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Mossad in Iran?

Kamangir | February 2, 2007 | Category Iran

Less than a month ago, Iranian sources briefly referred to the death of the Iranian nuclear scientific Ardeshir Hasan Pour (Persian: اردشیر حسین پور). According to the state-run television, he had suffered from gas poisoning. The fact that the news came out after he was buried initiated doubts about the actual cause of his death. Having patented five inventions, he was an active faculty member in University of Shiraz in the field of Electromagnetic. The available information showed that he had had a central rule in the Islamic Republic nuclear program.

It was very obvious that the vague and late announcement of his death would cause rumors. The main line of these rumors was unwanted exposure to radioactive material, also mentioned in Radio Farda’s early report. To boost the idea, the report referred to the opening of a radioactive injury section in a major hospital in Isfahan, close to many nuclear sites. These speculations were soon buried in the fast pace of events regarding the Iranian nuclear crisis.

In a recent development, a political analyst in Stratfor claims that they have indications that shows that Hasan Pour was in fact a Mossad target. The report continues (needs subscription),

Decapitating a hostile nuclear program by taking out key human assets is a tactic that has proven its effectiveness over the years, particularly in the case of Iraq. In the months leading up to the 1981 Israeli airstrike on Iraq’s Osirak reactor … at least three Iraqi nuclear scientists died under mysterious circumstances.

To know if that’s the case, we should follow the news regarding the IR nuclear scientists, especially when the regime is preparing for a big nuclear party for the anniversary of the IR’s establishment, less than two weeks from now.

Reader's Comments

  1. kupablo | February 2nd, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    7 iranians were arrested in Gaza today, so i’m suprised to hear about the Mossad in Iran, good luck to all.

    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3360122,00.html

  2. paleo | February 2nd, 2007 at 3:21 pm

    I’m not sure where we stand, ideology wise; whether we are on the same side of the fence or across from each other. But the Israeli people have been threatened with extinction. The phrase from Ahmadinejad, as translated into English, was being “wiped off the map,” to be exact. If they (Israel) have agents that can remove the threat of a nuclear armed Iran, without having 500,000 Jews die, and 10,000,000 Iranians die in the counter attack, is not bad news for me. I don’t want either side to have to endure such suffering.
    Thanks for link to Balatarin.com - it brought a ton of traffic. I think a lot of Iranians thought that John Kerry signing a “Death to America” autograph book for Khatami was funny. Hopefully, I got the Farsi/English translation correct.
    BTW: Help yourself to any graphics at my site. Sometimes our interests and concerns probably overlap.

  3. kamangir | February 2nd, 2007 at 3:24 pm

    kupablo,
    Yes, I had read about that.

  4. kamangir | February 2nd, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Paleo,
    Yes, many Iranians found that picture terrific. :)
    I understand what you are saying and I might agree with you, to some extent.

  5. Joe | February 3rd, 2007 at 11:34 am

    Paleo: Ahmadinejad did not say that he wanted to wipe Israel off the map, this was deliberately misrepresented by the western and Israeli press. He said that the “Zionist regime” needs to be “removed from the pages of history”. That is a BIG difference between calling for the “destruction of the Jews” as many people claim. Perhaps you missed it also, but Iran HAS no chance to attain a nuclear bomb in the near future, and even if it could make one bomb, what would it do with it?? As Jacques Chirac said recently, if Iran fired a nuclear missile at say, Israel, it would not get 200 meters into the air before Israel retaliated with some of its (some say) 1500 nukes, turning Iran into rubble. Now, tell me, what leader of any nation would consciously do such a thing? Of course, the Israeli and US governments are attempting to demonise the Iranian leader in order to convince people that he is a “madman” who would do such a thing, but all OBJECTIVE evidence points to the fact that he is not. Can you not conceive of the possibility that political leaders lie in order to further their agenda? Bush and Blair lied about the danger from Iraq, yet it seems people like you are willing to believe them when they talk about the threat from Iran. In the case that Israel and/or the US attacks Iran and kills large numbers of civilians (which is very likely) it is people like you who believe their lies that will be indirectly responsible.

  6. ella | February 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    Joe

    Ahmadinejad’s words were not misrepresented by the western press. If you think that the words “Zionist regime” aka “Israel” that needs to be “removed from the pages of history” aka “destroy” are peacefull expression of love and not statement of intent than I am sorry to say, you are brainwashed.
    During the course of history many people thought that they and their countries were more powerfull than they really were, Ahmadinejad is not an exception.
    Iran does have some resources (read: ore inside Iran, so it do not need to attain one bomb from outside. It has 10 uranium mines and about 5000 tons proven uranium ore. It probably have more.
    Iran nuclear agency for many years lied to IAEA about development of their nuclear reactors in the past, that’s why not many people believe what they claim now.
    If you can conceive of the possiblity that political leaders lie in order to further their agenda why can you not conceive that Iran leaders lie to IAEA about their agenda? After all for many years Iran claimed it did not support Hizbullah with weaponry and money, but a month ago Iranian government openly said they did and they do.

