TIME: Mossad Trained, Paid Assassins in Iran

Arutz Sheva ^ | 14/1/12 | Chana Yaar

[Eleutheria5]

TIME Magazine cited "sources" Saturday who said Israel's Mossad agency was responsible for paying and training assassins to kill Iranian scientists in the past two years.

The U.S.-based magazine also quoted unnamed Western intelligence sources as saying Israel was also responsible for the explosion at an Iranian military base outside Tehran last year.

Last week another Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a car bombing in broad daylight, the third to be assassinated in two years, just a few days after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that activation was to begin deep underground at the Fordow uranium enrichment facility near Qom.

Professor Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was known publicly as an oil industry expert at Sharif University of Technology -- but it turned out he was also a nuclear scientist, heavily involved in Iran's nuclear development activities.

The U.S. State Department immediately denied responsibility for the murder in a statement to the media. In addition, President Barack Obama also picked up the phone and called Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to demand an explanation after hearing about the hit.

Perhaps as a result of all the brouhaha, Israel's President Shimon Peres on Friday officially denied responsibility for the assassination, breaking the nation's standard policy of not commenting on intelligence matters. Peres told CNN's Spanish-language channel, "I am well aware that it is 'fashionable' to blame Israel and the U.S. whenever something negative happens there."

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[Eleutheria5]

Bibi to Shimon: We didn't do it. Honest.

Shimon: What didn't we do again?

Bibi: Something negative.

Shimon: OK. If you say so. I'll go make a statement.

Bibi: Chuckle.

Shimon: What was that?

Bibi: What was what?

Shimon: Oh, never mind.

[gorush]

:{)

[montag813]

I love the Mossad.

[gaijin]

Khurds, I heard.

[Zeppo]

TIME Magazine cited "sources" Saturday

And of course we all know that Time Magazine would never lie (smirk)...

[maine yankee]

As for the scientists;

Play stupid games

Win stupid prizes

[Red Badger]

President Barack Obama also picked up the phone and called Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to demand an explanation after hearing about the hit.

WHAT'S TO EXPLAIN? BOMB GO BOOM................

[Tex-Con-Man]

This was the Obama administration leaking classified information to Time as a warning to Israel not to attack Iran without our permission, which, as long as Obama is president, will never be granted.

Bibi...you have friends in the U.S., but they don't work in the executive branch. They are the ones currently undermining your efforts to survive.

[grey_whiskers]

"Sources?"

Like, who?

Ron Paul and Michelle Ma Belle? /sarc>

Cheers!

[dragnet2]

I love the Mossad.

Eastern branch of the CIA.

[elhombrelibre]

TIME is like the New York Times. The only secrets they can keep are the ones that protect Barak Obama.

[meatloaf]

That’s belittling to Mosad.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Attribution please.
Time reporters might recall this concept from journalism 101.

[lurk]

Mossad operates on a level of invisibility that ghosts would envy.

I’m pretty sure a bumbling news magazine like Time would have a hard time getting access to anything legit on Mossad.

[Keith in Iowa]

Does TIME think this is a bad thing? :)

[Oztrich Boy]

I thought Mossad was competant and know what they are doing.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

so it is written, so shall it be.

[MichaelP]

Obama had this deliberately leaked to the times!

[MichaelP]

Obama had this deliberately leaked to the times!