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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mossad agent sentenced to death: Tehran prosecutor
2017-10-25
[PRESSTV] Iran has sentenced to death an individual found guilty of cooperating with Israel's Mossad spy agency and providing information to it, Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Ja’afari Dolatabadi says.

He said on Tuesday that the spy passed intelligence to Mossad officers about the location and other details of 30 high-profile figures working on the country’s research, military and nuclear projects, including Iranian nuclear physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi and university professor Majid Shahriari, which led to their liquidation.

Professor Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at the University of Tehran, was killed by an explosive-laden cycle of violence in the Iranian capital on January 12, 2010. The bombing took place near the professor's home in northern Tehran.

The late professor lost his life when the booby-trapped motorbike was blown off with a remote-controlled device.

Also on November 29, 2010, gunnies detonated bombs attached to the vehicles of university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi. Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi and his wife survived the attack with minor injuries.

Ja’afari Dolatabadi also said the suspect had had several meetings with more than eight Mossad officers and provided them with "sensitive information" about Iran's military sites and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran in return for money and residency in Sweden.

In August 2016, Iran confirmed that it has executed a nuclear scientist convicted of leaking the country’s top secret information to the United States.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran issues writs of culpability for 18 persons regarding assassination of nuclear scientists
2013-03-18
Azerbaijan - Writs of culpability have been issued for 18 persons who are indicted to be involved in the assassination of three Iranian nuclear scientists, ISNA quoted Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying. Bills of indictment will be issued for the persons in the near future and they will be tried in the next year, he added.

Elementary-particle physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated in a bomb attack in Tehran on January 12, 2010. Physicist Majid Shahriari was killed in a bombing in Tehran on November 29, 2010 and professor Darioush Rezaiinejad was shot and killed by a gunman with an AK-47 in Tehran on July 23, 2011.
Operation Lemony Snickett has been a smashing success so far...
In January, Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said Iranian intelligence agents have foiled several assassination plots against a number of nuclear scientists. He refused to give additional information, saying that the details of the operations would be announced soon.
"I can say no more!"
The methods of the terrorist groups to hatch assassination plots have been discovered and neutralized through intelligence operations, Moslehi added.
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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
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
Iranian gets death sentence for scientist's murder
2011-08-29
TEHRAN: An Iranian accused of assassinating a scientist on behalf of Israel has been sentenced to death, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.

Majid Jamali-Fashi had pleaded guilty to murdering Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in January 2010, the first of several attacks on scientists which Iran said were the work of enemies that wished to stop it developing nuclear technology.
Majid didn't work for us. Our guy was someone named Mahmoud...
The prosecution said Jamali-Fashi had traveled to Israel to receive training from the Mossad intelligence agency, and had been paid $120,000 for the assassination.
They know that how...
IRNA quoted a judiciary spokesman as saying he had been condemned to death for "waging war against God" and being "corrupt on Earth," both capital offenses under Iran's strict form of Islamic law.

Although IRNA described Ali-Mohammadi as a nuclear scientist, a spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said in the days after his death that he had not played a role in the activities of the organization.
He was .. some other nuclear scientist...
An Iranian opposition website said at the time that Ali-Mohammadi was an opposition supporter who had backed moderate candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in the disputed June 2009 presidential election, suggesting there may be other possible motives for his murder.

Eleven months after the bomb attack that killed Ali-Mohammadi as he set off to work, two other scientists were targeted.

Majid Shahriyari, who authorities said had a role in one of Iran's biggest nuclear projects, was killed but Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani survived and has since been appointed head of the Iranian nuclear organization.
"Rats. Missed him, David."
"Try again, Avie. We only need to be lucky once."
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
One Fewer Iranian Nuclear Scientist
2011-07-23
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been shot dead outside his home in Tehran, Iranian media sources say.
Operation Lemony Snickett™ rolls on...
The Isna news agency named him as Daryoush Rezaei, 35, adding that his wife was wounded. His identity has not been officially confirmed.

In 2010, nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb in Tehran. Iran blamed that attack on Israeli secret service Mossad. Israel has long warned about Iran's nuclear programme.

Some reports said the latest attack involved assailants on a motorcycle, but this has not been confirmed.

Isna said that Mr Rezaei was an expert with links to the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran.

This week, Iran said it was installing newer and faster centrifuges at its nuclear plants, with the goal of speeding up its uranium enrichment process.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
DEBKA: Iran's confessed Israeli spy really an IRGC bully boy
2011-01-20
The young Iranian man who "admitted" on Iranian TV last Tuesday, Jan. 11 that he had acted for the Israeli Mossad in the murder of Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi is revealed in real life by debkafile's Iranian sources as a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' secret reserve death squad of brawny sportsmen used to cut down opponents of the regime and break up protest rallies.

debkafile's Iranian sources had uncovered the real Majid Jamali Fashi - a champion kick boxer, a professional terminator and an ardent fan of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As a sportsman, his face is familiar to people in Iran from the media and the Internet. Until late 2009, he represented his country in international kick-boxing contests.
Are any Rantburgers followers of kick-boxing, who could verify this claim? Here is the Iran PressTV video of the man confessing on-screen.
Iranian intelligence minister Heidar Moslehi must have realized that putting him on national TV as a Mossad spy to support his boast that Iranian agents had penetrated the Mossad networks he claimed were spread across the country would open more than one can of worms.

