Monday, 7 November 2011

The Secret War Against Iran (And Vice Versa)


Demonstrators in Tehran last year protested the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. Atta Kenare/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

America's Deadly Dynamics With Iran -- David Sanger

COMMUTING to work in Tehran is never easy, but it is particularly nerve-racking these days for the scientists of Shahid Beheshti University. It was a little less than a year ago when one of them, Majid Shahriari, and his wife were stuck in traffic at 7:40 a.m. and a motorcycle pulled up alongside the car. There was a faint "click" as a magnet attached to the driver's side door. The huge explosion came a few seconds later, killing him and injuring his wife.

On the other side of town, 20 minutes later, a nearly identical attack played out against Mr. Shahriari's colleague Fereydoon Abbasi, a nuclear scientist and longtime member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards [...]



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