Posted on 07/23/2011 9:18:59 AM PDT by csvset
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been shot dead outside his home in Tehran, Iranian media sources say.
The Isna news agency named him as Daryoush Rezaei, 35, adding that his wife was wounded. His identity has not been officially confirmed.
In 2010, nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb in Tehran.
Iran blamed that attack on Israeli secret service Mossad.
Israel has long warned about Iran's nuclear programme.
Some reports said the latest attack involved assailants on a motorcycle, but this has not been confirmed.
Isna said that Mr Rezaei was an expert with links to the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.
'New provocation'
The US, Israel and many Western nations have opposed Iran's atomic programme, fearing it may be a front to creating a nuclear bomb.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is for purely peaceful purposes. This week, Iran said it was installing newer and faster centrifuges at its nuclear plants, with the goal of speeding up its uranium enrichment process.
Enriched uranium can be used for civilian nuclear purposes, but also to build atomic bombs. The French government condemned the move as a "new provocation".
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Well, Boo F’in Hoo. LOL Bet the life insurance premiums for Iranian nuclear scientists are now as high as a nuclear mushroom cloud.
Not as high as "Number 3 man in Al Qaeda." A couple of those guys die every year.
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I appreciate it.
Man killed in Iran shooting was student, not nuclear scientist
From the Associated Press July 23, 2011, 2:29 p.m.
TEHRAN— Iran said the victim of a deadly shooting Saturday was a university student, not a physicist involved in the country's nuclear program as state media had first reported.
A mix-up over the victim's name apparently led to the confusion, the English-language Press TV said.
An AP story in the LA Times quoting Press TV. That's reliable.
So, the shooter got the wrong guy? lol.
Why would assailants on a motorcycle shoot a student? lol.
Regime is ridiculous
ABC.net.au: "NUCLEAR SCIENTIST SHOT DEAD IN IRAN" (SNIPPET: "Darioush Rezaie, 35" SNIPPET: "Several nuclear scientists have been assassinated in Iran in the past few years.") (Posted July 24, 2011, 17:57)
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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