Let's get started with some sabotage first:
"Iranian general dies in explosion" November 14, 2011|Associated Press
TEHRAN - A Revolutionary Guard commander killed in an explosion at an ammunition depot west of Tehran was a key figure in Iran’s missile program, the elite military force said in a statement yesterday.
General Hasan Moghaddam was killed together with 16 other Guard members Saturday at a military site outside Bidganeh village, 25 miles southwest of Tehran. The Guard said the accidental explosion occurred while military personnel were transporting munitions....
I suppose they have to say that or they admit they can not secure their own country.
An exiled Iranian dissident group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, has claimed that the blast was at a missile base run by the Revolutionary guard rather than an ammunition depot.
Lawmaker Parviz Soroori was sure the blast was accidental....
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"Explosion at Iranian testing site a setback" December 05, 2011|By David E. Sanger, New York Times
WASHINGTON - The huge explosion that destroyed a major missile-testing site near Tehran three weeks ago was a major setback for Iran’s most advanced long-range missile program, according to US and Israeli intelligence officials and missile technology analysts.
In interviews, current and former officials said that surveillance photos showed that the Iranian base was a central testing center for advanced solid-fuel missiles, an assessment backed by outside specialists who have examined satellite photos showing that the base was almost completely ruined in the blast.
Such missiles can be launched almost instantly, making them useful to Iran as a potential deterrent against preemptive attacks by Israel or the United States.
Solid-fuel missiles are also easier to hide and are better suited than older liquid-fuel designs for carrying warheads over long distances.
It is still unclear what caused the Nov. 12 explosion, with US officials saying they believe it was likely an accident, perhaps because of Iran’s inexperience with a volatile, dangerous technology.
Then it WAS SABOTAGE!
Iran declared it an accident, but subsequent discussion of the incident in the Iranian news media have referred to the chief of Iran’s missile program as one of the martyrs killed in the huge explosion.
Some Iranian officials have talked of sabotage, but it is unclear whether that is based on evidence or surmised after several years in which Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated on Tehran’s streets and a highly sophisticated computer worm has attacked its main uranium production facility.
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Both US and Israeli officials, in discussing the explosion in recent days, showed little curiosity about its cause.
“Anything that buys us time and delays the day when the Iranians might be able to mount a nuclear weapon on an accurate missile is a small victory,’’ one Western intelligence official who has been deeply involved in countering the Iranian nuclear program said this weekend.
“At this point, we’ll take whatever we can get, however it happens.’’
That's practically an admission of guilt.
In addition to providing a potential deterrent to attackers, Iran’s advances in solid-fuel missile technology, and the concern it could eventually have intercontinental reach, have been at the heart of the Obama administration’s insistence on the need for new missile-defense programs.
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"Iranian nuclear expert killed by bomb blast/" by Ali Akbar Dareini and Brian Murphy | Associated Press, January 11, 2012
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — It seemed a clockwork killing: Motorcycle riders flashed by and attached a magnetic bomb onto a car carrying a nuclear scientist working at Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility.
See: Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs
Moved 'em next door.
By the time the blast tore apart the silver Peugeot, the bike was blocks away, weaving through Tehran traffic after what Iran calls the latest strike in an escalating covert war.
The attack — which instantly killed the scientist and fatally wounded his driver on Wednesday — was at least the fourth targeted hit against a member of Iran’s nuclear brain trust in two years. Tehran quickly blamed Israeli-linked agents backed by the US and Britain.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton denied any US role in the slaying, and the Obama administration condemned the attack.
This government is filled with such a bunch of damn liars.
However, provocative hints from Jerusalem reinforced the perception of an organized and clandestine campaign to set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The day before the attack, Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a ‘‘critical year’’ for Iran — in part because of ‘‘things that happen to it unnaturally.’’
The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, the centerpiece of Iran’s expanding program to make nuclear fuel. Roshan, 32, had planned to attend a memorial later Wednesday for another nuclear researcher who was killed in a similar pinpoint blast two years ago, Iranian media said.
‘‘A heinous act,’’ said Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization of Wednesday’s bombing.
It added a tone of defiance. ‘‘We will continue our (nuclear) path without any doubt ... Our path is irreversible,’’ said the statement carried on state television.
