Posted on 01/12/2010 3:32:22 PM PST by myknowledge
The killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist on his own doorstep sounds like an incident straight out of a juicy spy novel. Or so the Iranian authorities would have us believe. The truth behind the murder of Masoud Ali-Mohammadi may remain shrouded in mystery.
Who benefits from his death? Not the alleged killers, the CIA or Mossad — unless Dr Ali-Mohammadi was such a high-level nuclear scientist that his death would decapitate the atomic weapons programme that most of the outside world believes Iran is trying to hide.
Experts and intelligence agencies are sceptical that any such individual exists, and if one does, Dr Ali-Mohammadi was an unlikely candidate.
His students have said that he had pledged written support to the opposition and was increasingly critical of the regime, although this did not make him an obvious target for the regime itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
If the Iranian mullahs killed a senior dissident of the mullahcracy, then they have eliminated another enemy of the state, which could be used as a pretext for the roundup of more enemies of the state.
Not if he was 'done'.
I'd say Iran's leaders consider an enemy of the state as any scientist with knowledge of their true 'nuclear' status.
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IMO, The regime does what it has to do as it has done for last 30 yrs - no further excuses are needed by the regime for further crackdown. Inside Iran, most people understand the regime's actions and intentions.
This repeated news is mainly for "outside Iran consumption", which, as usual, MSM and others have picked up on. IOW, for the regime it is a "storm in a tea cup".
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