    Now I am not for attack on Iran, but I can see why americans and others, even the French, do not believe what Tehran is saying, about the peacefull nuclear program. And to be truthfull I also do not believe them. And with new weaponry Iran got from Russia, the reach and capabilities of missiles from Iran did increased considerably. Threatening not only Israel but other countries.

    Again, you disbelieve one side - the american one, why do you not disbelieve the other? Or do you think that only american leaders have an exclusivity for lying?

  7. Anna | February 3rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    Hi, Ella … do you want to “hear” some other nice speach? (ok you might say “but that was in 2001″) Just: Nothing has changed since and in these minds quality! And btw: The Yesha-Rabbis have the same rhetorics. Avigdor Liebermann as well .. and many others.
    (It’s always damn easy to point with ones finger at others)

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm

    Bye, mazel tov and shalom!

  8. Anna | February 3rd, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    And we should not forget about Dimona, Ella, should we? And why??? Iran HAS signed the NPT. While Israel never did. And apart from this and as a matter of fact, IL is breaking UN-resolutions even before the ink had time to drye.

  9. kamangir | February 4th, 2007 at 12:34 am

    Joe,

    Ahmadinejad did not say that he wanted to wipe Israel off the map, this was deliberately misrepresented by the western and Israeli press.

    He did say that. As someone who knows Persian I think I am eligible to translate his words. After all, Israel is called “the tumor of the Middle East”. What do you do with a tumor?

  10. kamangir | February 4th, 2007 at 12:36 am

    Anna,
    At least there is an “Israeli Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit” who replies “A person of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s stature must refrain from acrid remarks such as these”. Have you ever heard anyone in the IR saying anything when Khamanei gives hatred speech?

  11. Anna | February 4th, 2007 at 7:17 am

    Forget the Justice Minister or any other “decider”, Kamangir, that’s just words for the “protocol” outside IL. NOT for the reality. Believe me. Sad but true.
    I mean: Iran got in the focus. Other countries and their morons are not. One just can’t avoid the question “And why not.” Maybe it’s all up to the old model: “Ok, it’s a s.o.a.b. BUT it’s our s.o.a.b.”

  12. kamangir | February 4th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    Anna,
    For protocol or for anything else, Israel is able to exhibit a reasonable picture, the IR isn’t.

  13. Plant » Gotta Love Mossad | February 4th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    [...] Stratfor this is the same tactic Israel used prior to hitting Iraq’s nuclear facilities: (via Kamangir) Decapitating a hostile nuclear program by taking out key human assets is a tactic that has proven [...]

  14. Vince P | February 5th, 2007 at 2:48 am

    Can anyone tell me how legitimate these statements are. (some of them can be about two years old now)

    The [Iranians] President’s chief strategist, Hassan Abbassi, has come up with a war plan based on the premise that “Britain is the mother of all evils” – the evils being America, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, the Gulf states and even Canada, all of whom are the malign progeny of the British Empire. “We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization,” says Mr Abbassi. “There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them… Once we have defeated the Anglo-Saxons the rest will run for cover.”

    “The final goal of the revolution is to create global Islamic rule and a regime of law to be led by the Imam Mahdi”. - commandant of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi

    Commandant of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, said on state television. “God willing, the 21st century will see the defeat of the U.S. and the Zionists, and the victory of freedom-seeking nations of the world. The final goal of the [1979] revolution is to create global Islamic rule and a regime of law to be led by the Imam Mahdi”.

  15. ella | February 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    Anna

    Why the %^&%^ do you think I am an Israeli or a Jew? Just because I am not attacking Israel? Is that all one needs to make you think that one is jew?

  16. Anna | February 5th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    Cool down, Ella, please. Just try to understand one thing: Having 3 anchestors that lost their life during the holocaust, I have every right to have a close eye on Israels policies since decades and getting worse and worse if nothing happens to stop it and which I in large parts consider to be utterly rassistic and paranoid .. and thus abhore it! …”you should not do to others, what you don’t like somebody would doing it to you” … a very basic wisdom … getting completely lost. Right now. Right there.

  17. ella | February 5th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    Anna

    Having ancestors that lost life during holocaust does not mean that one critique of Israel policies is right or wrong just because of that. The “utterly racial and paranoid” [according to you]politics of Israel is also not under the discussion here.
    The thing under discussion is what Ahmadinejad said, what IRI is doing and what if anything western countries should do about it.
    It seems that you, because you abhore israel politics see not much wrong in the politics of the countries in ME or, for that matter, completely abhorrent international politics of IRI present and past governments.

  18. Anna | February 5th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Look, Ella, everybody shall do against madness whatever is possible. Anyway and unfortunately it seems not to be quite a lot and at the end. The strange - and for me not “quite” understandable - (coward) tolerance about Israels racial politics and as a effectivly existing nuclear power (!), be it by the EU or by the USA, “disturbs” me … and not only me!. While Iran and for the geostrategic reason to “create a new Middleast” gets into a focus I consider to be highly explosive and the way it’s “taking place” according to the will of IL and the USA will create much more problems than it will be solving. Sorry, but this is not only a conviction of mine, but as well a downright recognition.

    Greetings, Ella, and still a bit hoping that it will not come to the utmost!

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