If Majid had really been recruited by Mossad, this would have been a feather in the cap of the Israeli spy service -- not Tehran. It would have told the television audience that Mossad's tentacles had not only reached into Iran's nuclear program but also the elite clandestine ranks of the Revolutionary Guards, the IRGC. So why make it the subject of a boast?

Majid Jamali Fash's real persona is disclosed here by our Iranian sources: He was born in Tehran in 1978 and after completing his military service with the IRGC, took up kick boxing while continuing to serve the Guards as a reservist. He and hundreds of his fellow champion sportsmen belong to a unit which is regularly called up for undercover work such as liquidating enemies of the regime and breaking the heads, arms and legs of regime opponents.

In the summer of 2009, the young sportsman was employed in the brutal break-up of the mass street rallies protesting the rigged election which gave Ahmadinejad his second term.

Tehran's practice of employing national sporting talent as IRGC hatchet men in "crowd control" has drawn angry protests from the international federations of Taekwondo, Judo, Karate, Kung fu and other martial arts.

Because of his fame, Iranian audiences found it hard to revise their view of Jamali-Fashi as a Mossad agent.

Many decided his performance was faked by Iranian intelligence. However, opposition circles did believe in his role as assassin of Prof. Mohammadi, though not in the service of Israel but his IRGC masters because the late professor supported the opposition's cause.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Iran to legally pursue terror cases'
2010-12-11
[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian politician says the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) will take up the case of the recent terror attacks against two Iranian scientists with the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society.

"The Human Rights Committee of Majlis will follow up the issue through the UN and the Human Rights Council," said Zohreh Elahian, Chairwoman of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, quoted by Fars news agency on Wednesday.

Elahian pointed out that Majlis will pursue the matter in line with efforts to defend the Iranian nation's nuclear rights.

Unidentified bully boyz attached explosives to the vehicles of Dr. Majid Shahriari and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi in different locations on November 29. Shahriari was killed immediately after the blast, but Abbasi and his wife beat feet the bombing with minor injuries.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Press TV earlier that Tehran is going to send a letter to UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon to protest the attacks and call on the UN chief to put the matter on his agenda.

He strongly condemned the inclusion of Abbasi's name as a "nuclear scientist" in the UN Security Council Resolution 1747 against Tehran.

The Islamic Theocratic Republic says the perpetrators behind the liquidation could be traced through those who put the scientist's name in the resolution and thus provided terrorist groups with a hit list.

Earlier in January, another Iranian nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was killed in a bomb attack which Tehran blamed on "mercenaries" hired by Israel and the United States.

Iran suspects foreign intelligence services of involvement in the liquidations.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran says US-funded cyber network group busted
2010-03-14
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran has busted what it says was a U.S.-funded cyber network group linked to an exiled opposition movement that collected data on its nuclear scientists, state media reported on Saturday.

Thirty members of the network with links to the outlawed People's Mujahedeen and monarchists have been arrested, Fars news agency said, quoting a statement from the Tehran prosecutor's office.

State-owned Press TV said Iranian authorities have asked Interpol to arrest two other prominent members of the cyber network group.

One of the two leaders whose arrest is sought by Iran is Ahmad Batebi, a prominent student activist who fled the Islamic republic in 2007 after serving nine years in prison, the English-language channel said.

He is reportedly in the United States and has regularly appeared on opposition television channels criticizing human rights violations in Iran.

Press TV named the other wanted leader only as Rafie and also reported that the cyber network group gave a "wrong death toll" on the post-election violence in Iran.

Dozens of people were killed when supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rivals clashed with security forces following the hardliner's disputed re-election last June.

U.S. links
" The funds given to the cyber network group were allocated by the administration of George W. Bush to launch a cyber war against Iran "
Fars news agency

Fars said that according to the prosecutor's office the "busted cyber network group was funded by the United States and comprised of members from the exiled People's Mujahedeen and monarchists."

The prosecution said the main members who were in Iran have been arrested inside the country, while "the Interpol has been informed to take action against some who live in the United States."

"The funds given to the cyber network group were allocated by the administration of (former president) George W. Bush to launch a cyber war against Iran," Fars quoted the statement as saying.

"The cyber network group allowed Iranians to access the Internet by bypassing state filtering systems."

It said the group "waged psychological war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, organized and encouraged people to take part in illegal gatherings, collected information on nuclear scientists and gave information to spy agencies."

The People's Mujahedeen has in the past reportedly passed on information on Iran's nuclear program which the West suspects is aimed at making atomic weapons, a charge denied by Tehran.

The group, however, is classed as a terrorist organization by the United States.

