One of Iran’s top military nuclear scientists has been killed:
Details about the slaying remained slim in the hours after the attack, which happened in Absard, a village just east of the capital that is a retreat for the Iranian elite. Iranian state television said an old truck with explosives hidden under a load of wood blew up near a sedan carrying Fakhrizadeh.
As Fakhrizadeh’s sedan stopped, at least five gunmen emerged and raked the car with rapid fire, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency said.
Fakhrizadeh died at a hospital after doctors and paramedics couldn’t revive him. Others wounded included Fakhrizadeh’s bodyguards. Photos and video shared online showed a Nissan sedan with bullet holes in the windshield and blood pooled on the road.
While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed the finger at Israel, calling the killing an act of “state terror.”
“Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice — with serious indications of Israeli role — shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,” Zarif wrote on Twitter.
So in todays media-speak it was “a mostly peaceful condemnation of Irans nuclear policy”? Still, they have been working at it for 30-ish years and still no bomb to show for it.
Here’s my question… What the hell do the Iranians think it says about their internal security state if they can credibly blame the Israelis for killing one of their key scientists on Iranian territory?
Something about this smacks of Iranian weakness and self-delusion.
Not to mention, WTF is it with their “science”, if it’s taking them decades to reiterate the work that the US did in a few short years of WWII, under wartime conditions and constraints?
Whatever that is saying, it ain’t what I’d call “good”.
Kirk, did your alt write this? Or have you not noticed that their progress has been deterred by attacks and sanctions?
What does it say about American Internal Security when they let terrorists strike. Or France Or Britain or Germany.
The problem is not Iranian science. It’s enriching uranium, which is extremely difficult. It’s actually easier to go the plutonium route, because plutonium extraction from a radio-isotope mixture is a relatively straight forward chemical procedure. Of course you need a breeder reactor.
The real point is the evil that is Mossad. If you think Israel is an ally, look up the USS Liberty.
Bob,
No doubt you’ve read this book and found its arguments wanting:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/40510
USS Liberty. Now that’s a blast from the past.
Remember the Maine!
“USS Liberty. Now that’s a blast from the past.”
The Liberty is only a “blast from the past” for mayflies with no memories.
The name “Pollard” should ring a more recent bell.
https://nypost.com/2020/11/20/convicted-israeli-spy-jonathan-pollard-free-after-completing-parole/
Courtesy of Marginal Revolution blog: https://twitter.com/barakravid/status/1333080696282288128?s=21
It alleges the hit was done with a remote controlled machine gun at a range of 150m. As described the scenario feels “too much can go wrong for a one-time opportunity” to me, but the guy is dead, so what do I know.
Harry Jones says: Remember the Maine!
Remember the Lavon Affair.
“It alleges the hit was done with a remote controlled machine gun at a range of 150m.”
And then those silly Israelis had forgotten to file off the “Made in Israel” stamps on the gun. Duh!
If someone were to plan to do such an operation remotely, surely they would have fired something big and inescapable like an anti-tank weapon rather than a small bullet?
It sounds increasingly like something done by the Iranians themselves. Maybe to stop the scientist defecting? Maybe to give them a casus belli? Maybe the scientist is still alive, and this was a feint to throw genuine foreign assassins off his case?
Nothing about the Iranian “official story” makes a damn bit of sense. Why wouldn’t the Israelis use a drone? A Predator and a Hellfire would have no potential for captured personnel, even if they got detected and shot down.
The Mossad isn’t perfect, but…? Human operatives, on the ground? How the f**k does that even begin to make sense?
Either this is a cover story, and a badly-plotted one at that, or it’s something else. Iranian internal dissidents, maybe? Factions within the Iranian government? Both are a lot more likely, to my eye.
“…“USS Liberty. Now that’s a blast from the past.”
The Liberty is only a “blast from the past” for mayflies with no memories.
The name “Pollard” should ring a more recent bell…”
Or even closer where the Jews blew up the WTC complex on 9-11. You can be 100% sure it was an inside job by them because building 7 fell with “zero” support, except air, for roughly 108 feet. Even the NIST report was forced to include that it fell in free fall because, well it did. No building can “free fall” through thousands of tons of steel columns and concrete. I don’t care how big the fire was it didn’t turn the steel into a gas the same density as air needed for free fall. One hour before the fall the building was filmed and only three or four floors were on fire. In order for it to fall as it did by fire at least 10 floors would have to be on fire so ferociously that all the support was vaporized to the same density as air. Of course that didn’t happen.
Uh uh. Paranoid anti-Jews are out today, strangely they did not came up with US Navy, US Army or USAAFE actions against themselves and each other in war and out of it just for comparison…
Anyway this might have been something from Iran rebels or Saudis.
If the action is correctly reportedly with gunmen it is archaic.