Mossad terrorists keep killing civilians.

[molly bloom]

That's small governement for ya

Mr di Rupo hoping to get to grips with big government...

[dannubis]

Oewhat iez thaaat ?

Unfortunately that is the only funny thing about this taxation governement.

[molly bloom]

Oewhat iez thaaat ?

I thought at first maybe Belgium had elected a Mexican or Peruvian Prime Minister in sheer frustration. Then I find out he's also gay and given to sporting bowties !

This Magritte Moment was brought to you by a fed up Belgian electorate (I loved all the protests- people dressed as frites, et cetera. If only British politics were as humorous -and no, I don't find Boris 'Posh Tw@t' Johnson remotely funny).

[The Mad Monk]

Iranian Scientist's Wife Says Husband Sought Annihilation of Israel
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Feb 22 2012, 10:51 AM ET 59

I'm not sure I understand this story out of Iran. The wife of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, the scientist was assassinated in Tehran last month, says her husband's "ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel." Why would someone involved in Iran's peaceful nuclear program have as a goal the murder of six million Jews? Shouldn't he have sought another line of work, perhaps with Hezbollah, that would have set him on track to reach this goal? How could he possibly achieve his dream as an employee of such a peaceful nuclear program as Iran's?

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"Mostafa's ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel," Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani told FNA on Tuesday.

Bolouri Kashani also underlined that her spouse loved any resistance figure in his life who was willing to fight the Zionist regime and supported the rights of the oppressed Palestinian nation.

Iran's 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, a chemistry professor and a deputy director of commerce at Natanz uranium enrichment facility, was assassinated during the morning rush-hour in the capital early January. His driver was also killed in the terrorist attack.

Roshan was killed on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.

The method used for Roshan's assassination was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani - who is now the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization - and his colleague Majid Shahriari. Abbasi Davani survived the attack, while Shahriari was martyred.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/iranian-scientists-wife-says-husband-sought-annihilation-of-israel/253368/

I was not aware that this had happened on an anniversary of a previous assassination. Also, "Deputy Director of Commerce" does not sound like that critical a function.

Payvand Iran News ...

02/17/12

Iran Developing Cult Of Personality Around Slain Nuclear Scientists
By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL

On January 11, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan became the fourth Iranian nuclear scientist to be assassinated in two years -- the latest victim of an apparent covert war aimed at slowing Iran's nuclear program. Roshan and the other dead scientists are very much alive, however, to the Iranian regime, which has begun evoking their tragic fate in state-orchestrated events.


Memorial for Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan at Tehran's Sharif University

During a ceremony on February 14 where President Mahmud Ahmadinejad announced the country's latest nuclear technology advances, a framed photo of Roshan and his slain colleagues were shown prominently on state television.

Ahmadinejad sat the young daughter of Dariush Rezaeinejad, an electronics expert who was killed in Tehran in 2011, on his knees during the ceremony, which showed nuclear rods being inserted into Tehran's research reactor.

The teenage son of Majid Shahriari, another slain nuclear scientist, cut the ribbon.

At another ceremony, this one at the Natanz uranium-enrichment facility and linked via video to the one in Tehran, recent victim Roshan's father inaugurated the work of "a new generation" of centrifuges coming into operation .

That same day, the names of the websites of Iran's nuclear facilities were switched to the names of the country's "nuclear martyrs," Iranian news agencies reported.

The Natanz facility website is now named for Roshan, who worked there as a deputy director for commercial affairs.

Honoring 'Nuclear Martyrs'

Pictures and posters with a smiling Roshan were distributed at last week's state rallies to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. And some Iranians carried signs with Roshan's picture and the words, "I am also a nuclear scientist."

The semi-official Mehr news agency ran a photo of dozens of children holding masks to their faces with that slogan and Roshan's photo printed on them.

Earlier in the week, at an event attended by Iran's defense and education ministers, Roshan and Rezaeinejad were given honorary Ph.D.s.

Iran believes the nuclear scientists were targeted after information from the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was leaked.

When IAEA inspectors visited Iran last month to inspect the country's nuclear sites, a group of hardliners carrying pictures of Ahmadi Roshan were waiting at the airport.

Former Iranian diplomat Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri Abyaneh suggested that the UN inspectors go on a "pilgrimage" to the graves of the "nuclear martyrs."

All told, several events have been held in recent weeks that summoned memories of the assassinated scientists. Iran's chief nuclear negotiator even called them "a model" for scientists and academics throughout the Islamic world.

Building Public Support

The personality cult being developed around the dead men appears to be an attempt by the regime to gain public support ahead of the March 2 parliamentary elections and as the country faces unprecedented international pressure over its nuclear activities.

An Iran-based observer says that the authorities will do "anything" to boost voter turnout for the sensitive vote.

"It is of course good to remember the innocent scientists who were killed. But it's questionable why, ahead of the elections, their faces and names are everywhere," he says. "[The authorities] are seeking support among people who are suffering because of the rising prices."

He says the propaganda-heavy homage to the nuclear scientists is also part of Tehran's attempts to generate support for the nuclear program.

