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To: DoctorZIn

Maybe this will slow them down....
Report: Iranian Nuclear Scientist 'Assassinated' (1 down, more to go)
Foxnews ^ | 2/4/2007 | Sunday Times
Posted on 02/04/2007 8:14:24 AM PST by tobyhill
WASHINGTON — A prize-winning Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the U.S. State Department and broadcasts to Iran.

An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.

Hassanpour worked at a plant in Isfahan where uranium hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is needed to enrich uranium in another plant at Natanz which has become the focus of concerns that Iran may be developing nuclear weapons.

According to Radio Farda, Iranian reports of Hassanpour’s death emerged on Jan. 21 after a delay of six days, giving the cause as “gas poisoning”. The Iranian reports did not say how or where Hassanpour was poisoned but his death was said to have been announced at a conference on nuclear safety.

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5 posted on 02/05/2007 10:46:21 AM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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To: 3AngelaD
An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad...

Just Israel's way of saying to the 9th Century knuckledragging mullahs...."thinking of you".

6 posted on 02/05/2007 10:49:46 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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