EXPLOSIONS IN TEHRAN – Nuclear Scientists Targeted, One Dead
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, November 29, 2010, 6:10 AM
A university scientist was killed and another one wounded in two separate car explosions in Tehran on Monday morning.
IRNA
Iran Press News reported on the explosions:
Mehr reported that the “terrorists” were riding motorcycles.
Police say terrorists in both attacks were motorcyclists and attached magnetic bombs to the bodyworks of the physicists’ cars. The two academics were on the way to Shahid Beheshti University in north Tehran when they came under attacks.
The LA Times reported:
Two separate explosions killed a nuclear scientist and injured another in the Iranian capital Monday morning, official news outlets reported.
Both scholars’ wives and a driver were also injured in the attacks, according to the news agencies. The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, was a member of the nuclear engineering team at the Shahid Behesti university in Tehran, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency, or IRNA.
No one claimed responsibility for the attacks and no arrests have been made, Iranian officials said. But they prompted a stern warning by the normally cool-headed head of Iran’s atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, who described Shahriari as a former student.
“Do not play with fire,” he said, according to IRNA. “There is a limit to the Iranian nation’s patience and if we run out of patience the enemy will suffer adverse consequences. Of course we still maintain our patience.”
The injured scholar, Fereydoun Abbas, also taught at Shahid Beheshti, one of Iran’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi advised the enemies of Iran not to play with fire.
The Iranian regime said the Zionists were behind the attack.
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Granny commented:
Had to be Mossad. TheWon doesn’t have the balls and the CIA is in shambles anyway.
Granny commented:
BTW, apparently this story really low-balls the significance of these guys. According to Debka, Shahriari is the Iranian’s top expert on computer codes and cyber war and the man who heads the team trying to rid the Iranian nuke program of Stuxnet.
BuddyG commented:
By any means necessary.
Mike commented:
Had to be the Israelis. Number one, it was effective. Number two, notice how only the intended targets were killed while the wives and drivers were injured but not killed. The Israelis are famous for their execution success and their compassion for those not directly targeted.
daryl commented:
Lesson:
Play with fire, you get burned.
A certain little ornery norK should take heed.
DaMav commented:
This wasn’t a ‘terrorist’ attack as the press is characterizing it. Obviously these guys are legitimate military targets.
Good job somebody
Limping Geezer commented:
Don’t forget the Iranians are now paranoid about security leaks in their program. They may have been killed as traitors and spies.
Mannie commented:
More, please.
greg commented:
Wikileaks will publish the state dept analysis of this operation next week , Monday at 1400 hrs
Mark1957 commented:
Definitely the Israeli’s were behind this. Which proves yet again, You don’t mess with the Zohan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viFoAsjkArg
RedBeard commented:
Don’t worry, Barry. Go play basketball while others do your job for you.
Fen commented:
“Do not play with fire”
Awww, the poor little sponsors of Hamas and Hezbollah terror cells are upset someone adopted their tactics.
Faster please.
Alex commented:
All I have to say is good riddance.
David Rogers commented:
The NorKs aren’t worried. They aren’t facing Israel.
Blaggart commented:
I think it’s terrible they blew him up. Without hurting him for a while first.
Militant Conservative commented:
Pop a cork and Hallaluya to the party responsible. Most likely Israel.
power was dry now smokin.
reliapundit commented:
THE IRG HIT THEM: THESE ARE THE GUYS WHO DOWNLOADED STUXNET.
GOOD commented:
Finally good news from the Terrorist Islamic Republic of Iran.
Opus#6@AmericanPerspective commented:
Don’t forget that the Saudis are just as anti-Iranian as anybody. Could have been them, and they have the money to finance this type of activity. A few good mercenaries….
jainphx commented:
Eliminate those who are at the top and maybe the underlings will be easier to cope with. I understand the Grand Leader has terminal cancer. May it be contagious.
tennismom commented:
Way to go, special forces (of whatever democratic nation) who did the job!
Let’s hope this assassination sets an example for further anti-terror action around the globe: well targeted, well timed, no collateral deaths.
I wonder, where does Kin Jung Un park his car?
PJ commented:
Hmmm…..Could it have been Iranians themselves punishing those who let in the Stuxnet?
FB commented:
That’s the problem for Iran. They have so many enemies, it can’t be easy to figure out who is doing what.
gus commented:
If you believe for a split second that Opie and the U.S. had anything to do with this, you might just be a MORON.
Obama is NEVER going to do covert actions against a nation he calls THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC.
Meanwhile, back in Portland, I’m sure the LIBTARDS are screaming about WAR CRIMES.
George B commented:
“Don’t forget that the Saudis are just as anti-Iranian as anybody. Could have been them, and they have the money to finance this type of activity. A few good mercenaries….”
But the Saudis, blessed with cheap energy and unlimited sand, can’t even make glass. Israel has the ability to do a well executed targeted guerrilla attack.
Arch commented:
There are indirect consequences of this action. Other engineers and scientists will be very reluctant to be part of the Iranian nuclear weapons program. I agree that it’s probably the Israelis which makes the threat all the more frightening.