The state news agency IRNA said Roshan had ‘‘organizational links’’ to Iran’s nuclear agency, which suggests a direct role in key aspects of the program. Another news agency, the semiofficial Mehr, said Roshan had been interviewed by inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency — which Iran has accused of placing its scientists in peril by including their names in public reports.
Natanz, in central Iran, is the country’s main enrichment site. Officials said this week they were expanding some operations to an underground site south of Tehran with more advanced equipment.
The US and its allies are pressuring Iran to halt uranium enrichment, a key element of the nuclear program that the West suspects is aimed at producing atomic weapons. Uranium enriched to low levels can be used as nuclear fuel, but at higher levels it can be used as material for a nuclear warhead.
Iran denies it is trying to make nuclear weapons, saying its program is for peaceful purposes only and is geared toward generating electricity and producing medical radioisotopes to treat cancer patients.
But we are not listening to that. Btw, how would you feel if Iran told you your relative couldn't get treatment for cancer, Americans?
The years of virtual stalemate between Iran and the West appear to be shifting into a new period of heightened pressures and tensions.
Russia strongly warned the West on Wednesday against any attack on Iran, saying it would upset global security.
Military action would be a ‘‘grave mistake, a flagrant error’’ with far-reaching consequences for regional and global stability, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the ITAR-Tass news agency. ‘‘It could shake the foundations of the international system.’’
Tehran has accused Israel’s Mossad, the CIA and Britain’s spy agency of engaging in an underground ‘‘terrorism’’ campaign against nuclear-related targets, including at least three other slayings since early 2010 and the release of a malicious computer virus known at Stuxnet in 2010 that disrupted controls of some centrifuges — a component in nuclear fuel production. All three countries have denied the Iranian accusations.
Speaking in Washington, Clinton strongly denied any US role in the latest attack.
‘‘I want to categorically deny any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran,’’ she said. ‘‘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.’’
That's an admission.
Israeli officials, however, hinted at covert campaigns against Iran without directly admitting involvement.
‘‘Many bad things have been happening to Iran in the recent period,’’ said Mickey Segal, a former director of the Israeli military’s Iranian intelligence department. ‘‘Iran is in a situation where pressure on it is mounting, and the latest assassination joins the pressure that the Iranian regime is facing.’’
Iranian authorities pointed the finger at arch-foe Israel.
First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said Israeli agents were behind the assassination, but cannot ‘‘prevent progress’’ in what Iran claims are peaceful nuclear efforts....
Fars described the explosion as a ‘‘terrorist attack’’ targeting Roshan, a graduate of the prestigious Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. Police draped the bomb-ravaged car with a blue tarp and hosed blood from the pavement. Some bits of the vehicle were hurled into the bare branches of trees.
Roshan was a chemistry expert who was involved in building polymeric layers for gas separation, which is the use of various membranes to isolate gases. He was also deputy director of commercial affairs for the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in central Iran. According to conservative news website mashreghnews.ir, Roshan was in charge of purchasing and supplying equipment for the facility.
Natanz remains the mainstay of Iran’s uranium labs. But Iran said this week it was expanding some operations to a bunker-like site south of Tehran protected under 300 feet of rock. The existence of the Fordo facility has been known for more than two years, but some Western officials fear the move could be another step toward developing nuclear arms....
‘‘Assassinations, military threats and political pressures ... The enemy insists on the tactic of creating fear to stop Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities,’’ Fars quoted lawmaker Javad Jahangirzadeh as saying in reaction to the blast.
A similar bomb explosion on Jan. 12, 2010 killed Tehran University professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor. He died when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his car as he was about to leave for work.
Related: Zionists AmeriKan MSM Tells Truth About Iranian Assassinations and Kidnappings
In November 2010, a pair of back-to-back bomb attacks in different parts of the capital killed another nuclear scientist and wounded one more.
The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, was a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran and cooperated with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. The wounded scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, was almost immediately appointed head of Iran’s atomic agency.
Shahriari’s expertise — neutron transport — lies at the heart of nuclear chain reactions in reactors and bombs. And Abbasi, now Iran’s nuclear chief, has been described as a laser expert and one of the few top Iranian specialists in nuclear isotope separation.
In July 2011, motorcycle-riding gunmen killed Darioush Rezaeinejad, an electronics student. Other reports identified him as a scientist involved in suspected Iranian attempts to make nuclear weapons.
