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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: Iranian media: Iran suspects Israel, U.S. behind scientist's killing Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the nuclear scientist killed in a bombing Tuesday was assassinated and the act "revealed signs of the involvement of the Zionist regime, the U.S. and their allies in Iran," state media reported. Strongly condemning the killing of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said the participation of Israeli and American agents "runs counter to international regulations," Press TV reported. However, a senior U.S. administration official said charges that the United States was behind the killing are "absurd." Mehman-Parast said such actions would not affect Iran's nuclear program, emphasizing such "terrorist moves and apparent omission of Iranian nuclearscientists will definitely cause no obstacle in the way of the country's scientific and technological development. Rather they will speed up it." Superintendent of Tehran's Criminal Court Fakhreddin Jafarzade told Fars News Agency that initial investigations indicate the attack was carried out at 7:58 a.m. local time, that the bomb had been planted on a motorcycle outside Ali-Mohammadi's home in Tehran's northern neighborhood of Qeytariyeh, and that it caused instant death. "Investigations show that the bomb was triggered by a close-range remote control device," Jafarzade said. Not long after the killing, Iranian media were reporting a claim of responsibility from the Royal Association of Iran, which Press TV characterized as an "obscure monarchist group that seeks to reestablish the Pahlavi reign in Iran," a reference to the Shah of Iran's regime which was toppled in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. During the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to become Iran's supreme leader and the country was renamed the Islamic Republic of Iran. Press TV said the Royal Association of Iran is headed by Foroud Fouladvand, and is responsible for a deadly bombing in the southern city of Shiraz in April 2008 that killed 13 people and wounded hundreds more. Fars reported that "members of this association had infiltrated into the country and had been active in the post-election riots of last June and played a part in setting public property on fire and inciting people to riot. "It had been established during trials (of some of the members of this association) that they were in charge of showing people how to make Molotov cocktails and setting public places on fire." Tehran's Prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi said Ali-Mohammadi taught neutron nuclear physics at Tehran University, Press TV reported, and the network said Ali-Mohammadi was a staunch supporter of the Islamic Revolution. Head of the Science Complex of the University of Tehran Ali Moqari told Mehr News Agency Tuesday that Ali-Mohammadi "was a prominent international figure, but had not been involved in any political activities." He said the professor was prominent in his field and had written books. According to Fars, the Royal Association's statement said Ali-Mohammadi played "an active role during the recent disturbances in Tehran, dresses as a plainclothesman," a common reference to police and others working with security forces to quell riots. "We declare with pride that we are Mohareb (those who wage war against God), yes, we are Mohareb," the association said, according to Fars. Tehran University professor Mohammad Marandi, quoted by Press TV, reported that Ali-Mohammadi's colleagues believe "he was assassinated by terrorist organizations probably supported by the United States and has connections with the Americans and the Israelis under different names." There has been talk among Marandi's colleagues and a news report that a group called the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran was behind the attack. But that group, an Iranian dissident group based in Iraq, has denied the allegation. Grass-roots outrage has swept Iran over the disputed presidential elections in June, when incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a second term. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to demonstrate against the official result, and that prompted a forceful and sometimes deadly government crackdown.
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Did Mossad ever even admit to murdering that Canadian, Gerald Somebody, who was building Saddam's supercannon?
I remember that! That thing was cool.
It's not socialism if it's the white man's money
Far more interesting than the rail-mounted Nazi guns. But not as cool as our own atomic artillery. Here's our first nuke shell along with some gratuitous weapons effects from other bomb tests. I always like how the nuke's heat burns the paint off the vehicles before the blast wave destroys them.
Gerald Bull was more probably killed by Iranian-hired assassins. He was building a super cannon to launch projectiles into Iran as part of the war then going between Iran and Iraq. Once built, his super-cannon would be pointing only at Iran. A super-cannon pointed at Israel would (1) have required entirely new construction at a different place in a difference direction, starting from scratch and (2) would not have been powerful enough to reach Israel, so it would never be built. The Israelis were mostly delighted to see Iraq and Iran killing each other instead of either of them killing Israelis. As for this physicist killed yesterday, it appears that he had nothing to do with the nuclear weapons project and his death has no effect on that project. What is more likely is that he was killed by one side or the other in the ongoing political protests among Iranians inside Iran.
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