IRAN: Ahmadinejad blames attacks against nuclear scientists on 'Zionist dogs'

Tempers flared in Iran on Wednesday as authorities held a funeral for Iranian nuclear physicians Majid Shahriari, who was killed in one of two reported attacks against the country's atomic brain trust.

Iranian officials blamed the West and Israel for the attacks.

"They mention the names of our scientists in their [United Nations] resolutions and provide the Zionist dogs with a copy and tell them to kill," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Mazandaran province, according to the semi-official Fars news agency 

The attacks, which also injured one other nuclear scientist and three others, came as Iran and the West prepare for Dec. 6-7 talks in Geneva over Iran's controversial nuclear program. 

The head of that nuclear program, Ali Akbar Salehi, said during the burial ceremony Shahriari, one of his former students, that the killing was "part and parcel of a carrot-and-stick policy" of the West meant to put pressure on Iran. 

"They used all their capacity, for example resolutions, sanctions and political pressures," Saeed Jalili, who will lead the negotiation team next week in Geneva, told state television. "The fact that today they are resorting to assassination shows their desperation and shows that they have reached a dead-end."

-- Los Angeles Times

Photo: Women mourn over the casket of slain Iranian scientist Majid Shahriari, who was killed in what police describes as a bomb attack on Monday. Credit: Mohsen Rezai / Mehr News Agency

 

Comments

[David Faubion]

@ steveg68 Sure enough, Godwin's law has come into play in this discussion; Goodwin's law:"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1:1." Steve, please take a look at the cover of Hago Meyer's The End of Judaism: an Ethical Tradition Betrayed. You will see that the author has juxtaposed a photo of 1940's holocaust scenes with a photo of recent IDF violence upon persons in Gaza. So, Meyer, an Jewish Auschwitz survivor trumps your seemingly desperate clutching at straws as scare tactics. Fact is, 25,000 Jews still choose to live in Iran. -- But, now Steve, you will likely invoke, what I would call the Freud Einstein law of the self-hating Jew: As an online discussion about Israel grows longer, the probability of an accusation of the self-hating Jews approaches 1:1. Both Freud and Einstein cautioned against Zionism and a Zionist Jewish state, well ahead of the 1949 statehood. So, by the illogical premise of the Zionist pseudo-argument, Freud and Einstein, both Jews, were models of the self-hating Jew.

[steveg68]

@Joe
Touché (or I would say 'tusheee', but I understand how spitefully pedantic you are).
Israel left the Sinai, left Gaza, and will probably soon leave the West Bank (99%) of it anyway. They'll end up leaving the Golan as well. It just won't happen as long as they can't be assured of their safety.

Once again: the Iranian leadership would like to blame all of their problems on Israel, utilizing old school pre war Germany anti-semitic, hate filled terms, and that is just plain wrong. (It was this type of rhetoric that lead to the Holocaust and at the current rate will probably lead to Iran using nukes on Tel Aviv. Then the world will sit back and wonder why this happened).

Frankly, I was surprised that Israel wasn't mentioned as the culprit when it came to the smog problem in Tehran.

[David Faubion]

@ Edina You are correct that ..."one day justice will be achieved and with the cooperation of Israelis who thrive for this same justice." The movement toward that end has a strong, broad, growing presence in Israel from the grassroots to the most organized institutions in Israeli society. The movement for the reform of Zionism-- that is the end of it-- is stronger in Israel than anywhere else. But, alas, just like reform that the majority seeks here in the USA, such as stopping US criminal wars, the mass uproar fall on deaf ears, ignored. This is most undemocratic: the power of the totalitarian to deny our will, our desire, our collective majority mandate for the peace of justice.

[Joe]

@steve68
If you lose your temper, you'd already lost the argument.
Buddy, no question about it you need help. It's not Psyche, like you said. It's psycho.......
Look, very simple. No Israeli colonization of its neighbors, no problem. Got it?

[David Faubion]

Oops. My post was meant to address the remarks of Joe: @Joe not @steve68

[David Faubion]

@steve68 Well put. I would add Lebanon to your list. That sovereign nation is now rife with Mosaad poised to rip open a pretext that will irk Hezbollah until it can take no more. Israel's IDF are stacked like human missiles on the border and the Israeli air force is willing and able to kill any and all Lebanese that get in its way of complete command over its mythic Eretz (greater) Yisrael (Old Testament fiction). Israel’s aim is the spoils of its war, its conquest: the resources: water and arable land unspoiled by its toxic industry of arms; resources that Israel covets and wastes in its glut of military production, a gross lopsided part of its GDP, funded by its tax base and main donor: the USA—all in an ape-like mimic of its role model mentor: the USA.

[steveg68]

@Joe
Is it really the trouble with me? If I wanted your analysis I would have made an appointment at the Psyche department where you work.

If nobody responded to irrational commentary posted on these boards, then the moron's of the world would win their arguments by default. Obviously the idea that it's not okay to post off topic had a disagreeable impact on you.

