By
CBS News
March 1, 2014, 6:23 PM
...Although Israel (click here) has never acknowledged it, the country's famed espionage agency - the Mossad - ran an assassination campaign for several years aimed at Iran's top nuclear scientists. The purpose was to slow the progress made by Iran, which Israel feels certain is aimed at developing nuclear weapons; and to deter trained and educated Iranians from joining their country's nuclear program.
At least five Iranian scientists were murdered, most of them by bombs planted on their cars as they drove to work in the morning. Remarkably, the Israeli assassins were never caught - obviously having long-established safe houses inside Iran - although several Iranians who may have helped the Mossad were arrested and executed.
In addition to strong signals from the Obama Administration that the U.S. did not want Israel to continue the assassinations, Mossad officials concluded that the campaign had gotten too dangerous. They did not want their best combatants - Israel's term for its most talented and experienced spies - captured and hanged....
Thursday Feb 9, 2012 3:16 AM
Mehdi Marizad
Fars via AP file
A
car that was bombed by two assailants on a motorcycle in Tehran on Jan.
11, killing Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahamdi Roshan, is
removed by a mobile crane. The photo was distributed by the
semi-official Iranian photo agency Fars.
By Richard Engel and Robert WindremNBC News
Updated: 11:14 a.m. ET -- Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists (click here) 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....
Ah, only if Bush and Cheney could rule the world Israel could, too.
Mehdi Hasan
On the morning of 11 January (click here) Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the deputy head of Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was in his car on his way to work when he was blown up by a magnetic bomb attached to his car door. He was 32 and married with a young son. He wasn't armed, or anywhere near a battlefield.
Since 2010, three other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in similar circumstances, including Darioush Rezaeinejad, a 35-year-old electronics expert shot dead outside his daughter's nursery in Tehran last July. But instead of outrage or condemnation, we have been treated to expressions of undisguised glee....
