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| Iran urges UN to condemn Tehran hit |
| 2010-12-11 |
| [Iran Press TV] Iran's permanent ambassador to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Mohammad Khazaei has protested to the world body over the liquidation of an Iranian scientist last month. Majid Shahriari was killed in a bombing attack in early hours of November 29 in the capital Tehran. Another academic Fereydoun Abbasi was also targeted in a similar terrorist attack, but managed to survive the bombing with injuries. Khazaei wrote a letter to UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon and heads of the body's General Assembly and the Security Council on Friday, condemning the "inhumane and criminal" murder of Shahriari. "This is not the first time that scientists specializing in the fields pertaining to our country's peaceful nuclear program are attacked, also last [Iranian calendar] year, another Iranian scientist Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, [was assassinated]," Khazaei wrote. The Iranian diplomat was referring to another deadly bombing on January 12, 2010 that left the Iranian university professor dead in front of his house in the capital. "The Islamic Theocratic Republicexpects this organization (the UN) to condemn such acts of terror in line with its obligations and take efficient steps to eradicate terrorism in all its forms," the letter urged. Khazaei said Israeli elements criminal masterminded and executed the attacks in order to derail Iran's peaceful nuclear activities. "But these acts and diplomatic and economic pressure cannot dissuade the Medes and the Persians from securing and defending its nuclear rights," the letter further read. "The Islamic Theocratic Republicof Iran will never compromise on its inalienable rights to peaceful nuclear activity," Khazaei emphasized. The Iranian envoy finally called on the UN chief to publish the letter as a Security Council and General Assembly document. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 ZHL: Seriously? A thread jump to be sarcastic is a day late and a dollar short. At least put it in a Korea thread. BTW, if you'd like to see such gun emplacements, they still have them, if not the guns, right next to the Golden Gate bridge. "I find your lack of faith disturbing." - L.D. Vader |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-12-11 14:54 |
| #5 are intramural. Are the various teams identified as shirts and skins, or do they wear different coloured pinnies? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-12-11 14:52 |
| #4 I still wouldn't discount the theory that the killings/attempted killings are intramural. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-12-11 11:03 |
| #3 Ah, so they do spell it as 'armour' in |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-12-11 10:59 |
| #2 Well frankly, all the experts have been laid off. The cash was needed to build 16'' hidden naval guns in Korean warehouses. It's a tricky undertaking in the best of times, during times of high tension we can only hope that the SOK can borrow, buy or steal the knowledge necessary (from Japan?) to build-up a large naval gun. Perhaps there will be breakthroughs allowing them to be built up in less than a year. We'll see. The turret/warehouses should not be difficult, altho the supply of high quality armoured plate is not what it was. However, perhaps the lack of armour could be compensated somewhat by serious angles and perhaps could use the old disappearing gun trick or even go more out of the box with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite_gun with enough steam and cash anything is possible. |
| Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover 2010-12-11 10:47 |
| #1 I like to point out now and then that the unstated purpose for the very existence of the fictional character James Bond was to kill people who messed around with nuclear weapons or who tried to start nuclear hostilities. From World War II through the 1970s, it was *assumed* that the CIA had a covert assassinations branch for just this purpose. However, after the highly successful Phoenix Program in Vietnam, all mention of such things died out. "Between 1968 and 1972, Phoenix "neutralized" 81,740 people suspected of NLF membership, of whom 26,369 were killed. This was a large proportion of the NLF and, between 1969 and 1971, the program was quite successful in destroying NLF infrastructure in many important areas." Importantly, this use was for ordinary unconventional war purposes, so was "far down the pyramid" from any top tier assassination activities. Today, as well, with the enormous amount of SOCOM operations, covert operations on a hitherto unprecedented scale for the WoT, you would think that the cream of the crop of anti-nuclear proliferation assassins would be numerous and amazingly deadly, and very active in taking out anyone and everyone in the world involved with illegitimate nuclear activities. So the questions need to be raised: Why is Pakistan's Kahn and all of his buddies still alive? Why has Iran been allowed to build a nuclear weapons program from scratch? How is North Korea done so as well? Even Russian and Chinese technical assistants to these schemes should be lying dead in piles. Why aren't they? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-12-11 09:28 |
