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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: popdonnelly
As someone who's been accused of being a member of the Mossad

That is high praise.

61 posted on 01/25/2007 6:19:30 PM PST by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: AdmSmith

Something to do with the 38 IAEA inspectors being barred?


62 posted on 01/25/2007 6:19:43 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: nuconvert

It was the Joooooooos!


63 posted on 01/25/2007 6:20:28 PM PST by El Sordo
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To: Bahbah

Not when it comes from an Arab nut on another message board.


64 posted on 01/25/2007 6:20:38 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: nuconvert

Iran nukes ping for later.......


65 posted on 01/25/2007 6:20:41 PM PST by indthkr
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To: nuconvert

Interesting point, I had forgotten about that tidbit. Maybe he was trying to pass them intelligence and bust Iran out? Imagonnajihad has some 'splainin ta do....


66 posted on 01/25/2007 6:21:58 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: Jack Hammer

Kind of reminds me the fate of an artillery expert who was working for Saddam...


67 posted on 01/25/2007 6:22:13 PM PST by alecqss
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To: popdonnelly

Would this guy have been so vital to development that his death could toss the Iranians the Russian's way for enriched Uranium?


68 posted on 01/25/2007 6:23:01 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: alecqss

Bull!


69 posted on 01/25/2007 6:23:48 PM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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To: nuconvert
Let me guess, Massaud (I know, misspelled)?
70 posted on 01/25/2007 6:25:55 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Marxis-Dimocrats stand for everything I hate and wish to see destroyed, including them!)
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To: nuconvert
I know more Iranians (Persians) than most people because my wife is a Baha'i and many in that community, Baha'i or not, are associated with Persia/Iran. I can tell you from personal knowledge that "Iranians" aren't bad guys. By the same token the bad guys have taken control of Iran and the majority of the population who disagrees with them are being held hostage.

I have a feeling this is someone who was willing to go along just so far but that he refused an order to do something immoral and paid the ultimate price for that act of courage.

I think that we need to start compiling a list of martyrs to human civilization from this and other Jihadi countries. We need to count on these brave souls because it's obvious that our own Congress isn't up to the task.
71 posted on 01/25/2007 6:27:00 PM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: null and void

What? That it reminds me?!


72 posted on 01/25/2007 6:27:49 PM PST by alecqss
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To: popdonnelly

Oops, didn't realize that. Pardon.


73 posted on 01/25/2007 6:28:25 PM PST by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
Maybe he didn't die... maybe he took the Nauru challenge and the Mullah's can't find him :

* Operation Weasel : TOKYO -The United States and at least 10 other countries helped arrange the defections of up to 20 top North Korean officials including key nuclear scientists in an operation that began in October, according to an Australian newspaper. The Weekend Australian reported that a man it identified as the "father" of the North Korean nuclear program, Kyong Won Ha, was among the defectors and is providing intelligence information to Western officials. Kyong and the other officials had escaped to China and went on to other countries with the help of consulates and embassies, the newspaper reported. The United States helped set up, and pay for, an embassy in Beijing for the tiny Pacific Island of Nauru specifically to help move the defectors, though none eventually went to the embassy, the Australian said. Nauru, an 8-square-mile island in Melanesia northeast of Australia, was persuaded to cooperate in part because of a promise that the U.S. would help it avoid financial sanctions being considered for the nation as a "non-cooperative country." The Chinese route for defections from North Korea has become an increasingly sensitive issue. China, an ally of North Korea, does not accept Koreans who cross the shallow river border as refugees, and has forcibly returned many people.-------- "20 officials defect from North Korea," By Doug Struck, WASHINGTON POST, Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2003 via Contra Costa Times, April 22, 2003

74 posted on 01/25/2007 6:29:22 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: FreedomNeocon
This thread is making me thirsty...

...a professor at the university of Shiraz

That is... you could say this is a result of Bush's "surge" plan that the democrats, hagel, voinovish, warner and all are backing.


75 posted on 01/25/2007 6:29:22 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: alecqss

Gerald Bull.


76 posted on 01/25/2007 6:29:55 PM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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To: null and void

Sorry... my fault ;-)


77 posted on 01/25/2007 6:33:03 PM PST by alecqss
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To: Bahbah

Oh, no apologies necessary. I thought the guy was funny.


78 posted on 01/25/2007 6:33:28 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: NRA2BFree
a professor at the university of Shiraz ...

A class @ Shiraz shouldn't have such dire consequences.

79 posted on 01/25/2007 6:36:26 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: alecqss
Your fault??? Are you kidding? It was the perfect set-up!

I could wait years for the next opportunity that good!

80 posted on 01/25/2007 6:37:30 PM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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