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2019-02-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Mossad pulled its agent out of Iran, MI6 smuggled him to UK on dinghy – report
[IsraelTimes] Sunday Express says nuclear scientist with knowledge of program in wake of 2015 deal was eventually transferred to US.

Israel’s Mossad spy agency pulled a nuclear scientist out of Iran and helped get him to Britannia in a joint operation with the UK’s MI6 and the American CIA, the British Sunday Express newspaper reported.

The technician was a long-time Israeli agent who was said to have played a part in the 2012 liquidation of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, an Iranian nuclear scientist and director of Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility, who was blown up by a bomb attached to his car in Tehran, sources told the weekly.

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 "We were reassured during our interview Iran seems to be sticking by the terms of the JCPOA," the source was quoted as saying. "This is good news."

Close enough, right?
Posted by Raj 2019-02-11 00:13||   2019-02-11 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Close enough, right?

For government work, Raj.
Posted by AlanC 2019-02-11 08:29||   2019-02-11 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Is this the best the CIA can do? Or the Mossad? One expects this sort of thing from MI6, but the escape plan seems entirely Mickey Mouse.
Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-02-11 08:40||   2019-02-11 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 The details appear a bit sketchy. I'll wait for the book.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-11 12:19||   2019-02-11 12:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Look a squirrel...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-02-11 13:08||   2019-02-11 13:08|| Front Page Top

#6 An emergency call to a tailor,
A decent champagne in a bailer,
A landing at Lydd
By ten Persians, a kid,
And one satisfied, secretive sailor.
Posted by Spaique Lumplump1296 2019-02-11 15:48||   2019-02-11 15:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Or should that be nine Persians? Whatever. Also, ick. Cue oriental Bond theme.
Posted by Phick Henbane3073 2019-02-11 15:52||   2019-02-11 15:52|| Front Page Top

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