Iranian Nuclear Scientists Killed: Israel Teamed With Terror Group To Coordinate Deadly Attacks, U.S. Officials Say

Iranians take part in the funeral of assassinated nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, holding his portraits (left and center)and a poster bearing U.S. President Barak Obama with the Star of David on his forehead (right), in Tehran on January 13, 2012, two days after he was killed when men on a motorbike slapped a magnetic bomb on his car. (File photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran’s leaders.

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Comments

[robertstone1robert]

01:52 PM on 02/14/2012

The question has to be asked. Why expose the method an ally uses to dispose of a common enemy? The answer: The morons in the fancy pants in the State Dept. did it deliberately. This precisely coincides with the appeasement philosophy of this administration. It is also running scared. Israel has to realize this is no ally in the White House. Obama has been indoctrinated too much by Wright, who is wrong in everything.

[ElTan]

03:58 PM on 02/17/2012

If our ally is supporting terrorism, I'm fine with us not lying to cover their tracks.

[robertstone1robert]

11:00 PM on 02/18/2012

If we or our allies have to resort to terrorism to combat the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the madmen in Iran, threatening the whole world, I can afford to hold my tongue.

[Nwo2012]

06:23 PM on 02/11/2012

"But when articles invoking the Holocaust and urging “creative destruction” in Iran appear on the same day (Feb. 7) in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Bloomberg News, a skeptical observer might be forgiven for suspecting a well-coordinated propaganda campaign."

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/israels_real_target_obama/singleton/

Read it all, as they say.

[Thelastofthemoderates]

04:30 PM on 02/11/2012

Just a thought.... I mean it does make sense that Israel would pull something like that after the whole Munich death squad and all. Doesn't it also make sense that Iran HAS THE BOMB, and was sealing leaks about it by killing their own scientists, and in the slight of hand grabbing diplomatic advantage by pointing the finger at Israel for those deaths. . .

Just saying ... Could be either way, but I wouldn't put it past Iran

[Nwo2012]

06:22 PM on 02/11/2012

*eyeroll*

[Thelastofthemoderates]

07:31 PM on 02/11/2012

Just saying and all, if I was Tom Clancy I would have a best seller on my hands.

[itiswhatitmaybe]

12:58 AM on 02/10/2012

"Other than a 45 minute conversation in Geneva, there was really no effort put into negotiatio­ns. We've spent more time getting the Taliban to the table than getting the Iranians to the table."

– Vali Nasr
Salon, Sanctions v. negotiations on Iran
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/31/sanctions_v_negotiations_on_iran/singleton/

US fingers MEK, Israel in scientist killings; Lieberman seeks to block diplomacy
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/

Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over Iran’s Nuke Program, Seymour Hersh
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/21/seymour_hersh_propaganda_used_ahead_of

IRAN AND THE I.A.E.A., Seymour Hersh
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2011/11/iran-and-the-iaea.html

Iran: The Neocons Are At It Again, Ralph Nader
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/11-9

[Nwo2012]

03:51 AM on 02/10/2012

Seymour Hersh nails it. Thanks

[BcemXAHA]

11:27 AM on 02/12/2012

I love how they're gagging you, warms my heart! have another bon bon!

[uk progressive]

11:54 PM on 02/09/2012

Israel=terror
Hand=glove

[anton123]

12:20 AM on 02/10/2012

reason != stupidity
progressive != blind
criticize != bashing

[60699]

10:44 AM on 02/10/2012

You must not have done very well on those grade school aptitude tests..

[uk progressive]

11:21 AM on 02/10/2012

Yes top of my class.

[yomero]

11:01 PM on 02/09/2012

Wonder if mossad going to be called a terrorist organization by Homeland Security..?

[BcemXAHA]

10:01 AM on 02/11/2012

Just as soon as the CIA is!

[yomero]

04:55 PM on 02/11/2012

Might be because CIA and MOSSADA sleep in the same bed.

[yomero]

10:54 PM on 02/09/2012

Freedom fighters or terrorists....?..all is on the observer opinion.

[erehwon2]

12:18 PM on 02/10/2012

Let me make it simple for you:

Terrorists: direct violence specifically at civilians in order to induce terror in the masses

Freedom fighters: strike primarily at military targets while protecting their own people

[yomero]

04:16 PM on 02/10/2012

agree

[ElTan]

04:05 PM on 02/17/2012

They're just political terms, if al-qaeda were only planting bombs on our military bases, we'd still call them terrorists. When we want the ruling party to be overthrown (usually to install a government more identical to our ideal system), we call them freedom-fightors, rebels at worst (so long as we know they're good rebels, like the ones in Star Wars.)

