Excerpt: "Iranian state television on Sunday broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010."
Six Iranians who are alleged to be part of a group of 13 who 'confessed' to killing four Iranian nuclear scientists. (photo: IRINN/AFP/Getty Images)
Iranians 'Confess' to Nuclear Scientist Murders on State Television
06 August 12
ranian state television on Sunday broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.
The broadcast showed some of the suspects re-enacting the assassinations in different districts of the capital, Tehran. The 14 suspects shown on TV included eight men and six women.
The TV showed pictures from a military garrison it said was a training camp outside Tel Aviv in Israel. It said the suspects took courses there, including how to place magnetic bombs on cars - the method used in the killing of the scientists.
Iran says the attacks are part of a covert campaign by Israel and the west to sabotage its nuclear programme, which the US and its allies suspect is aimed at producing nuclear weapons. Iran denies that.
Iran's intelligence chief, Heidar Moslehi, had promised recently to provide detailed TV pictures about the case.
Iran has blamed the Mossad as well as the CIA and MI6 for the assassinations, with support from some of Iran's neighbours. The US and Britain have denied involvement in the killings. Israel has not commented.
The TV report said CCTV in a Tehran street recorded one of the operations, providing clues for Iran's intelligence agencies to identify and arrest the suspects.
One of the suspects, Behzad Abdoli, claimed that he received training in Israel, along with several others.
"I entered Turkey and then was taken to Cyprus by ship. From there, I entered Israel and [then] Tel Aviv ... They [Israelis] said that this group is being supported financially by the US and Israel," he said.
Another suspect, Arash Kheradkish, said he received training in attaching magnetic bombs to moving cars.
"There was a motorcycle racing complex [in Tel Aviv] where we received training. We were told we needed to improve our skills so that we would be able to attach magnetised bombs to moving cars ... We were given time bombs that we had to push the start button when we attached it," he said.
"At the end of the training course, members [of the group] were given money. They arranged our return [to Iran]."
The broadcast said Jamali Fashi and Arash Kheradkish got the highest grades during training in Tel Aviv and were chosen to lead the operations.
Maziar Ebrahimi, another suspect, said there were three groups involved in the bombings: two on a motorbike, a car driving in front to slow the target car and a third support team waiting nearby to help if necessary.
"The assassination control room was in Tel Aviv, but it was receiving the orders from Washington and London," the TV report said.
The TV report did not say if the 14 suspects have already stood trial or when they would be tried.
In May, Iran hanged Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of Tehran University physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi. Fashi, who said in televised confessions that he was recruited by the Mossad, was convicted last August.
At least five Iranian nuclear scientists, including a manager at the Natanz enrichment facility, have been killed since 2010.
Officials say that the campaign includes the abduction of Iranian scientists, the sale of faulty equipment and the planting of a destructive computer worm known as Stuxnet, which briefly brought Iran's uranium enrichment activity to a halt in 2010.
The broadcast said Iran reserves the right to pursue the case through legal channels at international bodies.
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This smells like propaganda.
Or maybe the Mossad forgot to tell 'em to keep their mouth shut.
If the real culprits who assassinated these scientist were caught, they would have been tortured to death and not pranced around on TV.
Why not assassinate nuclear scientists, when the alternative is all out war or bombing - or refraining from doing anything and then having to cowering under the threat of a lunatic religious state with nuclear weapons and a major grudge towards Israel and the West?
There is no reason at all these countries need nuclear weapons. It does nothing for their people and is only considered in order to protect the criminal class of leaders who manipulate and abuse their people.
Too many times we have been deceived by our own government relative to attacks, bombings, assassinations, and so forth, to trust any of these reports.
There is no proof Iran has nukes, just facilities and they have voluntarily allowed inspections, just as Hussein did, but afterward the fact of those inspections were denied by the U.S. and folks who warned of the lies of the U.S. were, if not assassinated, had their careers destroyed.
There is no way to trust any reports until serious journalist researchers get involved.
There is Iran's support and direction of terrorist groups, Hezbollah and Hamas, and it's ubiquitous government signs and directions of death to Israel and the West.
The governments and Iran and Saudi Arabia are no friends to human rights, yet somehow there are all this small vehement mob of Iran supporters that also criticize the US for doing things only a shadow as bad as Iran, and yet at the same time ignore Iran for it.
The ending of these governments will make things a miniscule amount better in the world for the local people and everyone else. Peace in the Middle East is less likely with lots of nuclear weapons.
Some complain about how the sanctions affected Iraq, but the money taken from the governments of these countries to pay for a nuclear arms race is going to do something similiar, yet than does not get considered.
I imagine the story from the media about Iraq is not quite what we all imagine, which may be why Saddam was killed before he could tell his story.
Iran being Islamic as long as they are stuck in a religious state model is a grave danger to Iranians, and everyone else. Consider what you would say about a US that was radical Christian and the danger that would pose to Americans and the world.
I wonder what the true story is. Clearly the truth is that the Israeli MOssad and the CIA are behind the bombings. Mossad has admitted as much. Not only murders in Iran, but in many other nations as well. So that much is true. The rest -- who knows. Certainly we won't learn anything AP.
Didn't need a degree in Middle East Affairs to figger that one out, what?!
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