Top Iranian nuke scientist 'assassinated by Mossad'

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

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Top Iranian nuke scientist 'assassinated by Mossad'*

U.S. intelligence company says Israel making good on threat to stop bomb

Posted: February 3, 2007
News from Israel

The mysterious death last month of a top Iranian nuclear physicist
involved with the Islamic Republic's current effort to enrich uranium
was the work of Mossad, the Israeli security service, a leading U.S.
intelligence company claims.

The death of Ardeshir Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear scientist, was not
announced until Jan. 21, six days after his death, according to Radio
Farda. The official cause of death was reported as "gas poisoning," but
Iranian authorities did not disclose how or where Hassanpour was
poisoned. The announcement, reports said, came at a conference on
nuclear safety.

Hassanpour claimed Iran's most prestigious military-research prize in
2004 and received the top award at an international science event in
Iran in 2006.

According to the London Times, Stratfor, a U.S. security company,
reported on Friday that its sources within Israel identified Hassanpour
as a Mossad target and said "very strong intelligence" suggested the
security service had assassinated the scientist.

It was reported that Israel has warned Tehran it would not be permitted
to threaten the Jewish state with annihilation.

Hassanpour worked at the Isfahan plant that produces
uranium-hexafluoride gas, a raw material for the enrichment of uranium
at the Natanz facility which has become the focus of concerns over
Iran's development of nuclear weapons.

There is precedent for Mossad using assassination to interfere with
efforts of its neighbors to acquire nuclear weapons.

It is believed by intelligence experts that three top scientists in
Iraq's nuclear program were killed by Mossad before Israel launched the
successful 1981 air strike that crippled the Osirak nuclear reactor.

In 1980, Yahya al-Meshad was found stabbed and bludgeoned to death in
his Paris hotel room after arriving in France to test fuel for the
reactor. Over the next several months, two other Iraqi nuclear
scientists died after being poisoned.