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Mossad pulled its agent out of Iran, MI6 smuggled him to UK on dinghy – report

2019-02-11

[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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Iraq

Barzani set up Mossad den against Iran in Iraqi Kurdistan: Report

2012-06-26

[Iran Press TV] A report says the "autonomous Kurdistan region" in northern Iraq, run by Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , has turned into a safe haven for Mossad spies to conduct their terrorist operations against Iranian nuclear scientists. The Israeli intelligence service "has apparently even set up a military base in this area and is freely operating there," fardanews.com reported Sunday. The Islamic Theocratic Republic officials have in the past made reference to the fact that the terror operations against Iranians are being directed from neighboring territories. "The [Israeli] occupier regime of al-Quds (Jerusalem) is exploiting the soil of a region abutting our land and even has a terrorist training base and military site there," Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said on June 17. Regional media had previously reported that Mansour Barzani, Massoud's son, had received two Tel Aviv officials, the Israeli chief of special operations and the coordinator for Israeli-Kurdish relations, in the Kurdistan region. During their one-and-a-half-hour meeting, the two sides reportedly explored all avenues for increasing bilateral military relations and the ensuing trade with Israel. On June 21, Moslehi said the architect of the Iranian nuclear scientists' liquidations had been identified and apprehended, adding that the arrest had dealt a heavy blow to Western intelligence services. A week earlier, Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced the capture of the main elements behind the liquidation of two Iranian nuclear scientists - Majid Shahriari and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan - and Reza Qashqaei, the driver of the latter scientist. Ahmadi Roshan and his driver were assassinated in January 2012 after an unknown motorcyclist attached a magnet bomb to his car in Tehran. Professor Shahriari and Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi were targeted by terrorist attacks on November 29, 2010; Shahriari was killed immediately and Dr. Abbasi, the current head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, sustained injuries.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran nabs 20 involved in nuclear scientists' assassinations

2012-06-18

[Iran Press TV] Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi says at least 20 people, involved in the liquidation of Iranian nuclear scientists, have been identified and cooled for a few years. Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Moslehi told news hounds on Sunday that the arrests were made following the identification of two terrorist groups and through multiple sting operations across the country, IRNA reported. He added that more information about the places where the suspects had been tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! , will be released in the future. On June 14, Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced the capture of the main elements behind the murder of Iranian nuclear experts. "The key perpetrators of the liquidations of Majid Shahriari, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan (two of the slain nuclear scientists), and Reza Qashqaei (the driver) were identified and, in a series of swift and authoritative operations, were cooled for a few years Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and transferred to detention facilities," the ministry announced in a statement on the same day. The statement made mention of Iran's extensive intelligence operations following the liquidation of the first Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010 and pointed out that investigations had led to the identification of a number of Israeli intelligence officers and their mercenaries. Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was targeted on January 11 when an unknown motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to his car near a college building in Tehran. He was immediately killed and his driver, who had sustained injuries, died a few hours later in hospital. The deadly incident happened after some US presidential hopefuls in November 2011 openly called for conducting covert operations against Iran to stop its nuclear energy program. The measures they advised included the liquidation of Iranian nuclear scientists and carrying out acts of sabotage against the country's nuclear facilities. Dariush Rezaeinejad and Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, another Iranian nuclear scientist, are also among the victims of acts of terror. On July 23, 2011, unidentified gunnies killed Rezaeinejad outside his house in Tehran. Terrorist attacks targeted Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi, the current director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, on November 29, 2010. Shahriari was killed immediately, but Abbasi sustained injuries. Iran condemns Washington and Tel Aviv for the strings of deadly attacks mounted against its nuclear experts.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Evil Zionist spies finding refuge in Azerbaijan?

