A former National Research Council scientist has been battling the Canadian government over allegations he participated in Iran's controversial weapons program.
Mohammad Jahazi held a high-level post at the NRC's Institute for Aerospace Research but left Canada in 2008 after Ottawa rejected him as an immigrant for security reasons.
Federal Immigration officials told the Iranian scientist they suspected he had taken part in Iran's arms efforts and had supplied information to Tehran on Iranian dissidents in Canada and Europe. Mr. Jahazi denied the allegations and yesterday........
........The NRC declined comment. The ruling comes amid growing international concern over Iran's missile and nuclear programs, which have been built largely on science and technology stolen from abroad.
The RCMP arrested an Iranian national in Toronto last year for allegedly attempting to send nuclear-related parts to Iran. A Canadian Customs official said last fall his officers had been seizing a wide range of weapons-related shipments destined for Iran.
Mr. Velshi said the government argued that there were inconsistencies in Mr. Jahazi's account of his past and travel history, and that publicly available documentation linked his Iranian employers with arms sales to terrorists.
........He applied to immigrate in 2001 but, after being interviewed by Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers, was rejected on security grounds for being a member of an organization engaged in espionage, subversion and terrorism. The name of that terrorist organization was not publicly named but immigration officials claimed the university where Mr. Jahazi was employed was under the control of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Immigration officials also said the Iranian Research Organization where he worked was implicated in the production of weapons of mass destruction........
Missing yachtsman planned to sail around Australia
- ABC Local - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
chief radiation physicist missing & feared murderd
......Police now believe 65-year-old Bob Chappell met with foul play and his boat was sabotaged.Mr Chappell was the chief radiation physicist at the Royal Hobart Hospital's Holman Clinic. Police say he was planning to retire soon and sail around the country, but he has not been seen since Australia Day, when he was renovating his 16-metre yacht off Sandy Bay and decided to spend the night on board. ====================================
Dr. Shankar Palaniappan, 26
MISSING: 10/9/05 - Toledo, OH
RECOVERED: 10/05 - Maumee River
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Ann Arbor doctor Shankar Palaniappan went to Toledo, Ohio over the weekend to meet with some .... He was going to begin his radiology residency next year. ...
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