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Pro-democracy nuclear physicist assassinated by bomb in Iran

Antonin Alexander | 12.01.2010 19:19 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a 50 year-old nuclear physics professor who has been a public supporter of opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi and an advocate for secular democratic reform in Iran was killed outside his home by a motorcycle rigged with a bomb.

Masoud Ali Mohammadi
Masoud Ali Mohammadi


The Iranian Fars News Agency quoted state officials as blaming the CIA, possibly with the assistance of Israeli intelligence, for the assassination. The United States has denied the accusation while Israel has not yet made any comment.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has also accused the People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) of carrying out the assassination for the Israeli Mossad. The PMOI has denied the accusation.

The professor had no links with the Iranian civilian nuclear program or connections with any nuclear research facility or military research centre. According to a few of his students, the professor had strong pacifist and anti-war leanings, expressing hope that the United States and Israel would not attack Iran, and had at times made comments critical of both religion and the state.

However, an anonymous source within the Iranian Students News Agency have stated that the Tehran University professor, Masoud Ali Mohammadi, was a known unofficial supporter of Mir Hossein Mousavi and a quiet advocate of secular democracy. An official at Tehran University had apparently once accused the professor of being an atheist, a charge Mohammadi denied. No charges against him were filed at the time.

However, the professor was not known to have ever actively taken part in any demonstrations or protests against the state or to have ever made public statements condemning the Iranian government.

There has been quiet speculation amongst domestic analysts and journalists that if the professor had been assassinated by the Iranian state, that it was due to his possible refusal to assist in the nuclear program or that they feared a possible defection to the West.

Speculation and accusations aside, it is an established fact that Masoud Ali Mohammadi was not actively involved in politics nor connected to any work remotely related to Iran's civilian nuclear program nor to any alleged military research.

According to all sources, Masoud Ali Mohammadi was simply a nuclear physics professor, well-liked by his students and an unofficial supporter of secular democratic reform.

Antonin Alexander

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who the fuk is Antonin Alexander ?

13.01.2010 11:07

So an Iranian Nuke Professor is bumped off in Tehran, pretty obvious who the likely suspects are but of course they are free western democratic countries, where people just don't do these sort of things, unless of course it's for money, as in personal gain, then it's fine.
Their democratic values and principles will be defended by scores of puppet writers who will go into action to weave a trail of lies and deception until no one really knows or cares what happened.

There main aim is to demonize Iran and Iranians in general, so by making this guy out to be a easy going democratic it kinda takes the spotlight of the prime suspects. It's just a small part of a wider disinformation strategy designed to cover the tracks of who done it.
So who is Antonin Alexander ?? and why don't he put a link to his site and come correct....

Reader


who the fuk are you?

13.01.2010 13:25

Stop posting nonsensical and pointless comments and harassing people.

@ reader


who is anybody?

13.01.2010 17:31

Makes perfect sense to me. Which ever government sponsored this mans death the spin possibilities are endless.

rentokill


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