Rezaeinejad allegedly participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component in setting off the explosions needed to trigger a nuclear warhead.
Related: Iran is Next Target
They shot the wrong guy?
‘‘Instead of actually fighting a conventional war, Western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran’s nuclear advancement,’’ said Theodore Karasik, a security expert at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis.
And somehow it is ALL OKAY and UNREMARKABLE!
Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born analyst based in Israel, said Iran’s leadership is being pushed toward a decision on whether to ‘‘retaliate or compromise’’ as sanctions squeeze the economy and undercut the value of the Iranian rial.
Hey, I'm banking on Ahmadinejad.
‘‘From the international consensus that we can see against Iran, even if (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) does retaliate, it’s not very likely that the pressure — sanctions and isolation — would ease,’’ he said. ‘‘He’s in a tight spot.’’
Related: E.U. Equivocates on Iranian Oil Embargo
I'm so sick of s*** liars in my mouthpiece media.
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"Bomber kills Iranian scientist; Tehran says West targeting nuclear efforts" by Alan Cowell and Rick Gladstone | New York Times, January 12, 2012
LONDON - A bomber on a motorcycle killed a scientist from Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site and his bodyguard-driver yesterday during the morning commute in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in an assassination that could further elevate international tensions over the Iranian nuclear program and stoke the country’s growing anti-Western belligerence.
Just one?
It was the fourth such attack reported in two years and, as after the previous episodes, Iran accused the United States and Israel of responsibility. The White House condemned the attack and denied any responsibility. The official reaction in Israel appeared to be more cryptic.
Iranian news accounts said the suspected assassin had attached a magnetized explosive device to the scientist’s car and escaped during the rush hour in northern Tehran. News photographs from the scene showed a car, a Peugeot 405, draped in a pale blue tarp being lifted onto a truck. Some photographs published by Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency showed what it said was the body of the scientist still inside the car. The head was covered with a white cloth.
The scientist was identified as Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, a professor at a technical university in Tehran and a department supervisor at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant - one of two known sites where Western leaders suspect Iranian scientists are advancing toward the creation of a nuclear weapon....
“The Islamic Republic of Iran expresses its deep concern over, and lodges it strong condemnation of, such cruel, inhumane, and criminal acts of terrorism against the Iranian scientists,’’ Iran’s UN ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, wrote in a letter sent to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other UN officials....
Good luck over there.
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said it would not be diverted from its pursuit of nuclear technology. “America and Israel’s heinous act will not change the course of the Iranian nation,’’ it said in a statement quoted by Reuters.
The semiofficial Fars news agency, which has close links to the powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, said the bombing resembled the methods used in attacks in November 2010 against two other nuclear specialists - Majid Shahriari, who was killed, and Fereydoon Abbasi, who survived and is now in charge of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. In January 2010, a physics professor, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was also assassinated in Tehran.
Iran blamed Israel and the United States for the attacks in 2010, and the latest killing is bound to deepen an embattled mood in Tehran as the country’s divided leaders approach parliamentary elections in March.
“The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists and is the work of the Zionists,’’ Fars quoted Tehran’s deputy governor, Safar Ali Baratlou, as saying.
Yup.
In Washington, Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council, said in reaction to the attack: “The United States had absolutely nothing to do with this. We strongly condemn all acts of violence, including acts of violence like what is being reported today.’’
BULLSHIT!
In Israel the denial was much more vague. Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai, the Israeli military spokesman, wrote on his Facebook page that “I don’t know who took revenge on the Iranian scientist, but I am definitely not shedding a tear,’’ Agence France-Presse reported.
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Related:
Mossad´s Deep Throats blare Murder at Teheran.
So how does the Zionist and Imperialist deep state boast his homicides ? Richard Silverstein, the so called “thinker” is one of the individuals through which the Zionist State often makes unofficial announcements. In his blogg Tikun-Olam, Silverstein boasts “my own confidential Israeli source confirms that todays murder was the work of Mossad and the MEK“.
Also see: The Iranian Fringe (and Friends)
"Slain Iran nuclear specialist buried" Associated Press, January 14, 2012
TEHRAN - Thousands of mourners chanted “Death to Israel’’ and “Death to America’’ yesterday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
The assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan has raised calls in Iran for retaliation against the United States and Israel, and an independent news website yesterday said Iran is preparing a covert counteroffensive against the West.
