Is Israel Assassinating Iranian Nuclear Scientists?

Another one bites the dust.

Yesterday, in Iran, another nuclear scientist was killed by a bomb with the same hallmark and tactic as about 3 other instances in the past couple years. A car bomb planted by an assailant on a motorcycle.

Do you think Israel is doing this? They seem to be issuing veiled threats that elude to actions such as this....and they definitely have a motive. America does to, but I just can't see us operating in such a way...



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/11/iran-scientist-death-israeli-warning?newsfeed=true

This seems to be leading to war to me. It also smacks of terrorist tactics and seems to make the moral high ground evaporate for Israel if there ever was one.

 

I would not be surprised if this was the case, or maybe a proxy organization is carrying out the actions. Yet, I am hesitant to deem moral judgement since I have confidence that in the past actions as this inferred may happened with any nation/kingdom/et al.

 

What makes you think it was Israel?

Could have just as easily been CIA or MI6.

 

This. LOL!

It would take a lot of work to make me to feel sympathy for scientists building nukes for a non-democratic government.

 

It's possible these scientists are not supporting the regime's goal to achieve weapons grade Uranium enrichment...and these were inside jobs...
or some type of foreign operative.

I don't know...
They are definitely hits of some sort, and I believe this is all a prelude to an eventual airstrike against the facilities.

Better get used to the idea...
there will be a war on some level.

 

I don't put anything past Mossad. talk about some evil mofos. they're it.

 

it's either Israel or the USA that's behind it, I can't see any other country having both the capability and need to do this....it only serves to make the Iranians more hostile and motivated to make nuclear weapons...

here's one of Israels earlier victims a Canadian engineer Gerald Bull http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/bull.htm

 

I can see us assassinating terrorists and we do.

Assassinating non-hostile, non-militant people for what they know is a different area. This is what the Soviets used to do.....It just crosses a different line that I just don't think we're willing to cross......or be so careless in the way we do it.

 

Or it could be not everyone in Iran is buying the states "peaceful nuke program" line and understand where the current regime is leading their country.

 

You can't see us operating this way??? Does fast and furious ring a bell???

 

Chicago thug politics...the end justifies the means.

 

That was a sting operation, not an assassination campaign.

No comparison.

 

The bomb itself was reported to be sophisticated.

I wouldn't expect homegrown dissidents to be as resourced or as discreet. Perhaps if there were monied interests in Iran that had a motive to do this.....but I don't see that......Monied interests in Iran are likely to be supportive of the government they've thrived under.

 

People were murdered. Dead is dead.

 

They were not assassinated. We lost track of guns that were eventually used by drug dealers in murders that would have happened either with those guns or guns easily acquired elsewhere. We didn't murder our own agents. Give it up. That was a silly comparison to the topic in the OP.

 

Perhaps.

Whoever is doing it, they're using the Iranian regime's own method of operating in a manner that affords them plausible deniability. I hope they're enjoying the taste of their own medicine...

 

why ? Do they explode more regularly than democratic nukes ? Do they kill more people ?

 

As opposed to Reagan/Bush politics in latin America ?

 

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a splinter faction of the MEK or some other Iranian opposition group was behind this. Tehran doesn't have many fans amongst the Kurds and other oppressed ethnic groups, either...

 

Sadly, nations have been doing this pretty much forever, and the US is no exception. Our history since WW2 includes equally immoral incidents, all done in order to protect and promote our vital interests.

 

Any examples where the U.S. has historically done this or is presumed to have done this? (ie. assasinated non-military, non-political figures)

 

an airstrike is counter productive and unless they're nuclear likely to be ineffective...if Iran is only pursuing peaceful nuclear applications an attack will immediately change their their focus to one of weapons...and before anyone claims they definitively know Iran is building weapons let's recall all the definitive claims that Iraq had WMD's and the pyramid of lies and fabrications that was built on...having the capability to build weapons is not evidence of intent...

and then there is the related issue of the economy, the US economy is just now beginning to recover from the disaster of the GWB years, is any President willing to risk the closure of the Persian gulf and stop the domestic economic recovery?

 

okay that's a real head scratcher...killing non-involved civilians is called murder, genocide and the US has done that as well...so if killing innocent civilians is fair game and assassinating military and political figures is fair , why wouldn't those in between suddenly not be viable targets?

 

off topic, does not relate to the OP...LOL

 

Could be. Or it could be those rascally Sunnis in SA or Iraq. It could be the CIA or MI6 knowing that Israel was the obvious answer. But it was probably Obama and his Democrat thugs playing gangland politics again.