Iran Says It Has Arrested 20 Suspects Allegedly Tied to Nuclear Experts’ Assassinations
- Posted on June 17, 2012 at 6:06pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says about 20 suspects have been arrested for allegedly links to assassinations of Iranian nuclear experts that Tehran claims is part of covert operations led by Israel.
(Related: Iranian Newspaper Calls for Retaliation Against Israel Over Assassination of Nuclear Scientist)
Sunday’s remark by Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi is the first official number on the detentions. Last week, Iran announced it had made arrests linked to the slayings.
Moslehi claims the suspects moved between Iran and Israel through a neighboring country. He did not name the country, but Iran has accused Azerbaijan of harboring terrorists linked to Israel.
(Related: Wife Admits: Slain Iranian Nuke Scientist‘s ’Ultimate Goal Was the Annihilation of Israel’)
At least five Iranian nuclear experts have been killed since 2010. The U.S. and Britain have denied any roles, but Israel has remained silent on Iran’s accusations. In May, Iran hanged a man convicted in the killing of a nuclear physicist in early 2010.
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Joe Bonham
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 3:26pmNow remember children, terrorism is only bad if our enemies do it! If the Israelis or any of our other tools do it, its A-OKAY!
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:57amif they can prove those suspects guilty they have the right to imprison or kill them for their crime.
Report Post »jacques.daspy
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:18amThe US Government has Federal Agencies that would do the Iranians proud. They have the power and authority to dispense with those citizens that are deemed disposable by them. They create the “evidence” and then evaluate the evidence. The suspect has no legal defense or confrontation rights but only the “right to appeal,”during which the process will be repeated by the same people with the same result. The fact that eighteen of these suspects die every day is irrelevant.
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:36amWow!
It sure would have been simple if the Ayatollah Obama would have simply sent aid to the thousands of protestors in the streets of Tehran during the summer of 2009. You remember. We watched them dying after being shot, bruned and stabbed by the mullahs. On underpasses, they wrote, “Mr. Obama, where are you?”
Meetings in the desert with our special ops boys bringing the rioters cash, secure communications, weapons, ammo and explosives and the training to use them sure would have created a different 2012 than the one we see now.
Did the Ayatollah Obama already has a prupose for Iran that those pesky rioters were trying to scuttle? Could it involve Israel’s future? I just wonder.
Report Post »imfrzn
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 2:35amAnd if it turns out these 20 are innocent they‘ll execute them anyway because it’s been 45 minutes or so since the last execution and it’s such a fuss to have to drag someone off the street when you already have a tankful of perceived random infidels!
Report Post »drbage
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 10:33amAlso remember that under Sharia law, you are considered guilty, since you are accused, until such time as you prove your innocence.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 1:36amSend the ‘suspects’ over to my house. I’ll buy the beer.
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