A Tehran-based Iranian journalist, however, says that most people aren't paying attention to the propaganda.

"The majority of people don't care about these issues and what [officials] say and do," he says. "They are trying to deal with their economic problems and watching [the popular satellite channel] Farsi1."


Copyright (c) 2012 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org

http://www.payvand.com/news/12/feb/1179.html

[MRT144]

Israel has no way of dealing with hydras.

[Dinner]

Second, what I read about Ahmawhatever (return of the Mahdi etc) makes me rather think he is one of the more insane types. Of course it is difficult to say whether he believes this whole stuff at the core or uses such rhetorics to generate domestic support, or takes the best of both worlds. Yes, I do know that there are already rifts in the Iranian leadership so there may be parts who are more moderate. But still, my impression is that these days Iran is the state which uses the most aggressive rhetorics towards other countries in its region and beyond, maybe except North Korea. What if those guys are serious?

To Godwin this thread, as if it hadn't already been Godwined multiple times already, in the 1930's everyone said Hitler didn't really mean what he was saying in Mein Kampf and that it was just rhetoric to win support but it turned out he really was serious. So I take your point about Ahmadinnerjacket possibly being serious as well.

[Dinner]

A lot of Christian leaders believe that spirits are real. George W. Bush does. That there is a real spiritual war between angels and demons is a major component of mainstream American christianity.

I believe everyone in America who wasn't a complete nutjob felt fear when George W Bush started saying he heard voices in his head telling him to do things like invade Iraq. Sorry, but hearing voices when people aren't there is not normal and surely a sign of a mental illness.

[MRT144]

I believe everyone in America who wasn't a complete nutjob felt fear when George W Bush started saying he heard voices in his head telling him to do things like invade Iraq. Sorry, but hearing voices when people aren't there is not normal and surely a sign of a mental illness.

As a non believer it's almost impossible to imagine hearing voices as anything but mental illness.

[Fake Boris]

As a non believer it's almost impossible to imagine hearing voices as anything but mental illness.

It's much more common than you think, but people don't talk about it (see: your post).

[MRT144]

It's much more common than you think, but people don't talk about it (see: your post).

I understand that people would keep mum about mental illness, but to attribute intrusive voices as god...

[The Mad Monk]

Friday, August 05, 2011
Assassination of Iranian Academics, a Convenience for All
In the last two years, since the fraudulent elections in 2009, four assassinations in Iran, have grabbed the headlines of the world media. Headlines which have been duplicated in a relentless copy/paste exercise and articles which are prime examples of lazy journalism and factual inaccuracies.



Spiegel’s article on the latest round of these assassinations, that of Dariush Rezaee Nejad, is what prompted me to write this blog post. Spiegel concludes that the assassination was the work of Mossad, based on a reported smile by Ehud Barak during the interview and claims made by an unnamed, unknown and un-identifed Israeli 'intelligence source'. Yet a mountain of facts and evidence surrounding these assassinations are completely ignored and unreported.


The first assassination of an Iranian academic where some kind of connection with the nuclear industry was assumed was that of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi or as one of these “accurate” news media outlets refers to: Mohammed Ali Masoudi !!

So lets examine who Ali-Mohammadi was and who would have benefitted most from his assassination. Ali-Mohammadi was in fact a Quantum field theorist and elementary particle physicist. His academic achievements included some 53 research articles and numerous translations of text books like the Modern Quantum Mechanics. He was NOT in any way related to the nuclear weapon or the nuclear power industry, nor was his name on any sanctions list. More importantly, he was an active supporter of the Green Movement. Ali Mohammadi actually actively encouraged and organised his students to take part in the post-‘election’ protests. He was one of the 240 university professors who publicly and openly expressed their support for Mir Hussein Moussavi, one of the main leaders of the Green Movement, now under house arrest with his wife.

Professor Ali Mohammadi was also a council member of International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East (SESAME). A regional experimental physics project which includes Israel as one of its members. It stretches the imagination to assume the Islamic Republic of Iran would include one of its key Nuclear Weapon/Power scientists, who could be a possible target for assassination by Western agencies, on this SESAME project, where he would regularly meet in conferences with colleagues from other countries, including Israel.

The manner of Ali Mohammadi’s assassination also does not suggest a clean professional hit. With the amount of explosives used to blow up his car, it was lucky that no other person close by was killed. His assassination which followed the assassination of Moussavi’s nephew, was a turning point in quashing the Green Movement in Iran.

Earlier this year, the regime paraded Farshid Jamali Fash on state TV, confessing to Ali Mohammadi’s murder and describing how he was trained by the Israelis. The Iranian regime claimed Jamali Fash was part of a 9 member team who were all arrested in connection with Ali-Mohammadi’s assassination. The TV confessions of Jamali Fash were full of contradictions and it later emerged that he was an ardent pro-Ahmadinejad devotee and a kick boxer member of the national team. I managed to talk to one of his former opponents in a tournament in Australia, who confirmed, Jamali Fash seemed to be very pro-regime. No more of those claimed to have been arrested by the Iranian intelligence minister were either named or paraded on TV. Almost 9 months after Jamali Fash’s TV appearance, there is still no news that he has been executed, as one would expect to have been the punishment of a crime of that calibre.

