...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.
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.
That is high praise.
Something to do with the 38 IAEA inspectors being barred?
It was the Joooooooos!
Not when it comes from an Arab nut on another message board.
Iran nukes ping for later.......
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....
Kind of reminds me the fate of an artillery expert who was working for Saddam...
Would this guy have been so vital to development that his death could toss the Iranians the Russian's way for enriched Uranium?
Bull!
What? That it reminds me?!
Oops, didn't realize that. Pardon.
* 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
...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.
Gerald Bull.
Sorry... my fault ;-)
Oh, no apologies necessary. I thought the guy was funny.
A class @ Shiraz shouldn't have such dire consequences.
I could wait years for the next opportunity that good!
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