Posted on 10/17/2009 7:46:53 PM PDT by nuconvert
Recent defections of noted Iranians mirror those from the old U.S.S.R.
Someone is stealing Iran's nuclear experts.
Physicist Shahram Amiri, a researcher at Tehran's Malek Ashtar University, went missing in June on the third day of a pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
His family says the medical isotope specialist, who worked in an institution identified by the European Union as a possible secret nuclear weapons lab, phoned home when he first arrived but hasn't been heard from since.
The pro-government Iranian newspaper Javan (Young) said this week Saudi immigration officials questioned Mr. Amiri extensively when he first arrived for a personal pilgrimage, but three days later he left his hotel in Medina and never returned.
A week ago, four months af ter his disappearance, Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran's Foreign Minister, finally went public with the case, blaming the United States and Saudi Arabia.
"We have obtained documents that show U.S. interference in the disappearance of Shahram Amiri in Saudi Arabia," he said. "We consider Saudi Arabia responsible for the situation and we consider Americans to have been involved in his arrest."
Neither Washington nor Riyadh will comment on the case.
A second Iranian scientist, identified only as "Ardebili," was apparently arrested in September while on a trip in Georgia. He was allegedly secretly extradited to the United States.
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there’s hope, though. Secretary of State Clinton has declared a new era of cooperation on missile defense between the US and Russia.
Seriously doubt the US was involved, cause Zero would tell them in a heartbeat.
Good news for a change!
The Iranians have been in cold war mode for 30 years already.
“The Iranians have been in cold war mode for 30 years already.”
Yea that Iranian hostage crisis didn’t seem all that warm and fuzzy.
Mossad?
“The New Cold War”
This time the enemy is in the White House and supported by our “elected” (hah!) “representatives”.
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