Last week’s talks between Teheran and the P5 + 1 (representatives of the UN Security Council’s five permanent members, plus Germany and the European Union) began with the Iranian delegation condemning the recent assassination of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist—part of a widening covert campaign targeting the country’s nuclear program.
On the morning of November 29, Shahriari was killed while on his way to work. In what was a highly sophisticated operation, motorcycle-borne assailants affixed a magnetic bomb to Shahriari’s car, then quickly detonated it.
At almost exactly the same time, a second Iranian scientist, Fereidoon Abbasi, narrowly averted assassination in a like manner. Aware that something had been placed on his car, Abbasi fled the driver’s seat and was attempting to get his wife out of the car when the magnetic bomb exploded. The couple suffered only minor injuries...
But all the participants in last week’s talks are well aware that the US, Israel, Britain and allied Western powers are waging a campaign of sabotage against Iran’s nuclear program. John Sawers, the head of Britain’s MI6, called in late October for “intelligence-led operations” against Iran’s nuclear program to be stepped up.
Shahriari and Abbasi are far from the first Iranian nuclear scientists to be targeted for assassination. Last January, nuclear physicist Dr. Masoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed in a bomb attack on the streets of Teheran. And in 2007, another nuclear scientist, Ardeshir Hosseinpour, died of what was reported to be gas poisoning. At the time, Stratfor, a strategic-intelligence research company with close connections to the US security establishment, said Hosseinpour’s death had all the hallmarks of an Israeli security operation.
Teheran has also accused the US and Israel of kidnapping several of its scientists who have disappeared. Opponents of the Teheran regime have argued the missing scientists defected.
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