Is Western Terror Bombing of Iranians Legitimate?

By Michael Hoffman

Karasik: "Clean, Easy and Efficient” 

 Theodore Karasik, a "security expert" at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis in Dubai, said the assassination on January 11 of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, a professor at a technical university in Tehran, and a department supervisor at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment plant, by a bomber on a motorcyle, "fit a pattern over the past two years of covert operations by the West and its allies" to “degrade and delay” Iran’s nuclear program. The assassin attached a magnetized explosive device to the scientist’s car and escaped during the rush hour in northern Tehran. Mr. Karasik, formerly of the RAND corporation, said magnetic bombs were used in covert operations, describing them as “clean, easy and efficient.”

 According to the New York Times, the Jan. 11, 2012 bombing "resembled the methods used in attacks in November 2010 against two other nuclear scientists — Majid Shahriari, who was killed, and Fereydoon Abbasi, who survived and is now in charge of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.”


(Other than in initial dispatches published in 2010, in follow-up reporting the New York Times and most of the American media have omitted the fact that Prof. Abbasi's wife was wounded in the 2010 terror bombing of her husband’s car. She is only Iranian however, and therefore just collateral damage. In line with Talmudic halacha, Mrs. Abbasi does not qualify as fully human the way the wife of an Israeli scientist would be if the Zionist state’s nuclear weapons program was under attack and an Israeli scientist’s wife had been injured. In that case, the Israeli lady's injury would be repeated in all subsequent reports).

Almost exactly two years ago, in January 2010, a physics professor, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was also assassinated in Tehran.

Mordechai:"Not shedding a tear"

Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, said of the Jan. 11 terror bomb that killed Prof. Roshan, "I am definitely not shedding a tear,” Agence France-Presse reported. The world is expected to shed copious tears however, when Islamic bombs strike Israelis or Americans.  (Mordechai was formerly a member of the Israeli “Golani Brigade.” Golani troops committed war crimes against Lebanese civilians during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982).

Last October the U.S. government accused Iranian agents of a heinous conspiracy to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador in the United States, supposedly using Mexican drug cartel hit-men. The spectre of the alleged plot caused widespread moral revulsion and denunciation of Iran across the American media, and even calls for war with Iran from American politicians.

Will U.S. media and politicians denounce today's assassination of another Iranian scientist? Will Prof. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's murder by car bomb result in calls for a Congressional investigation of Israeli and American covert terror operations? Or will the January 11 terror bomb planted by one of our assassins (or that of our “allies"), be applauded? How is it that western terror-bombing and assassination are morally permissible?  Can anyone answer?

Sources: New York Times, Jan. 11, 2012, Agence France-Presse, Jan. 11, 2012. BBC Nov. 29, 2010. 

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Michael Hoffman is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press and the author of numerous books including Judaism Discovered and Judaism’s Strange Gods. His writing is solely funded by donations from readers and the sale of his books, “Revisionist History” newsletters and recordings.

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Media continues its amnesia over terrorist attack on Iran’s scientists

Letter to New York Times reporter David E. Sanger

Dear Mr. Sanger

Why did you omit mention of the recent, Nov. 29 assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari in your Dec. 10 report on U.S. opposition to Iranian nuclear power?

You mentioned the Stuxnet “worm” whose provenance pre-dates the assassination, but the not the assassination itself, or the murder of another scientist’s wife, Mrs. Fereydoon Abbasi, in the same attack.

Sincerely,
Michael Hoffman

Note how Sanger (below) reports that Gary Samore, an Obama administration official, is pleased that covert attacks against Iran, such as the Stuxnet worm, are in place. By omitting reference to the recent assassination of the Iranian scientist, Sanger does not have to ask the administration any embarrassing questions about whether they are pleased about that covert operation as well. Furthermore, it seems that Mr. Sanger, along with most of the US media including NPR, intends to have us forget about the terror attack against Iran’s scientists. By omission and distortion, the US propaganda system, in which Mr. Sanger is a prominent player, seeks to teach us that terror attacks worth remembering occur only against the Israelis and the West, not Muslims or Iranians.

Gary Samore represented the Obama administration on Iran at the conference of the noble-sounding “Foundation for the Defense of Democracies” ((http://www.defenddemocracy.org) which David Sanger fails to mention is actually a neocon front group whose “Leadership council” consists of Newt Gingrich, Sen. Joe Lieberman and William Kristol.

U.S. and Allies Plan More Sanctions Against Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/world/middleeast/11nuke.html?hp

by David E. Sanger | NY Times | Dec. 10, 2010

WASHINGTON — Three days after the first nuclear talks with Iran in more than a year adjourned with no progress, President Obama’s chief nuclear adviser said on Friday that the United States and its allies planned a new round of sanctions against the country in coming weeks, part of an effort to test “how high Iran’s pain threshold is” and force the country into suspending its production of nuclear fuel.