Next were two assassinations on November 29, 2010, which took place on the same day, that of Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbas Davani.

Majid Shahriari, again was a theoretical quantum physicist and not on any sanctions lists, although unlike Ali Mohammadi, he had no interest in politics and supported neither side during the post-election protests, but he too worked alongside other regional scientists on the SESAME project.

He was assassinated by two assailants on a motor bike in broad daylight and in middle of the heavy morning traffic on his way to work. The assailants attached an explosive to his car and drove off. Both assassins got away. Shahriari was killed as the result of the explosion and his wife was injured. Pictures of Shahriari’s car after the explosion show the driver’s side door completely blown off by the explosion.

There was no appeal made by the state for the public to come forward as witnesses and until now no one has been arrested or charged with his murder.

I have come across one eyewitness myself however. A former employee of the interior ministry, who saw the whole thing and told me it bore all the hall marks of an Iranian regime hit squad.

Fereydoon Abbas Davani, the other target for the “assassination” that day, was connected to the Nuclear program however. He is a revolutionary guard member and he is on the sanctions list and indeed he is now the Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation. Unlike Ali-Mohammadi and Shahriari, it would have been understandable for Western agencies or Mossad to plan his assassination, but he was not even hurt! Immediately after the “assassination” he spoke at a Baseej gathering.

Javanonline, affiliated to Iran’s Revolutionry Guards, quickly gave too much detail about the assassinations and even confidently reported a third explosion had taken place. The news was later denied and the page removed.

Footage of Abbassi Davani’s car shown afterwards, show a few bullet holes on the bonnet and windscreen and unlike Shahriari’s car, his car was not blown up. If these assassinations were the work of highly sophisticated Western/Israeli sent hit squads, how is it that a theoretical research physicist not on the sanctions list is eliminated so efficiently but the more obvious target who is clearly connected to the nuclear program and is on the sanctions list, is not even hurt.

It seems Fereydoon Abbassi Davani’s assassination was a fake and staged attempt to justify the Western/Mossad hit squad story to give it more credence.

Last in this list was the assassination of Dariush Rezaee Nejad in front of his wife and daughter outside their home. The couple had returned after having picked up their daughter from a kindergarden birthday party. The initial reports in the Iranian dailies were detailed reports with pictures of the wrong man, Dariush Rezaee and not Dariush Rezaei Nejad.

Dariush Rezaee is a nuclear physics scientist but he was not even in Iran on that day, instead the man who was killed in front of his family, was an MSc student, studying power electrics at Khajeh Nassir Tousi university. He even had a Facebook page and on his Facebook page, he had included the dissident Iranian singer, Shajarian as one of his favourites. It is unthinkable that an Iranian scientist connected with Iran’s nuclear program would have a facebook page which shared his friends and family and their photos.





Rezaee Nejad also lived at Bani Hashem street, a poor part of Tehran and an unlikely residential area for an elite Iranian scientist connected with the nuclear program who could have been the target of Western agencies.

ِA mistaken identity was the only way the proponent of a Mossad hit squad could explain their James Bond type theories at first but then they resorted to another **** and bull story، that Rezaei Nejad’s research was to do with a trigger mechanism used in nuclear weapons! If all else fails this trigger mechanism always comes to the rescue. Just about anything, product or research can be included under trigger mechanism by these lacklustre Spiegel type journalists who once thought the Hitler diaries were real.

As early as February 2005, I have seen reports of Iran not only having acquired the trigger mechanism
but having successfully tested it too. Six years after having successfully tested the trigger mechanism, it seems all depended on an MSc student to finish his final year project. Media journalists who do not even know how a nuclear weapon trigger works and did not until yesterday even know who Dariush Rezaee Nejad was, suddenly seem to have read his final year project for his MSc certification and concluded that he was a legitimate target for a Mossad hit squad.

One day we may know why these Iranian academics were assassinated but until then, these assassinations seem to be a matter of convenience for all parties. The Iranian regime can assassinate individuals and blame it on Mossad and others. Israelis on the other hand, after their latest operational gaffs, seem to gloat on rumours that suggest their military operations are as awesome as ever and Western media seem happy with being content about lack of detailed reporting and appetite by their readers for James Bond stories.

Meanwhile the dreams of a young couple who had left the small town of Abdanan in the Ilam province for a better life is shattered and a young innocent girl who had been enjoying a birthday party is scarred for the rest of her life after having seen her loving devoted father murdered in front of her eyes.

http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2011/08/assassination-of-iranian-academics.html

[Fake Boris]

I understand that people would keep mum about mental illness, but to attribute intrusive voices as god...

That's the point, most people are smart enough not to attribute them to God.

[notyoueither]

http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2011/08...academics.html

That's interesting.

[The Mad Monk]

I found it while searching for info on the anniverary assassination. That one only makes sense if you are trying to keep the assassinations in the public eye, something Israel has no reason to do, and Iran has every reason to do.

[Az]

So, how can we have a real discussion about this, really?

Nothing is what it seems....

http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html