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Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed in Car Blast

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Posted on Jan 11, 2012
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Iran is evidently not the safest of places to be a nuclear scientist, as another from among their ranks, 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, was killed Wednesday in Tehran by what the city’s deputy governor characterized as both a magnetic car bomb and the work of Zionist operatives. Meanwhile, the country’s VP, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, told the local press that this loss would not sway Iran from continuing with its nuclear program.  —KA

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Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an academic who also worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and the driver of the car were killed in the attack.

The blast happened after a motorcyclist stuck an apparent bomb to the car.

Several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in recent years, with Iran blaming Israel and the US. Both countries deny the accusations.

The US state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters she did not have “any information to share one way or the other” on the latest attack.

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 9:46 pm Link to this comment

There is a thing on the side of the browser called a scroll bar. It allows you to scan down and read the posts that you can’t see at the moment. They didn’t disappear, they are further down the page now because you are posting anything you can think of to try to derail the discussion because you are not mature enough to admit defeat or smart enough to debate me. I am done here. I feel bad continuing to shoot you down and besides, you are in a death spiral so why waste the ammo…

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By heterochromatic, January 11 at 9:28 pm Link to this comment

stop jerking, working. if you think you’re right about something, spit it out

or swallow it and good night.

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 9:13 pm Link to this comment

I’m still waiting for you to do that. Keep trying to change the subject, it proves that you know I am right and that you are too weak to admit it.

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By heterochromatic, January 11 at 8:52 pm Link to this comment

if that’s all you have, enjoy playing with yourself but stick with the day job, dude
and via con dios.

you wanna say something, i’ll refute it for you.

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 8:32 pm Link to this comment

Your failure to see it is your own.

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By heterochromatic, January 11 at 8:07 pm Link to this comment

Again, attempt to MAKE your point rather than pretend that you have.

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 8:01 pm Link to this comment

Again, what you leave out speaks volumes. Are you conceding, or ignoring, your defeat?

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By heterochromatic, January 11 at 7:55 pm Link to this comment

try putting that defeat to me, work, and I’ll do my best not it ignore it.

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 7:48 pm Link to this comment

What you leave out speaks volumes. Are you conceding, or ignoring, your defeat?

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By heterochromatic, January 11 at 7:40 pm Link to this comment

the killing of al Awlaki was not only justified and legal, it was, sadly,  a well-
deserved death for a person who chose to be a piece of trash, the world does not
need more killing but the world is not missing anything without the traitorous
murderous ass.

as al Awlaki was an American, al Awlaki would have applauded having his
American ass wiped out…...

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By Arabian Sinbad, January 11 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment

That the f…n bloody Congress authorized the assassination of Al-Awlaki does not lessen the criminality of the action; it rather makes the crime more horrible for being a collective effort by a bunch of criminal war-mongers.

This is the same f…n bloody congress, employed in the service of the political-military-industrial complex, that keeps authorizing criminal wars all over the world!

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By heterochromatic, January 11 at 6:57 pm Link to this comment

work——Ron Paul is right to say that we shouldn’t
take likely the death of al Awlaki, but killing him was
authorized by the Congress and that’s sufficient.

and if some other American was unintentionally killed
while in the company in Yemen of al Awlaki, such are
the fortunes of war.

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 6:24 pm Link to this comment

From PRI:

Signs are slowly coming forward. There’s the Stuxnet worm that targeted centrifuges, of course. And the American drones that have been flying over the country, including one that was captured. But Wednesday morning, it became clear that there’s a direct approach underway as well. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed when a magnetic bomb was attached to his car by a speeding motorcyclist.
Roshan is the fourth Iranian nuclear scientist to be assassinated in the past two years

Link to full article: http://www.pri.org/stories/world/middle-east/video-iranian-nuclear-scientist-assassinated-doomsday-clock-ticks-closer-to-midnight-7898.html

From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting:

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON PANETTA: But we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability, and that’s what concerns us. And our red line to Iran is, do not develop a nuclear weapon. That’s a red line for us. They need to know that, if they take that step, that they’re going to get stopped.

The way that’s presented you’d think that the United States has evidence that Iran is pursuing a weapon. Leon Panetta’s soundbite is from his appearance on Face The Nation on Sunday. But the NewsHour removed one key phrase; right before Panetta says, “But we know,” he said this:

Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.

Link to the full article: http://www.fair.org/blog/#post-20186

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 5:39 pm Link to this comment

But Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas questioned the propriety of the death, warning that Americans shouldn’t take lightly the execution of a U.S. citizen who hadn’t been convicted of a crime. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which had challenged in federal court Obama’s right to target Awlaki, called his death an assassination and the “latest of many affronts to domestic and international law.”

A second American, Samir Khan, the editor of the English-language Al Qaida magazine Inspire, also died in the attack. Khan, who was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in New York, moved to North Carolina with his family in 2004. He was known for a militant blog while he was a student at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte.


It is precisely when faced with someone you despise, but has committed no crime, that the urge to throw away the book is strongest. It is exactly for this reason that the book is written in the first place.

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By heterochromatic, January 11 at 4:55 pm Link to this comment

workman____ I’m denying that “murdering people you
don’t like is approved as a general tactic by the U.S.
Government.”

and in particular, I’m denying that you have any reason
to link the death of this guy to the US.

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By thomas mc, January 11 at 4:42 pm Link to this comment
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Israel is a rogue terrorist state, trying to drag the
USA into a nuclear war.

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 4:20 pm Link to this comment

heterochromatic, You are denying that the U.S. has been involved in assassinations or extra-judicial killings? And your argument is that the lowest common denominator sets the tone? I will take being perceived as confused by you as a compliment.

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By Arabian Sinbad, January 11 at 3:57 pm Link to this comment

This and the several other previous murders of Iranian scientists has the hallmark of evil Zionist Israel in cooperation with evil American CIA. Those are the two entities that have both a long history and know-how due to their long experience in assassination!

Another proof that both political-military America and fascist Zionist Israel are the two most dangerous entities to world’s peace.

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By heterochromatic, January 11 at 2:44 pm Link to this comment

working man _____ you seem a little confused.

murdering people you don’t like is approved by the Iranian government , not
that of the US.


```“In the name of God the Almighty. We belong to God and to Him we shall
return. I would like to inform all intrepid Muslims in the world that the author of
the book Satanic Verses, which has been compiled, printed, and published in
opposition to Islam, the Prophet, and the Qor’an, and those publishers who
were aware of its contents, are sentenced to death. I call on all zealous Muslims
to execute them quickly, where they find them, so that no one will dare to
insult the Islamic sanctities. Whoever is killed on this path will be regarded as a
martyr, God willing. In addition, if anyone has access to the author of the book
but does not possess the power to execute him, he should point him out to the
people so that he may be punished for his actions. May God’s blessing be on
you all.”—- Rullah Musavi al-Khomeini.”

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By Laurence Glavin, January 11 at 2:11 pm Link to this comment
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During one of those soundbite marathons incorrectly
called debates, Rick Santorum praised such actions and
not only hoped they’d continue, but that the US was
clandestinely behind them (possibly in cooperation with
Israel).  I wonder what foreigners think of the crew
running for the Oval Office on the Republican side.

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By they call me the working man, January 11 at 1:24 pm Link to this comment

In Chicago, host of the overlapping North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Group of Eight summits in May, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed limiting the hours of demonstrations, tightening permit rules and jacking up fines. The minimum penalty for violating parade rules, for example, would soar to $1,000 from $50.

In other news, murdering people you don’t like is approved as a general tactic by the U.S. Government.

WAKE UP!!!

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