Another session of talks with Iran is scheduled to take place next month, probably in Turkey. But at a conference on Friday held by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Mr. Obama’s coordinator for weapons of mass destruction, Gary Samore, suggested that Iran may have decided to resume talks with the with the members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany “because it believes it can manipulate the appearance of negotiations to weaken existing sanctions and avoid additional measures.”

“This ploy will not work,” Mr. Samore said. “In the wake of the Geneva talks, we and our allies are determined to maintain and even increase pressure. We need to send the message to Iran that sanctions will only increase if Iran avoids serious negotiations and will not be lifted until our concerns are fully addressed.”

Mr. Samore was not specific about the sanctions now being contemplated. He also would not comment on the effects of the Stuxnet worm, which appears to have been directed at disrupting Iran’s centrifuges.

“I’m glad to hear they are having troubles with their centrifuge machines,” he said with a smile, “and the U.S. and its allies are doing everything we can to make it more complicated.” But he said nothing about who was responsible for the worm. (END QUOTE)

For further research:
(Youtube video): NPR’s Propaganda System against Iran

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Terrorist bomb attack on Iranian scientists kills one, wounds another

Top Iranian Nuclear Scientists Attacked

NY Times online |  November 29, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/world/middleeast/30tehran.html?hp

TEHRAN — Unidentified assailants riding motorcycles launched separate bomb attacks here on Monday against two of the country’s top nuclear scientists, killing one and prompting accusations that the United States and Israel were again trying to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program.

...The motorcycle attackers attached the bombs to the professors’ cars and then drove off, detonating them from a distance, according to Iranian media reports. Mr. Abbasi’s wife was also hurt in the blast, the reports said. Last January, a remote-controlled bomb killed a physics professor, Masoud Ali Mohammadi, outside his home....

The slain scientist, Majid Shahriari, managed a “major project” for the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, Iran’s nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, told the semiofficial IRNA news agency. His injured colleague, Fereydoon Abbasi, is believed to be even more important; he is on the United Nations Security Council’s sanctions list for ties to the Iranian nuclear effort...

Israel and the United States have often signaled that they will not tolerate a nuclear Iran. Neither has acknowledged pursuing sabotage or assassinations there, but both are widely believed to be pursuing ways to undermine the country’s nuclear program...

“They’re bad people, and the work they do is exactly what you need to design a bomb,” said a (U.S.) federal official who assesses scientific intelligence and spoke on condition of anonymity. “They’re both top scientists.”

P. J. Crowley, the State Department spokesman, did not address the Iranian accusations in detail. “All I can say is we decry acts of terrorism wherever they occur and beyond that, we do not have any information on what happened,” he said.

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Israelis say: Terror bombing 'great achievement for free world'

They Rule By Assassination

ASSASSINATION IS "TERRORISM" WHEN ENEMIES OF THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN CARTEL COMMIT IT

ASSASSINATION IS A "BLESSING" FOR HUMANITY WHEN ISRAELIS OR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PERPETRATE IT

Ex-Mossad chief: Mughniyah killing 'great achievement for free world'

PMO denies Israeli role in Imad Mughniyah's death

By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz | Feb. 13, 2008

The Prime Minister's Office on Wendesday denied any Israeli role in the assassination of Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Imad Mughniyah, who was killed in a bomb blast in Damascus late Tuesday night.

"Israel rejects the attempt by terror groups to attribute to it any involvement in this incident," said the PMO in a statement. "We have nothing further to add."

Former Mossad chief Danny Yatom on Wednesday welcomed Mughniyah's death, calling it "a great achievement for the free world in its fight on terror."

"Mughniyah was one of the most dangerous and cruel terrorists of all time," said the Labor MK. "There are numerous intelligence agencies and countries that have been pursuing him, and the one that was successful in reaching him [has proven itself] - to have a high intelligence and operational capability."

Yatom called Mughniyah's death a serious blow to Hezbollah, both in terms of morale and in terms of its operational capabilities, saying the assassination could only have been made possible by penetrating deep into the organization.

"Whoever can take him out can take out anyone in Hezbollah," he said. "It will take Hezbollah a long time to find an heir."

"Mughniyah was responsible for the deaths of many Jews, Israelis, Americans, and was solely and directly responsible for Hezbollah attacks abroad, through close cooperation with Iran," he said.

Environment Minister Gideon Ezra, formerly a senior intelligence officer, also hailed the killing of the top Hezbollah commander. "I, of course, do not know who carried out the assassination of Imad, but he should be blessed," he said.

Hamas slammed the assassination. "We condemn this crime and we emphasize the Muslim nation must rise up to confront the Zionist devil which is back by the Americans," said a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Samir Abu Zuhri.

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