It’s tough to be an engineer or scientist in Iran these days, as involvement in anything remotely military-related puts a target on their backd. This appears to have happened with Dr. Ayoob Entezari, an aerospace engineer who died last week under very suspicious circumstances.
Entezari was reported to have worked on missile and drone projects within Iran, and was found dead last week after attending a dinner party. Initial reports claimed food poisoning.
A lot of this is just speculation and unconfirmed reports, but Entezari’s poisoning was speculated by relatives to have been intentional, while local officials chalked it up as an illness. The host of the party he died after, not named, has reportedly left the country.
Iranian media seems to be downplaying the assassination reports, suggesting Entezari was just an ordinary employee and not a high-value target.
Israeli media, by contrast, seems to be embracing the assassination narrative, reporting that Israel will expand a regional travel warning anticipating possible revenge for the killing, with the unspoken implication that Israel was behind the plot.
By any means necessary.
‘the host of the party left the country’
Sanctions kill. All you have to do to commit terrorism inside a country like Iran, is to throw buckets of money around and offer asylum.
“Mysterious circumstances”?
Ahem, I believe we all know what that means, and exactly who was involved.
Israel took out the wrong guy or Iran downplaying his importance but this was a assassination, the host leaving the country proves it.
“Israel Gets Away With Murder Again”
What the headline should have read.
It’s also commonly assumed Israel murdered Canadian aerospace engineer Gerald Bull in 1990. Speaking as an aerospace engineer myself, you have to wonder where the line might be.
This sounds like a bad script for a made for t.v. movie… Of course, the ending is predictable; Israel is the villain… A bit true to life…