Posted on 02/04/2007 2:19:05 PM PST by em2vn
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.
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.
Rheva Bhalla of Stratfor, the U.S. intelligence company, claimed on Friday that Hassanpour had been targeted by Mossad and that there was “very strong intelligence” to suggest that he had been assassinated by the Israelis, who have repeatedly threatened to prevent Iran acquiring the bomb.
Hassanpour won Iran’s leading military research prize in 2004 and was awarded top prize at the Kharazmi international science festival in Iran last year.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to announce next Sunday — the 28th anniversary of the Islamic revolution — that 3,000 centrifuges have been installed at Natanz, enabling Iran to move closer to industrial scale uranium enrichment.
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency say that hundreds of technicians and laborers have been “working feverishly” to assemble equipment at the plant.
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According to every Middle-easterner on the Planet the Mossad
is responsible for everything that goes awry.
Anyway we should be dancing in the street and throwing candy to children! Oh yes and random bursts of fire from
our full auto rifles.
Hopefully, its true.
Good.
Now let them all look over their shoulders for the Mossad agents that did it!
HAH. It would be brilliant to tell them this even if it wasn't true!
Apparently, uranium hexaflouride reacts with even tiny amounts of atmospheric water to produce a really nasty substance called hydroflouric acid. Unlike Gerald Bull who took a few slugs to the back of the head never knowing what happened, this guys departure was most painful.
UF6?
Thinking along the same lines. (see my #7)
Uranium, IIRC, is not a real good thing to ingest, either.
I'll combine my mourning with my Super Bowl howlings.
Sorry, but I've got to ask, what does IIRC stand for?
If I remember correctly.
And now if an accidental "BOOOOMMMMMM" happens in their underground bomb factory, we can breath easy for a few more months.
If I Recall/Remember Correctly. I use it a lot because I suffer from CRS. (Can't Remember ... uh stuff?)
Thanks. I don't use the computer enough now to have to use shorthand for things.
It's had me puzzled whenever I saw it.
Do what I do, keep this link handy
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Sometimes it will give just way too much information, but it's often useful.
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