Good job, guys (who ever you are); keep it up.
Chisum commented:
Nuclear scientist killed in Tehran was Iran’s top Stuxnet expert
http://www.debka.com/article/20406/
jomojava the infidel commented:
Could have been taken from Joel Rosenburg’s new book, The Twelfth Imam”
Arch commented:
Sometimes fear is a good thing.
In Columbia two decades ago, terrorists kidnapped an elderly Israeli diplomat and held him for ransom in the mountains. Without his medication, the old man got sick and realized that he might die, so he made a decision.
He took off his blindfold and told the young men holding him that he was from Israel, a nation that would never pay for him. If he were to die, they the Israelis would send agents to track them all down and kill them. It might take years, he told them, but they would all meet premature, violent death. He then announced that he was leaving.
The terrorists let him go.
dunce commented:
Mossad is pretty good especially compared to the cia but they are not that good.Besides killing a couple of scientists is not an effective way to stop their abomb.This was an inside job by the irg for sabotaging the program and leaking secrets.
morteza commented:
Any kind of terrorism is condemned. Down with terror. may be our scientist rest in peace,Amen
Arch commented:
Dunce:
As we all know, there is considerable internal Iranian opposition to the current illegitimate government and to their ill advised and costly nuclear weapons program. Many of the dissidents are young Persians who resent the mullahs, are still smarting from the post election demonstartions and want the strict islamic codes relaxed. The Kurds are also a long time opponent of Teheran. The Israelis have the technology to make these sophisticated hits. My guess is that Mossad at least provided the bombs and used locals to carry out the attacks. Regardless, these events are encouraging.
John Blake commented:
Probably Stuxnet-related; probably Mosad-inspired, at suitable removes. Next up: Other take-downs of Iran’s suppurating mullah-ocracy, likely with adjunct implications for North Korea apropos obliteration of Syria’s incipient nuclear-threat facility in 2007.
The more we perceive Israel’s steadfast determination to pre-empt these creeps, the better we appreciate societal values uncorrupted by U.S. PCBS. Go, Tel Aviv!
hookey commented:
Since the target was a PhD in nuclear physics, will he have 72 grad students waiting to serve him in Paradise?
CJ commented:
“The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, was a member of the nuclear engineering team at the Shahid Behesti university in Tehran…”
Good stuuf. Now he’s Shahid Shahriari.
morteza commented:
i agree with you my friend i think these kinds of attacks make some people happy. iran’s nuclear activities cost us so much!!
morteza commented:
there is good saying it says”to be hosted by your own petard”,this is the case about our goverment, mulla plot bomb in other countries too.
Mannie commented:
> hookey commented:
> Since the target was a PhD in nuclear physics, will he have 72 grad students waiting to
> serve him in Paradise?
Thread winner!
Wading Across commented:
To #34 – Jomojava, I thought the exact same thing. I just finished Rosenberg’s new book, “Twelfth Imam”.
willis commented:
I think it was the 13th Iman looking for a promotion.
Mitch H. commented:
In close proximity with the WikiLeaks revelations of Saudi Arabia’s anxiety about stopping the Iranian Bomb via force if needs be, this really smells like Saudi-sponsored Jundallah to me. Especially in conjunction with an attack carried out via Cycles of Violence™.
RebeccaH commented:
Of course the Iranians are “maintaining their patience”. At this point, they can’t do anything else.
Halichoeres bivitatus commented:
Where is the bomb damage to the Peugot in the video? I see bullet holes but no bomb damage. The other car shown in pictures from other sources is riddled with bullet holes also. Just looks like a grenade attack + hand guns to me.
tioedong commented:
are they working on the bomb or merely professors? If they only teach, it might be the Iranian gov’t paying them back for supporting the Green movement, as a warning to other teachers with the added attraction that they can blame the US/Israel.
And since only 40percent of Iranians are Farsi, you can’t overlook locals being involved.
tblack commented:
Its unfortunate Israel does not just send over attack aircraft and completely wipe out the nuclear program in Iran.
NadePaulKuciGravMcKi commented:
Israelis are dancing again.
Just like they did on 9/11.
More Murder
More Terror
Jerry C commented:
#53-loser
Muslims were the only ones dancing on 9/11. Muslims=More Muder & More Terror. Burn in Hell with your non-existent 72 virgin boys you loser.
Chisum commented:
adePaulKuciGravMcKi commented:
Israelis are dancing again.
Just like they did on 9/11.
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I have a very clear recollection of 9/11. The only people I saw dancing in the streets were Arabs.
Listen up commented:
Did anyone notice the announcer is wearing a tie? The tie is a sign of western culture and has not be acceptable in Iran since the revolution…you never see Iranian leaders in ties…strange.
BTW the Israelis pulled this off…look for more to come! Good job Israel!!!!!!
Dianne commented:
It could have been a bomb in a car, but then again, it could have been just another lemon from General Motors that blew up when it got over heated. With GM’s quality control, its hard to tell.