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2021-02-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran: Military member was involved in murder of nuke scientist blamed on Israel
Not magically scientific Israeli assassins with an entire unit of Israeli distraction dancing girls? Truly, I am shocked.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian intelligence minister says ’first preparations’ in killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh were carried out by member of armed services.

A member of the armed forces is suspected of involvement in last November’s liquidation near Tehran of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the country’s intelligence minister said Monday.

"The person who carried out the first preparations for the liquidation was a member of the armed forces," Mahmoud Alavi said in an interview with state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, without elaborating.

He said it was not possible for the intelligence ministry "to keep watch over the armed forces."

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was traveling on a highway outside the capital accompanied by a security detail on November 27 when he came under machinegun fire.

Israel and the US say Fakhrizadeh headed Iran’s rogue nuclear weapons program. According to Iranian authorities, Fakhrizadeh was a deputy defense minister and carried out work on "nuclear defense."
But General Fakhrizadeh, PhD (he was multi-talented, clearly) intended it to be a very actively nuclear defense. Kinetic, even.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said a satellite-controlled gun with "artificial intelligence" was used in the attack, which Tehran blamed on Israel.

State TV’s English-language Press TV reported a weapon recovered from the scene of the attack bore "the logo and specifications of the Israeli military industry." There were no images published of the alleged weapon in the report, which was attributed to "informed sources."
Understandable, if it was an entirely native Iranian kill team, which probably used Iranian military weapons.
Israel did not react to the accusation. Unveiling a trove of material brought out of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
by the Mossad on the regime’s nuclear weapons program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in 2018 that Fakhrizadeh was overseeing Iran’s bid for the bomb.

The killing came after months of mysterious explosions in Iran including a blast and fire that crippled an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, which is widely believed to have been an act of sabotage allegedly carried out by Israel.
Not there’s any proof of that, or the Iranians would have shouted it to the skies.
Israel has long been suspected of carrying out a series of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists nearly a decade ago in a bid to curtail Iran’s nuclear program.

After the liquidation of Fakhrizadeh, Iranian politicians approved a bill requiring Iran to resume uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity, as it had been doing before the nuclear deal, and to stock 120 kilograms (265 pounds) of uranium each year. The legislation had already been in the pipeline, but it was advanced after Fakhrizadeh was killed.

Last month, Tehran announced it was beginning to enrich uranium up to 20 percent — far beyond the 3.5% permitted under the nuclear deal, and a relatively small technical step away from the 90% needed for a nuclear weapon. Iran also said it was beginning research into uranium metal, a material that technically has civilian uses, but is seen as another likely step toward a nuclear bomb.
One shudders to think how advanced Iran’s program would have been by now, had not all those scientists died and all those locations blown up and/or burnt down.
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
nuclear inspectors found traces of radioactive material at Iranian nuclear sites that could indicate work on nuclear weapons.

US President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
said Sunday that his administration will not agree to lift sanctions on Iran before it halts its uranium enrichment program, adding that the Islamic Theocratic Republic will have to first resume compliance with the nuclear deal.

Biden’s comments drew a line in the sand in the US’s standoff with Iran, whose Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
said that Washington must lift all sanctions before Tehran reverses any nuclear production steps.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that Iran was currently months away from being able to produce enough material to build a nuclear weapon. And, he said, that timeframe could be reduced to "a matter of weeks" if Tehran further violates restrictions it agreed to under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-02-10 02:16|| || Front Page|| [19 views ]  Top
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