2012-04-16

Iran has accused Azerbaijan of sheltering several Mossad agents who had escaped from Iran after assassinating an Iranian nuclear scientist. Iranian officials had earlier warned Azerbaijan not to shelter the Zionist regime's terrorist agents whose mission is carrying out acts of sabotage and espionage against Iran. The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Azeri Ambassador to Tehran Javanshir Akhundov to protest at Baku for sheltering several Mossad-trained terrorists who had assassinated the Iranian scientists. In January and in the fifth attack of its kind in two years, a magnetic bomb was attached to the car of 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in the capital, Tehran. His driver was also killed in the terrorist attack. Moral of the story: don't be a driver for an Iranian nuclear scientist... The blast took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010. Boy howdy, those Ruritanians have been a busy bunch... The assassination method used in the January bombing was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani - who is now the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization - and his colleague Majid Shahriari. While Abbasi Davani survived the attack, Shahriari was martyred. As the famous American philosopher Wednesday Addams once said: "wait"... Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated through the same method on 23 July 2011. Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi underscored that the US, Israeli and British spy agencies were involved in the terrorist attacks against the Iranian scientists. Easy to blame the Zionists, the Americans and Limeys for this, but it could just as easily be factions within the Mad Mullahs™. I think they all need to be interrogated. Do a mole hunt... The London Times reported in February that Israel is using Azerbaijan, a small Eurasian country which shares a border with Iran, as a base to spy on the Tehran government. The newspaper cited the testimony of an anonymous Mossad agent referred to only as Shimon. "This is ground zero for intelligence work," Shimon told the Times. "Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran. This (Azerbaijan) is a wonderfully porous country." That's a great quote: so good someone at FARS likely wrote it... According to Shimon the Azerbaijan-Iran border, just a few hours south of the capital Baku, is prime territory for the Israeli intelligence service to gather information on Tehran's activities. "There is a great deal of information there from people who regularly and freely travel across the borders. It is unregulated - almost," said Shimon. Azerbaijan is a major energy producer and exports oil to Israel and imports weapons and military hardware in return from Israel.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran arrests Israel spies net

2012-04-11

Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Tuesday that a group of spies who work for Israel have been detained, Mehr News agency reported. "Months after assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, Iranian intelligence forces could unveil a spying net whose main headquarters place in a regional country and was work for Israel, was detained" the ministry said. Ahmadi-Roshan, an academic who also worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and his driver were killed during a bomb installed on his car in January 2012. Iranian Intelligence Ministry didn't give further information about the detained spies.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian Scientist 'Sought Israel's Annihilation,' Says Widow

2012-02-24

Semi-official Iranian news agency interviews widow of Mostafa Roshan -- leaving no doubt as to nuclear program's goal. The wife of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated in Tehran in January, said Tuesday that her husband "sought the annihilation of the Zionist regime wholeheartedly," according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency. "Mostafa's ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel," the agency quoted Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani as saying Tuesday. Bolouri Kashani also underlined that her spouse "loved any resistance figure in his life who was willing to fight the Zionist regime and supported the rights of the oppressed Paleostinian nation." The report belies attempts by Iran to claim that its nuclear program is not military in nature. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan is described as "a chemistry professor and a deputy director of commerce at Natanz uranium enrichment facility." Fars says he was killed by Mossad agents, who used a method of attack similar to that used against Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi in January 2010, as well as scientists Fereidoun Abbassi Davani and Majid Shahriari. Abbasi Davani survived the attack, but Shahriari died. Yet another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was assassinated by the same method in July of 2011.  And then there's this, from the Washington Post: Formerly secret telexes offer window into Iran's nuclear deceit

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US-made bomb killed Iran expert: Report

2012-02-07

[Iran Press TV] The United States provided an anti-Iran terrorist group with the bomb used to assassinate Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan last month, a report has revealed. Two bombs were handed over to the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in the Iraqi city of Arbil by the Americans, the Resalat daily reported on Monday. The first bomb killed Ahmadi Roshan, but the second one was discovered by intelligence and security personnel around Resalat Square in the capital Tehran, the report said. On January 11, Ahmadi Roshan was killed after a motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to his car in Tehran. Ahmadi Roshan was a chemical engineer and served as the deputy director of marketing at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. The slain scientist was not the first Iranian nuclear expert targeted by a terrorist attack. In November 2010, Majid Shahriari, was killed in a terrorist attack and Fereydoun Abbasi, the current head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, sustained injuries in another attack. Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, a scholar at Tehran University, was also assassinated by a booby-trapped cycle of violence in the Iranian capital in January 2010. The US and its allies have resorted to various terrorist tactics to stop Iran's peaceful nuclear program, which is under full observation of the inspectors of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran makes arrests in rub out of nuke scientist

2012-01-16

An Iranian news website is reporting several suspects have been arrested over last week's killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist. Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said the suspects are being interrogated, and the investigation is continuing. How long before the arrested schmuck is accused of being a Zionist spy? Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, an official in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, was killed in an explosion Wednesday after attackers attached a bomb to his car in Tehran.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran: 'IAEA inspectors abetted terrorists'

