Who’s Systematically Murdering Iranian Nuclear Scientists?
Who’s bumping off Iranian nuclear scientists?
Cui bono? (Who benefits?)
Who, besides the U.S. and Israel, has been obsessing about the purported development of Iranian nuclear weapons?
In January, 2010, a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi, 50, who “taught neutron physics at Tehran University.” In November, 2010, two separate car bombs exploded within minutes of each other on the same day, one that killed nuclear scientist Majid Shahriar and wounded his wife, and the other which wounded another nuclear scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, along with his wife. Then, in July of last year, Darioush Rezaei, 35, was shot dead and his wife was wounded by two gunmen firing from motorcycles outside of their daughter’s kindergarten; Rezaei “did his doctorate in neutron transport – which lies at the heart of nuclear chain reactions in reactors and bombs” and “was a member of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, the country’s official atomic energy commission.”
And now, yet another Iranian scientist has been killed. According to Iranian media, a 32-year-old university professor, Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, died when an assailant riding on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car, which then detonated and killed him. According to The Washington Post‘s Thomas Erdbrink, a conservative news outlet in Iran reported that the young scientist “was believed to be involved in procuring materials for Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.”
As Greenwald points out, no matter who’s doing it, the murder of civilians on foreign soil meets the definition of terrorism. He quotes Kevin Drum:
“After all, killing civilian scientists and civilian leaders, even if you do it quietly, is unquestionably terrorism. That’s certainly what we’d consider it if Hezbollah fighters tried to kill cabinet undersecretaries and planted bombs at the homes of Los Alamos engineers.”
Greenwald concludes:
If, as is widely assumed, the Israelis are responsible, does that mean that Israel is a Terrorist state, and if U.S. agencies are complicit in some way, does that mean President Obama is a Terrorist, a state sponsor of Terrorism or, at the very least, a supporter of Terrorism?
Read Glenn Greenwald’s full post here.
One thought on “Who’s Systematically Murdering Iranian Nuclear Scientists?”
Given that the publicly stated goal of the ruling theocrats in Tehran and their allies is to drive the Israelis into the sea, how else should the Israelis respond? You can bet that the neighboring Sunni states (along with Christian and other minorities) are quietly thinking “right on”, even if they publicly condemn these violent acts. Makes our politics at home look like kindergarten.