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IRAN: NUCLEAR SCIENTIST DIES UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
adnkronos international ^ | Jan. 25, 2007

Posted on 01/25/2007 6:00:54 PM PST by nuconvert

IRAN: NUCLEAR SCIENTIST DIES UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

Tehran, 25 Jan. (AKI) - One of Iran's top nuclear scientists, Ardeshir Hassanpour, a professor at the university of Shiraz, has died under mysterious circumstances. Hassanpour's death was announced by Iranian state television, a week late, on Thursday. No reason was given for his death. The scientist was proclaimed the best scientist in the military field in the Islamic Republic in 2003. Hassanpour directed the centre for nuclear electromagnetic studies he had founded in 2005.

He had also co-founded the center for atomic research in Isfahan, the most important in the country, Iranian state television reported.

Last year, Ardeshir Hassanpour was awarded Iran's most prestigious scientific award, the Kharazmi prize.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ardeshirhassanpour; arkancide; hassanpour; iran; nukes
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To: unkus

Maybe it is just a simple case of a demonstrated reason why even the Europeans have been telling them that it is best to have oversight by nations that have been at this for a while.


41 posted on 01/25/2007 6:11:43 PM PST by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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To: nuconvert

They're gonna blame...guess who...again...THE JOOS!!


42 posted on 01/25/2007 6:12:04 PM PST by Pharmboy ([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
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To: PrkChps

It's quite possible that the Iranians no longer found him usefull.


43 posted on 01/25/2007 6:12:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

"a professor at the university of Shiraz"

I could go with a good Shiraz right now!


44 posted on 01/25/2007 6:12:27 PM PST by popdonnelly (Our first obligation is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

cuz they waited a week to report it?


45 posted on 01/25/2007 6:12:37 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: popdonnelly

Sorry, I wanted to be first and didn't spell check.


46 posted on 01/25/2007 6:13:01 PM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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To: TADSLOS; Pride in the USA
Jack Bauer.

My first thought

47 posted on 01/25/2007 6:13:11 PM PST by lonevoice (It's always "Apologize to a Muslim" hour...somewhere)
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To: everyone

If this happened, it's clearly news -- either good or bad.


48 posted on 01/25/2007 6:13:53 PM PST by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: nuconvert
..yes I agree--Mossad

A lot easier to deal with the aftermath than leveling Tehran with a Jericho...

49 posted on 01/25/2007 6:14:15 PM PST by WalterSkinner ( ..when there is any conflict between God and Caesar -- guess who loses?)
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To: nuconvert

Well, I feel sorry for the guy. He was in a bad line of work. Here's hoping his in a better place.


50 posted on 01/25/2007 6:14:18 PM PST by popdonnelly (Our first obligation is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: cripplecreek

On the usefulness note, could it be possible that he just might have been the source for the enriched uranium deal in Georgia we have been hearing about?

Sure, that is most likely a Russian deal but one never knows eh?


51 posted on 01/25/2007 6:14:29 PM PST by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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To: Just sayin

Your guess was the same first thought that came to my mind.

Perhaps he wasn't taking the program in the direction that somebody wanted him to.


52 posted on 01/25/2007 6:14:56 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: nuconvert

Sounds like the "Long Arm" reached out and touched him.


53 posted on 01/25/2007 6:15:08 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: nuconvert

Bush hired the Clinton Mafia


54 posted on 01/25/2007 6:15:11 PM PST by moonman (`)
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To: nuconvert

Urainus 169...not to be confused with Uridium.

Very common in the Muslim world.


55 posted on 01/25/2007 6:15:19 PM PST by mmanager
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To: Pharmboy

Well, DUH! It's always the Joooooooooooooooooos!


56 posted on 01/25/2007 6:16:28 PM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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To: 2111USMC

I have alot of crazy thoughts about what this could mean. Hopefully, whatever it actually is, it will see movement on this issue in the international community.


57 posted on 01/25/2007 6:16:48 PM PST by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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To: misterrob

A case of acute Mossad ...


58 posted on 01/25/2007 6:17:38 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: nuconvert

Now we have an interesting method to stop Iran's nuclear program in its tracks. No military, no sanctions, no talk, just some good assasination teams.

Think about taking Kahn out in Pakistan in 1977. Program over, so sorry.


59 posted on 01/25/2007 6:18:41 PM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: PrkChps

"Did the Israelis whack him or did our guys whack him?
Discuss."

As far as I can recall, it's never even been rumored that the U.S. whacked a scientist. Stories have made the rounds concerning the Israelis and the KGB. There was the British gent who was going to build Saddam a really big cannon. And there were a couple of British aerospace engineers who died under somewhat suspicious circumstances.


60 posted on 01/25/2007 6:19:08 PM PST by popdonnelly (Our first obligation is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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