Covert action against Iran
Who killed the professor?
New light is being cast on the strange death of an Iranian physicist
Feb 11th 2010
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Who cares who killed the professor? Does any reader here really believe that 65 year old technology can still be the intellectual domain of only one man in a nation of 70,000,000 people? Nuclear power is coming to Iran whether readers like it or not, and I say the sooner the better to balance the threats in the region.
If they blew up our defense industry scientists and engineers we'd call it terrorism. If they waterboarded our soldiers we'd call it torture.
Go figure.
Assassinations, targeted murders, war crimes... Such are noble the ways of "the beacon of democracy" in the Middle East.
talk is cheap, and while the rest of the world rings its hands and does nothing, Mossad is quietly getting the job done!!
Since NO ONE has any evidence, including the Economist, why attempting to re-focus attention of Israeli involvement..., I wonder...??
P.S. My question should read: Why attempting to focus attention on Israeli involvement..., I wonder...??
Economist Editors,
Please don't make me laugh. I know you guys back the Israelis to the hilt, but that should not becloud your intelligence. Of course, Meir Dagan's Mossad boys carried out the murder of the Iranian scientist. Even if the Iranian scientist was hobnobbing with the North Tehrani opposition elite, it is unlikely the Iranian regime would have bothered to blow him up when he could simply be picked up by the police, tried in a kangaroo court and sentenced to years in a jail. The only people who would like to assasinate him is the Israeli Mossad or Western Intelligence agencies. But given the track record of the Israeli State on matters of this nature, it is likely that Meir Dagan's boys carried out the murder.