Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a nuclear physics professor from Tehran University, died today in a bomb attack near his home in northern Tehran, sparking dueling allegations of assassination from the government and the Reformist opposition.
Iran’s state media reported that the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, a monarchist group which claims to be at the forefront of the US backed Reformist movement, took credit for the attack. It is unclear if this is the same group that took credit for the early 2008 Shiraz mosque bombing.
The Iranian government seized on the claim, however, blaming American and Israeli agents for backing the attack. Another professor at the university concurred with these claims, saying it was widely believed that he was assassinated by US backed militants.
The US State Department has officially denied any role in the killing, and while the US is known to back the Jundallah militants in the nation’s far east, there is no publicly known evidence linking it to any militant monarchist group.
Reformists, on the other hand, immediately labeled the death a political killing by the Iranian government, citing a heretofore unknown statement from the professor backing the Reformist movement and suggesting he might have planned to seek asylum overseas at some unspecified point in the future.
But this too appears unsubstantiated. Iran’s government has had few qualms about arresting and in some cases killing opponents, and it seems needlessly complicated to orchestrate such a bombing when Reformists have been shot on the street. Likewise, Prof. Mohammadi was not involved in the nation’s nuclear program, so it seems unlikely he would’ve had any information that made him any sort of unique political threat. Even if he was, his arrest as a dissident would’ve been more in keeping with the situation on the ground.
In the end it seems like there is too little information to draw any conclusions about Mohammadi’s killing, but the fact that both sides were so quick to blame the other points to the growing level of rancor in the nation.
He was not a nuclear physicist. Some facts here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbur…
>>Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a nuclear physics professor from Tehran University
Turns out the guy wasn't even a nuclear physicist. At
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=2…
we read:
"An Iranian theoretical physicist named Masoud Alimohammadi was assassinated in Teheran Tuesday. Alimohammadi’s publication list indicates that he began his career specializing in conformal field theory, and more recently had been working on questions in general relativity. Initial news reports inaccurately characterized him as a “nuclear physicist” and speculated that he was assassinated because of his association with the Iranian nuclear program, but there seems to be absolutely no reason to believe this."
Whether Mossad or the CIA did this is irrelevant. This is “The Quiet American” escalated to the 21st century GWOT supposed fear-mongering — instead of ‘communism’.
Like JFK when he knew that the 'national security state', the “shadow government”, the "Secret Team" (as Fletcher Prouty calls them), or the ruling-elite Global corporate/financial/militarist Empire (as I call it) was conspiring and moving toward war at this advanced level, Obama must stand-up and confront this death-spiraling situation.
JFK knew that he had been set-up and put "in a fix" as Curtis LeMay (CIA) actually verbally confronted him in the White House about the Cuban Missile Crisis (after the CIA pressure to employ US forces in the Bay of Pigs).
Obama, has now been pressured several times and put “in a fix” by the CIA generals and the deceitful media leaks by the MIC/Empire through the 'good offices' of the senior uniformed 'regular' military leadership — you know, the ones like Adm. Mullen, Gen. Petraeus, and Gen. McChrystal, who are 'regular' CIA also — and are pushing hard toward broad M.E. and Central Asian war (even though it will 'end badly', if ending in nuclear war is 'ending badly').
Obama is reaching his JFK crisis turning point, his Truman turning point with McArthur in using Korea to launch war on mainland China, his Eisenhower turning point with the MIC.
Obama knows that he is being ‘gamed’ and put “in a fix” by the militarist Empire behind the superficially ‘democratic’ two-party ‘Vichy’ government and equally ‘Vichy’ media (which is pushing hard now for global war, under the guise of antiterrorism — all the while pushing ‘fear’ to roll both the US people and Obama).
Obama, knowing this, put a ‘shot across the bow’ of the global corporate/financial/militarist Empire during his Nobel address by quoting JFK’s American University 6/22/63 speech — which was JFK’s first fully PUBLIC shot at the Empire after working only behind the scenes to press the Empire on the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile crisis ‘set-ups’ for global war.