[zt54]

10:23 PM on 02/09/2012

What kind of terrorists? You mean the Freedom fighters of Iran that Hilary threw under the bus a couple of years ago?

I think payback for countless IED's Hamas attacks, Kidnappings .... is in order here. Not to mention buying time.

Maybe Brian knows where we can find a few more Iranian Scientists? Perhaps we should bring Brian in for a waterboard session and find out how he knows so much?

[analyse this]

10:16 PM on 02/09/2012

Terrorism is terrorism. If you support Israel in terrorism, just say so. But don't hide behind veneers of justice, victimization, nationalism or the sins of the other. "Israel supports terrorists and I support it"- say it out loud. But you lose the right to complain about anybody else advocating terrorist harm on Israel.

[windedbear]

11:04 PM on 02/09/2012

I don't think assassinating a evil scientist in order to postpone the development of a nuke by a hostile government counts as terrorism more like the bush policy of preemptive action only this time on a surgical level.

[Freenation]

11:41 PM on 02/09/2012

"assassinat­ing a evil scientist"

how do you know he was evil? because he was iraninian....

[anton123]

12:11 AM on 02/10/2012

Completely agree.

[Nwo2012]

10:28 PM on 02/09/2012

Terrorism is fine when israel does it. Didn't you know.

Please stay on message.

[anton123]

12:19 AM on 02/10/2012

Come on.
Can you update your mean anti-Israeli vocabulary with some new words? :-)
You can do it ;-)

[Alan Ray]

10:46 PM on 02/09/2012

There weren't any car bombs involved in the attack on the King David Hotel. Members of the Irgun dressed up as milkmen and smuggled explosives into the hotel by carrying them in milk containers. They placed them in the basement and then ran away before the explosion.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4667.htm

Also I'm sure the group that claimed responsibility for the Marine barracks bombing, Islamic Jihad (Hezbollah) had plenty of knowledge of suicide truck bombings from previous attacks. After all they bombed the Israeli headquarters in the city of Tyre on November 11th, 1982 and the US Embassy on April 18, 1983. They didn't bomb the Marine barracks until October of 1983.

[itiswhatitmaybe]

09:04 PM on 02/09/2012

“…direct evidence that (a) Israel is involved and (b) the U.S. has engaged in substantial covert acts of war aimed not only at the Iranian nuclear program generally but at Iran’s nuclear scientists specifically.”

-- Glenn Greenwald
Salon, Iran and the Terrorism game
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/iran_and_the_terrorism_game/singleton/

"...overall, I can say the situation is pretty serious since the West is trying to misuse Iran’s nuclear program, which is peaceful so far. Iran is definitely not building a bomb. The West are using fraudulent reports by the IAEA – I was there twice, I spoke to diplomats – there’s a big scandal. They are using it to build up a war case against Iran with the Western populations through our misguided media. It is a very dangerous situation."

-- Christoph R. Hoerste
RT, Oil toy: ‘Iran embargo to bring little joy to EU’
http://rt.com/news/oil-iran-eu-nuclear-253/

[anton123]

12:22 AM on 02/10/2012

Another clueless one that considers propaganda from Russia Today as real journalism :-)
Any unbiased sources?

[zaydesvox]

08:39 PM on 02/09/2012

If this is true then Gold comes out of Khomeni's Tuchas!

[aprilsavin]

08:39 PM on 02/09/2012

Cool....go Israel, The community organizer has abandoned our most loyal ally, so Israel go for it. Take out Iran once and for all!
Hopefully the community organizer will be finished come 2012, and we will once again support the "GOOD GUYS"

[coach5532]

08:38 PM on 02/09/2012

Why would US Officials be so stupid as to provide this type of classified information to the news media. The US Official responsible should be brought up on charges.

[Nwo2012]

09:50 PM on 02/09/2012

The arrogant tools in Netanyahu's government have overplayed their hand with Obama.

This was deliberate.

[anton123]

12:24 AM on 02/10/2012

Really??
You must have very serious connections in Netanyahu'­s government then...
Are you a secret Zionists? ;-)
Or just regular blabber. :-)

[Tidyus]

10:14 PM on 02/09/2012

Well, it was obvious to most everyone long ago that Israel was the one assassinating the Iranian scientists wasn't it?

[LostDemocracy]

08:23 PM on 02/09/2012

An article in the Iranian press circulated now in the Revolutionary Guard's Fars news agency but originating at the website Alef, which has ties to the Supreme Leader – calls for genocide against Jews.

I would rather see Israel, a living Israel condemned than a dying Israel receive the sympathy and condolensces of the international community.

[Nwo2012]

10:29 PM on 02/09/2012

Link please!

Go on ill wait.