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U.S. Denies Blowing Up Iranian Scientist

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Posted on Jan 12, 2010

An Iranian spokesman accused the “triangle of wickedness,” otherwise known as Israel, the U.S. and “their hired agents,” of carrying out the Tuesday bombing of Iranian scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi. The State Department said that was “absurd.”

Mohammadi was either a nuclear physicist or a quantum theorist who supported or opposed the government, depending on which reports you believe.

The State Department’s response to the charge can be found in a briefing transcript here—PZS

BBC:

An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said that “signs of the triangle of wickedness by the Zionist regime, America and their hired agents, are visible in the terrorist act”.

Reports also described Mr Mohammadi as a nuclear physicist, but it later appeared that his field of study was quantum theory.

There was also confusion as to whether the attack had any political overtones.

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By FRTothus, January 13, 2010 at 12:06 pm Link to this comment

There can be no firmer confirmation of US involvement than an official denial.

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
(Thomas Jefferson)

“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”
(William Blum)

“Governments lie, and nothing they say should be believed”
(I.F. Stone)

“Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? - stupid!”
(Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, 1965)

“The news and truth are not the same thing.”
(Walter Lippmann)

“We live in a nation hated abroad and frightened at home. A place in which we can reasonably refer to the American Republic in the past tense. A country that has moved into a post-constitutional era, no longer a nation of laws but an autotocracy run by law breakers, law evaders and law ignorers. A nation governed by a culture of impunity ... a culture in which corruption is no longer a form of deviance but the norm. We all live in a Mafia neighborhood now.”
(Sam Smith)

“The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you’ve got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.”
(Noam Chomsky)

“A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn’t have an air force.”
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“The U.S. record of war crimes has been, from the nineteenth century to the present, a largely invisible one, with no government, no political leaders, no military officials, no lower-level operatives held accountable for criminal actions… Anyone challenging this mythology is quickly marginalized, branded a traitor or Communist or terrorist or simply a lunatic beyond the pale of reasonable discussion.”
(Carl Boggs)

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By WykydRed, January 13, 2010 at 9:47 am Link to this comment

We’re supposed to believe a government full of corruption, tyranny, murder, hatred, cowardice and zero ethics?

I mean America! We ARE the best at getting up someone’s nose, murdering people and then lying about it.

We killed him. Probably some kind of “special forces”, code words for “assassins”. I haven’t believed a single word anyone in government has said since Kennedy. I was 13 then, so I hadn’t really gone back in history to discover all the other bullshit lies…. I hope like hell Iran goes into nuclear weaponry. I don’t give a shit who they use them against because as long as a few have them, then EVERYONE is entitled to own them.

johannes: THANK YOU! I love your accent because I love the way you use words! Truly I do! You may sometimes not have the “proper” English word, but the word you DO use is always dead on, more so than the English word. “Sickmaking”. That is SO perfect, and a hell of a lot better than it’s softer “sickening”. More punch in yours. You aren’t alone! This whole world and everyone in it is pretty sickmaking!

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By johannes, January 13, 2010 at 5:41 am Link to this comment

To drbhelthi,

This kind of storys, are eternal with us, the human history is so sickmaking, reading this history makes me cold inside, if I think on my parents who have fought their hole live for a bether world, without knowing the real truth, as we know now.

I have longtime tought that the humans made the same mistakes, over and again, but no, all this wath happened was planned and expected to happen as wished, we are hopelessly and desperately betrayed by people we MUST trust, makes me angry and sad on the same moment.

Salutation

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By Druthers, January 13, 2010 at 3:46 am Link to this comment

Absurd does not mean untrue.  The truth can be absurd just as much of our foreign policy is.
Killing, assassination - we are the number one specialist.

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By drbhelthi, January 13, 2010 at 1:01 am Link to this comment

When a nugget of truth escapes from the US State Department, or
any official release of the US Gov stance on any political
issue, it is an intentional deception, distracting from the
real agenda. Most of such releases can be traced back to the
GHWBushSr initiation of satanism in the US Gov. NAZI LIC Otto
Skorzeny spilled the beans several years ago. The NAZIs in the
USA and Germany have done an excellent jobs of “doctoring”
public records, per Operation Paper Clip. Increasingly fewer
Americans think, “this could not happen in the US” - - - since
they see what has gone on for several years.
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070405.htm

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By BlueEagle, January 12, 2010 at 10:42 pm Link to this comment

Those at The State Department lie. It’s their job. Occasionally, a nugget of truth escapes.

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