Obama must now, even more publicly tell the American people that he is being railroaded toward war and so are we. He must expose and confront the Empire that he has only been dueling with in the dark. He must fight it in the light and with the help and support of the American people (except, of course, those ruling-elite behind the Empire)
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
The CIA is not worried about Iran's nuclear program. U.S intelligence has stated that they believe that there is no illicit nuclear weapon's program.
Only one country – and a Lobby group in the U.S.A – would be interested in assassinating a supposed Iranian nuclear scientist. And they have a history of screwing up their intelligence – or just killing those they 'think' might be a threat to them.
The "only democracy in the Middle East". The one who gives the orders to the POTUS .
Obama, Alan MacDonald from Sanford Maine, is part of the problem – not the solution…
To me this is VERY obvious that this carries the handwriting of the Mossad!
It is designed to seed trouble. The Iranian's would not be interested in that case.
W.
Israel has frequently said it would asasinate Irans scientists and one is assasinated. End of story
Part 1 of 4
This scientist is not the only brainy Iranian killed this way and he might not be the last.
If you Google “assassination Egyptian Iraqi Iranian physicists” you might find some alarming facts.
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As far as I am aware, this scientists is the third Iranian casualty. Last year “…a world authority on magnetism..” was mysteriously killed. JP indirectly boasted it was a Mossad job. Also an Iranian (nuclear) scientist has been kidnapped by Saudis and handed over to CIA. Iran claims he is in a US prison.
No doubt Iran is facing many formidable and determined foreign enemies.
If Iranians are smart they can neutralize some of the plots of their enemies.
Part 2
Nearly all reliable American polls and deductions from other mathematical Estimation techniques prove "with high level of confidence" that:
Ahmadinejad won the June election by a wide margin.
Then why the corporate media trumpeted false claims and lies of “rigged” election and “widespread” fraud”?
The Anti-war analysts who have studied the “color revolutions” see the hands of the foreign enemies of Iran in that event.(Google “effort to destabilize Iran” and read some of the revealing facts on such assertion)
The fears of “war with Iran” or “instigation of a civil war in Iran” are still hovering around.
Part 3
The question is,….can Iranians neutralize the sinister plots of the outsiders? At this point in time their chances of success is not high. The horizons are dark considering the current power of the corporate media, US Congress, Obama being in the white house, majority of the American public believing Iran is a (nuclear) threat and the enormous international resources being utilized to crash Iran, (100s of million dollars of budgeted cash and expert groups of saboteurs working full time on Iran).
Sadly the skies are getting darker day after day.
Part 4
IF as a first step, the Iranian protestors show civility and maturity, ACCEPTING the WILL of the MAJORITY and stand behind (THEIR theocratic, backward and corrupt ) regime
then, the plots of the neo-cons and warmongers might get botched away. Unfortunately that is a big IF.
Otherwise if they make the same mistake of Fatah in Palestine ie not accepting the result of a legitimate election….then…. another Iraq tragedy is on the works.
IF the progressive anti-regime Iranians realize that history is in their side, by being PATIENT, not in far future, the opportunities will arise to establish a long-desired secular, civil and democratic system of government…. without any interventions from any of the outsider hegemonic villains.
I found something interesting on this subject (using google)
Congresswoman Jane Harman, in an interview blames Iran for the assassination::
"….it's a sign of desperation to start killing your own nuclear scientists…."
Read it in:
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Acti…
The above URL is too long…just google the texe ie "it is a sing of …." to find the post.
Hey gore-etti you are on a anti war website. Go find a israeli website where you could masturbate to pictures of blown up little kids along with your jewish brothers
Whether he is a scientist or a professor, it matters little. Both professions can help expand Iranian Nuclear capabilities, as a professor he can train new future specialists in the field. Which means such a person will be a perceived "threat" to one of the following:
1. CIA
2. Mossad
3. Local Arab Anti-Iranian Organizations
Not for 1 moment do I believe the Iranian Government was somehow involved.
Oh I think the Iranian Government did it , but I would not refuse to look at the other suspects . Sometimes the truth is stranger than viction !