Killing Iran’s Nuclear Scientists ~ Cui Bono?
by Nick Glossop on January 12, 2012One comment
In essence, you cannot threaten a country into feeling more secure.
-Trita Parsi
A public service announcement from 1970
via Juan Cole
A Speculation from Juan Cole
If four US nuclear scientists were (God forbid) blown up at Las Alamos one after another, I think we all know that there would be hell to pay.
The motive was to damage Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.
The opportunity belonged to someone who could be in Iran, could monitor [the movements of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, a professor at Tehran’s technical university] without suspicion, and who could drive a motorcycle around the Iranian capital (and therefore someone whose papers were in order in case the police or other security forces stopped him).
The countries most eager to stop the Iranian program are Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia. So they are the ones with motive.
The means, a sticky bomb, is commonly used by radical militias in Iraq…
…If you put this all together, you can come to a speculation. The circumstantial evidence would point to a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK or People’s Jihadis) terrorist organization. The MEK is known to have been involved in espionage on the Iranian nuclear program, and it wants to overthrow the current government in favor of a Marxist-Islamic regime, working with Israeli intelligence.
-Juan Cole
The war-ward slide
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Matt on January 12, 2012 at 4:48 pm. #
I agree with Cole. MEK has the means, motive and opporunity. They are also being supported by a who’s who of the neo-con movement to be taken off the terrorist watch list. This all makes sense.
Question is, what does this mean? All the same “very serious people” who got us in the last flustercluck are pushing the narrative that we need to attack Iran.