Bomb Blast Kills Nuclear Scientist in Iran; Israel Accused

An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Wednesday, and a city official blamed Israel for the attack, similar to attacks on nuclear scientists just over a year ago.

Fars news agency identified the victim as Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, a 32-year-old graduate of an oil industry university. It said he had supervised a department at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility. Iran's atomic energy organization said it would issue a statement shortly.

"The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and the work of the Zionists (Israelis)," Fars quoted Deputy Tehran Governor Safarali Baratloo as saying.

Witnesses told Reuters they had seen two people on the motorbike fix the bomb to the car. As well as the person killed in the car, a pedestrian was also killed. Another person in the car was gravely injured, they said.

Two daylight bomb attacks on the same day in Tehran in November 2010 killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another.

Iran then blamed Israeli, British and U.S. intelligence for the attacks, which it said were aimed at assassinating key people working on Iran's nuclear program.

Iran denies Western suspicions that its nuclear program has military goals, saying it is for purely peaceful purposes.

There was no immediate word from Israeli officials. Israel has always declined comment on previous such bombings in Iran.

On Tuesday, Israel's military chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, was quoted as saying that Iran should expect more "unnatural" events in 2012.

His comments, to a closed-door parliamentary panel in Jerusalem, were widely interpreted as alluding to previous acts of sabotage.

"For Iran, 2012 is a critical year in combining the continuation of its nuclearization, internal changes in the Iranian leadership, continuing and growing pressure from the international community and things which take place in an unnatural manner," Gantz was quoted as saying.

Reader Comments

SAJ · 2012-01-11T08:38:46Z

Yes, the khazar snake's are behind this murder.... I don't think this is merely about taking out "nuclear scientist's" but more to do with killing intellectuals, just like they did in Iraq, and are covertly doing so in Syria.... nothing new really, as it's the exact same modus operandi they've used successfully for centuries, to target the brains of a nation before committing genocide a grand scale.....

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SAJ · 2012-01-11T10:42:21Z

Here's probably how the psycho's, via their own front group, got the list of the names and addresses of these scientist's now on the kill list.

FLASHBACK - You've Made Our Nuke Scientists Human Targets, Says Iran [Link]

The Iranian government has accused the head of the U.N.'s nuclear regulatory agency of turning Iran's nuclear scientists into human targets for the Mossad and the CIA by publishing their names in its new report on Iran's nuclear weapons program.

"The release of the names of the Iranian nuclear scientists by the agency has made them targets for assassination by terrorist groups as well as the Israeli regime and the U.S. intelligence services," said Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh in a letter to Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [...]

SAJ · 2012-01-11T14:45:19Z

Parsi: Assassination to scuttle talks [Link]

"There are also actors that escalate at times time not to strengthen their position at the talks, but to scuttle the talks. The attack on the British embassy in Tehran late last year was partly motivated by the desire of one political faction in Iran to undo the talks. Yesterday’s assassination of another Iranian nuclear scientist was likely conducted by a regional actor who prefers a military confrontation with Iran over a compromise that would permit Iran to retain nuclear enrichment capabilities, even if it doesn’t build a bomb."

israel ‘not shedding tear’ over deadly Iran blast [Link]
"”I don’t know who took revenge on the Iranian scientist, but I am definitely not shedding a tear,” Israeli military spokesman Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai wrote on his official Facebook page."

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instructor67 · 2012-01-11T10:44:04Z

"What

a beautiful world this will be, what a glorious time to be free..."

gdpetti · 2012-01-11T10:55:04Z

The testing continues.

Personally, I would have thought the Persians wouldn't have needed so much more testing of their security in this regards after past events, but it seems some lessons are hard to learn. Perhaps their border security is only as safe as ours back here in the States?

nor · 2012-01-11T11:59:12Z

Who

are the terrorists? Iranians are actually being assasinated by other governments (Isreal, USA, UK), yet there is no outrage; but Iran is accused of plotting an assasination of a Saudi - mere accusations - and Western nations are ready to unleash all hell on Iran. I ask - who are the terrorists?

Luke · 2012-01-11T12:08:23Z

Isn't assassin meant to be originally a persian invention?

hukk phinn · 2012-01-11T14:20:44Z

from: the pants suit princess

"I want to categorically deny any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran"... this coming from a serial, psychopathic liar, the notorious hillary c... what she really means is that we clandestinely support jew dogs outside Iran, to kill who she wants them to... is more evidence needed to indict these monsters, or are the other nations of the world too fucking patsy to the ameriKKKan's wishes and wants?