Beware the false flag!
"IRAN: US/Israeli “False Flag” Attack May Be Underway
Several warnings of an imminent “false flag” attack by the Israeli-influenced United States on one of its own warships, which will be attributed to Iran, have been reported by several reliable sources. In recent years “false-flag” terrorism has been utilized multiple times by US and Israeli political actors to provide pretexts for otherwise unjustifiable, anti-Islamic military excursions. The plan is to justify an all-out assault on Iran based upon a new fabricated “Pearl Harbor”....
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"Israel has been sending their Dolphin class submarines through the Suez Canal. Traveling on the surface, the Dolphins can travel 8000 miles without needing to refuel. Given a sub-tender in the Indian ocean, Israel's Dolphins may safely be assumed to be at or near the Straights of Hormuz. While the Clinton administration officially refused to sell Tomahawk cruise missiles to Israel, reports are that the US did supply 100 Harpoon missiles which were loaded onto Israel's Dolphins when they made a highly unusual voyage down to Diego Garcia in 2003. Whether later administrations did provide Tomahawks to Israel is unknown. Israel also manufactures the Gabriel series of anti-ship missiles, with the latest version able to fit into a torpedo tube canister launching system. The concern here is that Israel wants the US to go to war with Iran. A Dolphin class submarine running on batteries could easily slip into the shallow waters near the coast of Iran, fire missiles at the US battle groups, and blame Iran for the attack, much as Israel ships and planes attacked the USS Liberty and attempted to blame Egypt for that attack."-- Wake the Flock Up
Roshan, a chemistry specialist and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, was killed in a daylight assassination when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car Wednesday in Tehran. The killing bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the nuclear program.
I was told there was ONLY ONE!
I was told there was ONLY ONE!
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters, called Roshan’s killing a “cowardly assassination’’ and accused the United States and Israel of being behind the attack. He vowed Thursday that the perpetrators and those who ordered the attack would be punished.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a vague condemnation of the killing during a visit yesterday to Lebanon, saying attacks on “any people, whether scientist or civilian,’’ are not acceptable, according to UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has denied any US role in the slaying, and the administration condemned the attack. Israeli officials, in contrast, have hinted at covert campaigns against Iran without directly admitting involvement.
The assassination was carried out a day after Israeli military chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a “critical year’’ for Iran - in part because of “things that happen to it unnaturally.’’
That prompted Hossein Shariatmadari, director of the hard-line Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan, to ask why Iran did not avenge Roshan by striking Israel.
False flag coming.
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"Tehran claims proof US killed scientist" January 15, 2012
TEHRAN - Iran said yesterday that it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran, state media reported. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a daylight assassination Wednesday when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car. The IRNA state news agency said that Iran’s Foreign Ministry sent a diplomatic letter to the United States saying that it has “evidence and reliable information’’ that the CIA provided “guidance, support and planning’’ to assassins “directly involved’’ in Roshan’s killing. The United States has denied any role (AP)."
Maybe they did, maybe they didn't:
The 2007 revelation by ABC News that the Bush Administration was covertly backing the Jundallah terrorist organization in an effort to convince them to launch attacks on Iran was no small embarrassment for the administration, and a considerable source of tension with the Shi’ite world as the militants attacked mosques and killed large numbers of civilians.
The only problem is, it apparently didn’t happen. At least not the way ABC News claims. Instead of being direct US backing, by way of the CIA, for a State Department listed terrorist organization (a big no-no), Foreign Policy is reporting today that the whole thing was actually a Mossad plot designed to frame the CIA and the administration.
Officials cite internal memos, classified of course, from the 2007 and 2008 investigation into the allegations, which found that in reality the people who bought off Jundallah were Mossad agents, with faked US passports and large amounts of US dollars.
“It’s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,” one of the officials said. “Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn’t give a damn what we thought.”
Indeed the unspoken goal of the “false flag” appears to have been to damage what little trust the Iranian government had in the US. Captured Jundallah leaders confessed on Iranian TV that they were funded and directed by the CIA, and apparently they believed that is what was happening.
The report goes on to say that President Bush “went ballistic” when he heard about the Mossad plot....
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Also see: Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization
How 9/11 was done
Israel steals passports
Then uses them to frame or kill people -- a fact they want the world to know otherwise it would not appear in their mouthpiece media.
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