Iranian Nuclear Professor killed in bomb attack

[hornetrider]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/84534...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle...

Times said:

Iran today accused American and Israeli agents of assassinating a leading nuclear scientist who worked as a professor at Tehran University.

Massaoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed near his home in northern Tehran this morning by a booby-trapped motorcycle. The state broadcaster IRIB blamed the attack on "Zionist and American agents".

"The assassination of Mr Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a nuclear scientist and a committed and revolutionary Tehran University professor, was detonated by a remote control," IRIB said on its website.

"As a result of the bomb planted by Zionist and American agents two cars and a motorcycle were severely damaged and the windows in the surrounding residential units were shattered."

Iran is embroiled in a bitter dispute with the West over its nuclear ambitions. The Islamic Republic denies Western accusations it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

A senior Interior Ministry official, Mehdi Mohammadifar, said earlier that the motive for the bombing was under investigation.

Are our hands dirty on this one?

[Asterix]

Or he's a mole and has been feeding us (the West) with the info (remember not long ago we suddenly found out about another facility and it took the Iranians completely by surprise) and they took him out and handily blame us?

[10 Pence Short]

It's obviously winding up for a bit of fistycuffs.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the US were talking about the possibility of strikes against Irans nuclear facility earlier this week.

[Halb]

Anyone could have an MO for killing this chap. Iranians, Chinese, Americans, Brits, Isrealis and we shall never know.

It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

[hornetrider]

Asterix said:

Or he's a mole and has been feeding us (the West) with the info (remember not long ago we suddenly found out about another facility and it took the Iranians completely by surprise) and they took him out and handily blame us?

I like the cut of your jib there Mr Clancy. Sounds likely to me.

[10 Pence Short]

Oh for a return to innocence.

[Halb]

hornetrider said:

Asterix said:

Or he's a mole and has been feeding us (the West) with the info (remember not long ago we suddenly found out about another facility and it took the Iranians completely by surprise) and they took him out and handily blame us?

I like the cut of your jib there Mr Clancy. Sounds likely to me.

To me too, we need a George SMiley in the PH ranks...

[Asterix]

I am, in fact, a spy - but you'll never find out as I am rather good.


Ah....



...bugger.

Or is the above a double bluff?