2012-01-15

[Iran Press TV] Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman says confidential information on the country's nuclear experts has been leaked to the beturbanned goons by the so-called inspectors of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). "Certain individuals who came to Iran under the pretext of inspecting the country's nuclear facilities have identified Iranian scientists and given their names to the terrorist groups," Ramin Mehmanparast said on Friday. The Iranian official highlighted that Tehran would pursue the case in relevant international bodies. The comments came in the wake of the liquidation of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan on January 11 when an unknown motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to his car near a college of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran. He was killed immediately and his driver, who sustained injuries, died a few hours later in hospital. Ahmadi Roshan was a Sharif University of Technology chemical engineering graduate and served as the deputy director of marketing at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. Mehmanparast also said the liquidation is the last-ditch effort of the enemies to stop Iran's scientific advancements, which is by no means untenable. He went on to say that when "those who claim to champion human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and combat terrorism" commit such crimes, "they bring shame upon themselves." The terrorist attack happened as some of the US presidential hopefuls openly called in November 2011for conducting covert operations ranging from assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists to launching a military strike on Iran as well as sabotaging Tehran's nuclear program. The liquidation calls have not been hollow threats as a number of Iranian scientists have been killed in cold blood over the past few years. Professor Majid Shahriari and Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi are among the victims of these acts of terror. On November 29, 2010, Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi were targeted by terrorist attacks. Shahriari was killed immediately but Abbasi, the current director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, sustained injuries. Iran's Foreign Ministry blasted on Friday the US and UK governments for their obvious roles in assassinating the Iranian scientist in two strongly-worded letters of protest to the two countries. "The Islamic Theocratic Republic reserves the right to follow up on the issue accordingly," Iran's Foreign Ministry said. According to reports, Ahmadi Roshan had recently met ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, a fact which indicates that the IAEA has leaked information about Iran's nuclear facilities and scientists.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran mulls 'punishing' US, Israel, UK for killing

2012-01-14

IRAN is looking at "punishing" those behind the assassination of one of its nuclear scientists, a senior military official said, pointing the finger at the United States, Israel and Britain. The Mad Mullahs™ do seem to be taking this a tad hard... "We consider committing a terrorist act of killing a scientist to be a threat to the nation... We are looking at punishing those who were behind the scenes of the martyrdom (assassination) of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan," the deputy chief of Iran's joint armed forces, Masoud Jazayeri, was quoted as saying by several media. He then made faces and rolled his eyes... Iran's response will be "tormenting" for those responsible, he said, adding: "The enemies of the Iranian nation, such as the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime, should be made accountable for their actions." Now pound your tiny fists on the podium in rage... Ahmadi Roshan, a 32-year-old deputy director of Iran's main uranium enrichment plant, was killed along with his driver on Wednesday when assassins on a motorbike fixed a magnetic bomb to his car. He was the third nuclear scientist to have been murdered in similar circumstances in Tehran over the past two years. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Thursday that the "abominable" killing was committed "with the planning or support of the intelligence services of the CIA and Mossad" of the United States and Israel.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Anti-US Chants as Slain Iran Nuclear Expert Buried

2012-01-14

[ABC News] Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America™" on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a kaboom this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran's nuclear program. The liquidation of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan has raised calls in Iran for retaliation against the U.S. and Israel, and an independent news website Friday said Iran is preparing a covert counteroffensive against the West. Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, was killed in a brazen daylight liquidation when two assailants on a cycle of violence attached a magnetic bomb to his car Wednesday in Tehran. The killing bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the Iranian nuclear program. State TV showed thousands of people carrying Roshan's coffin through central Tehran before it was taken to a north cemetery for burial. As it marched, the crowd chanted "death to terrorists." Loud chanting provides healthy exercise to the heart and lungs, though sadly not the brain.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Khamenei Says CIA, Mossad behind Scientist's Killing

2012-01-13

[An Nahar] The CIA and Mossad were behind the "abominable" liquidation of a nuclear scientist in Tehran this week, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Thursday in a message of condolence to the man's family. "This cowardly murder, perpetrated by those who do not dare claim their abominable crime by accepting the responsibility, was committed like the other crimes with the planning or support of the intelligence services of the CIA and Mossad," Khamenei said in the message posted on his website. His accusation against the U.S. and Israeli espionage services was the strongest yet by Iran's regime following Wednesday's brazen killing of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a deputy director of its main uranium enrichment plant. Khamenei said Iran's controversial nuclear program "does not depend on any one person" and "we are going to continue with determination and energy on this path."

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