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Iran Hangs Man for Killing Nuclear Scientist

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:14:05 CDT

Iran has hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist, state TV reported today. Majid Jamali Fashi, who had been accused of being an agent of the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, was hanged in Tehran this morning. Tehran University physics professor...

Ex-Mossad Chief Calls Attacking Iran 'Stupid'

Kevin Spak — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:25:05 CST

Attacking Iran would be a big mistake, because the regime is rational enough to deal with, according to former Mossad chief Meir Dagan. In an excerpt of an interview with 60 Minutes to air on Sunday and posted online today, the ex-Israeli intelligence head stands by an earlier quote that...

Israel, Iran Terrorists Are Killing Scientists: Officials

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:37:33 CST

As Iran has long claimed, Israel is indeed behind the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, providing financing, training, and weapons to the Iranian terrorist group that carries out the attacks, US officials confirm to NBC News . Five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed since 2007, reportedly by the People’s Mujahedin...

Car Bomb Kills Iranian Nuke Expert

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:26:00 CST

Yet another Iranian nuclear scientist has been murdered, this time after two assassins on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the 32-year-old chemistry expert's car. The death of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan comes almost exactly two years to the day since another nuclear professor was killed. Roshan, a professor and...

Mystery Blasts: Part of Covert Iran War?

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:54:36 CST

Explosions have crippled Iranian gas pipelines and military facilities . Car bombs and gunshots have killed Iranian nuclear physicists . A computer virus stopped centrifuges from enriching uranium. All part of a Western/Israeli shadow war against Iran? Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack denies it , but some analysts say the CIA, Mossad, European...

US Scientist Confesses to Attempted Espionage

Mark Russell — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:16:58 CDT

Nearly two years after getting busted for trying to sell US technology secrets to Israel , a top American scientist has confessed to attempted espionage, reports the BBC . Stewart Nozette, who had high security clearances for years with NASA, the National Space Council, and the Department of Energy, will likely serve...

Iran Claims Slain Man Student, Not Nuke Scientist

Mark Russell — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 07:46:34 CDT

This much we know: An Iranian man was shot and killed outside his home in Tehran yesterday, reports the BBC, in an attack that also injured his wife. State media initially reported that Darioush Rezaei, a physics professor linked to the country's nuclear program, was murdered, and blamed Israel's Mossad...

Israel Spy Chief: Iran Won't Have Nuke Til 2015

John Johnson — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:30:05 CST

Israel shouldn't rush to attack Iran because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still four years away from developing a nuclear weapon, says the newly retired spy chief of Mossad. He claims that certain "measures" have pushed back Tehran's timetable a few years, reports AP . He didn't say what those measures were exactly,...

Saudi Arabia Arrests Vulture ... as Israeli Spy

Kevin Spak — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:21:52 CST

Saudi Arabia has captured a dangerous Mossad spy—and it has feathers. The cunning agent in question is a griffon vulture that alighted in Saudi territory with a transmitter strapped around its leg reading, “Tel Aviv University.” Its cover story: researchers at the school tagged it to study its migration...