It accuses Ahmadinejad's administration of committing rights abuses and recklessly pursuing nuclear weapons, and it supports international sanctions on Iran with the aim of regime change.

In January, Iran's state media blamed the People's Mujahedeen, the United States and Israel for a bomb attack which killed nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi in Tehran.

Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran University, died when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control outside his home in the northern Tehran neighborhood of Qeytariyeh.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Enemy cannot hinder Irans progress
2010-02-09
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Iran's enemies will not be able to block the country's scientific progress.

In an address to the Second National Festival of Innovation and Prosperity in Tehran on Monday, Ahmadinejad said that young Iranian students would continue to attain great achievements in various technological fields.

The Iranian president also said the enemy assassinated Iranian particle physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi but added that such attacks would only strengthen the country's resolve to strive to attain even greater scientific achievements.

Members of the Ali-Mohammadi family attended the festival, which was held as part of the Ten-Day Dawn celebrations commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb that was detonated in front of his home in the Qeytariyeh district of northern Tehran on January 12.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Israel behind murder of Iranian particle physicist'
2010-01-28
Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says the assassination of nuclear physics professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was a premeditated act carried out by the Israeli government.

"The Israelis are naive to think that through committing such crimes they can curtail the country's achievements in science and technology," Mohammad-Najjar said in an interview on Tuesday.

Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at the University of Tehran who taught particle physics, was killed in a remote-controlled bomb attack in the Iranian capital on January 12.

The professor was killed in front of his home in the Qeytariyeh neighborhood in northern Tehran.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry had earlier declared that Iran had discovered traces of US and Israeli involvement in the assassination of Ali-Mohammadi.
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India-Pakistan
Troika on rampage
2010-01-27
ISLAMABAD – US covert organisation Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) notorious reputation to eliminate its ‘enemies' is known well to the world and its intensive efforts, which have been underway since long, to form a vicious alliance with Israel and India have finally begun to show.

For the last couple of years, the United States has been immensely pressurising Iran to curtail its nuclear programme. However, after Iran has refused to succumb to Western pressures regarding UN-brokered deal about uranium enrichment and has placed certain conditions on nuclear fuel swamp, US and its Western allies are desperate to tighten the noose around the country. A prosperous nuclear Iran is seen as a major threat to US and Israel. To curtail this threat, both the countries have intensified ties with India and are using Afghanistan as an outfit to ‘tame' Pakistan, Iran and China as well. To mention the most, Iran has lately confronted assassinations and abductions of its nuclear scientists.

After the assassination of prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Dr Massoud Ali-Mohammadi on January 12 last in a motorbike explosion in Tehran, the Speaker of Iran's Parliament Ali Larijani categorically accused Israel and CIA of the heinous killing. “We had received clear information a few days before the assassination that the intelligence service of the Zionist regime, with the cooperation of the CIA, were seeking to carry out a terrorist act in Tehran,' Larijani had told a news agency, a day after the killing took place.

Another nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri at Malek Ashtar University in Tehran was abducted while he was on his way to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage in June 2009. Iran had accused US of involvement in the abduction.

Back in 2007, Times Online reported that Ardeshire Hassanpour, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the notorious Israeli intelligence agency.

Hassanpour reportedly worked at a plant in Isfahan that produced and processed Uranium Hexafluoride gas required for enrichment of uranium in another Iranian plant. Rheva Bhalla of Stratfor, the US intelligence company, claimed then that Hassanpour had been targeted by Mossad and that there was “very strong intelligence' to suggest that he had been assassinated by the Israelis, who have repeatedly threatened to refrain Iran from acquiring the nuclear bomb.
Apart from that, as reported by US Homeland Security Newswire and local Indian media, Israel and India, in December last year, had a series of meetings of joint defence working group focussing counterterrorism and intelligence sharing, delivery of weapons and enhancement of cooperation in research and development. Chinese news agency Xinhuanet's report quoted a defence official privy to the meeting as saying that the main focus of the talks was on enhancing the counterterrorism cooperation based on intelligence sharing in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks.

More importantly, this meeting followed a low-profile visit of Israeli Chief of Defence Staff, Lt Gen Gabi Ashkenazi to India earlier in the same month, during which he had met the top brass of the Indian armed forces. According to the news service, these developments can be evaluated in the pretext of reports that India has bought military hardware and software from Israel worth $8bn since 1999, making India the biggest buyer of Israeli arms across the globe.
Given that the US barely sees any signs of success in its so-called war on terror in Afghanistan, US and Israel are encouraging Indian military and economic presence in Afghanistan to serve the purpose. While Pakistan is asked to ‘do more' the US and India, with the help of pro-American Afghan government, are all set to engage ‘likeminded' and moderate Taliban into talks, to use them for destabilising Pakistan and Iran. Under the scenario, the situation deems fit into what is described by some analysts as FINISH plan, abbreviated from “financial ruin, infrastructure destruction, nuclear scientists elimination, Indian hegemony, seizing of physical nuclear weapons and harassing Pakistan's leadership and its public.'
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