into a Newt! 2012)
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To: Zakeet

Although Israel is an obvious choice, Russia is also another possibility. They tend to do a lot of, ‘say one thing and do another’, this kind of stuff.


11 posted on 01/12/2012 2:57:35 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: GSWarrior

It isn’t Obama, but you can be damned well sure, next October he will be taking credit for it.


12 posted on 01/12/2012 2:58:28 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Most Conservative in the Primary, the Republican Nominee in the General.)
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To: Zakeet

The saudis.


13 posted on 01/12/2012 2:59:16 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: Jonty30
Still could be internal.

Zoroastrians still exist.

Someone has to preserve the Persian culture.

14 posted on 01/12/2012 3:00:49 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Zakeet

My guess is it’s IRAN themselves.
This last assassination was done 48 hours AFTER the new nuclear facility was declared operational, so they didn’t need him to be breathing any more. So they could kill him, then use that killing as a pretext for blaming ISRAEL, the US or BRITAIN for the murder........


15 posted on 01/12/2012 3:00:59 PM PST by Red Badger (If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
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To: Zakeet

The same folks who captured eichman

Mossad


16 posted on 01/12/2012 3:01:32 PM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Zakeet

The eee-vil Koch Brothers?


17 posted on 01/12/2012 3:02:06 PM PST by Maceman (Obama: As American as nasei goreng)
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To: Zakeet

Hard core anti-nuke nuts?


18 posted on 01/12/2012 3:02:17 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Paladin2

Oh for sure.


19 posted on 01/12/2012 3:02:40 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Zakeet

This is a good example of asymetrical warfare. They build a nuclear arsenal, the other side rents a couple of motor scooters and wires about $20 worth of explosives to a handful of cars. Somebody is learning their lessons very well.


20 posted on 01/12/2012 3:02:57 PM PST by Sam Clements
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