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Thursday, 19 January 2012

Iran's nuclear scientists are not being assassinated. They are being murdered

In this recommended article from The Guardian Mehdi Hasan argues that "Killing our enemies abroad is just state-sponsored terror – whatever euphemism western leaders like to use."

On the morning of 11 January Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the deputy head of Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was in his car on his way to work when he was blown up by a magnetic bomb attached to his car door. He was 32 and married with a young son. He wasn't armed, or anywhere near a battlefield.

Since 2010, three other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed in similar circumstances, including Darioush Rezaeinejad, a 35-year-old electronics expert shot dead outside his daughter's nursery in Tehran last July. But instead of outrage or condemnation, we have been treated to expressions of undisguised glee.

Read the full article at The Guardian here

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