Targeting Iran's nuclear scientists
Targeting Iran's nuclear programme seems to have become about targeting the brains behind it. A top Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and Iran is, predictably, blaming Israel and the CIA. Are the motives as obvious as they seem? And who really stands to benefit from the attacks?
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"US, Israel behind Iran scientist assassination"
On the sixth anniversary of the assassination of a leading Iranian nuclear scientist, a former American intelligence agent says the US and Israel were behind the assassination.
Former CIA case officer and US Army intelligence officer , Philip Giraldi, says the anti-Iran terrorist group Mojahedeen e-Khalgh Organization conducted Majid Shahriari’s assassination. According to Giraldi, killing Shahriari and three other physicists were part of attempts by Tel Aviv and Washington to interfere and damage Iran’s peaceful nuclear research program. On November 28, 2010, Shahriari was assassinated in Tehran. He was the most prominent Iranian scientist killed between 2010 and 2012. The US and Israel are also believed to be the creators of the Stuxnet cyber weapon that targeted Iran’s nuclear sites in 2011.
Scott Rickard
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