As my great-grandparents left Europe for America because it was practically illegal for Jews to make a living there pre-WWII, it's really hard not to be too sensitive to ridiculous anti-semitism/anti-Israeli sentiments, and yes, they are really connected, in spite of what the Arabs and Persians, and Iranians are trying to convince you.

By the way, just to keep things on topic, I wasn't suggesting the Israelis can not do anything bad, if you actually knew how to read you would understand that I was responding to the fact that the so-called President of Iran is blaming Israel for something, seemingly, without a shred of evidence. Just like Hezbollah blamed Israel for the Harriri murder, when it's looking now like Syria did it.

Oh, yeah, the Israelis left Gaza and they were met with a response of thousands of rocket attacks. And the "Apartheid" wall, well, that never would have been built if there weren't a string of moronic maliciously murderous suicide bombers after Oslo.

The last part "If you insist then tell your Israeli..." That makes no sense whatsoever. If I were to insist that Israel can not do anything bad, then it only logically follows that I would be a die hard supporter of Israel, and would never in any shape or form tell my Israeli brothers, (I don't have any brothers, but that's beside the point), I would tell them to stay, and would be telling the Palestinians to leave Palestine, which, if they could I'm certain they would be happy to do so (the poverty situation there is outrageous).

And now, think of me saying this in the thickest highest pitched nasally of red-necked accents: "and, if you don't like my opinion, brother, than you can just pack your bags and go to China, because we don't need your type here in the USofA, you non-free speech lovin' commie bastard."

[Edina]

@David Faubion: I am not pointing fingers at anyone. I am just trying to be fair. even if the likeliness to be a mossad action is high, there are no proofs so far that I know of. I am completely against israeli government attitude towards the PA, but I believe one day justice will be achieved and with the cooperation of israelis who thrive for this same justice. One day more people will refuse to close their eyes on reality and understand that by taking people's dignity and territory, you are making fellow human beings suffer and possibly building hartred slowly but surely.

[Joe]

@steve68
FYI that's what this article is all about. Mr. A blames ............
The trouble with you, is that you're too sensitive. It's like Israel can not do anything bad. When we all know otherwise. If you insist then tell your Israeli brothers to get the hell outta Palestine, and Syria!

[David Faubion]

@ Edina Thank you for bringing out the dog/man/Zionist/Israel relationship. Dogs, as you do seem to suggest, when in contact with man can be trained: programmed to become efficient killers. That is what Mr A is suggesting. The Zionist dogma, if you will, has dehumanized humans to act doggone indecently, as in premeditated murder. Now, we know that Mossad has murdered a Palestinian recently in Dubai. See the Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. We know that Mossad has murdered Arab/Muslims and others in foreign countries worldwide on a regular basis, heinous crimes since 1949. The CIA and MI6 continue to work directly with Mossad; all three agencies have spooks (dogs, spooks, moles ...) right now in Iran. The leak of a distortion, hearsay, or an outright lie that justifies pointing the finger at the Saudi's is a stretch, a nice try, but no cigar.

[Edina]

"zionist dogs"...he could have said the zionist state is a possible lead as SA also is and noone could have denied that. there are human beings living in israel mr A and dogs but they don't have citizenship. i doubt that those poor animals would murder many people and they don't care about who is zionist or not. only human beings are evil enought to be assassins . dogs are mostly friendly until they come in contact with our species. in any case, i haven't heard of any result of investigations and doubt there will ever be such thing...

[David Faubion]

Other recent reports from credentialed, unbiased journalists have the Saudi's making positive gestures toward Iran in recent months. The Saudi's themselves arm themselves to the teeth because they are in the midst of a gross imbalance of power. What the leaks have shown and do prove is that US diplomacy is willing and able to deceive: lie, cheat, violate rules, accuse falsely, and violate the rules of engagement at every turn. Lies and the like are the fertile ground of warmongering, and part of that topsoil is the clandestine operations of your CIA, KGB, MI6, and the friskiest most lethal of them all, the Zionist pup named Mossad.

[steveg68]

I love how all the regular anti-Israel sentimentalists jump on the "Zionists must have done it" band wagon before an investigation is even made. It shows real world prejudiced misconceptions.

This is an article about the murder of Nuclear scientists in Iran, with a clearly anti-Jewish presidential knee jerk reaction that the Zionists did it. But if you've been paying attention to the Wikileaks story you'd be able to conclude that any number of countries could have been behind it, including Saudi Arabia.

For anyone to push anti-Israeli propaganda on comment sections of unrelated articles is truly disgusting.

[David Faubion]

@ geo88a
Indeed, a well-aimed BDS is the nonviolent strategy, a win/win that has little or no impact on the civil economy. But, the types of sanctions that the US imposes on countries, such post-Gulf War Iraq, do impact civilians, often with deadly force as in the 1,000,000 dead Iraqi children, through the 1990s. The rational type of BDS was what largely stopped apartheid in South Africa. -- The goal in Israel is the one secular democratic state with full rights and protections under a Constitution, which Israel has yet to form. Israel is a Jewish state and has no Constitution, both of which fly in the face of the ideals that the USA is based upon. -- Call the new Zionist-free sate anything, call it, say, PALUSARAEL, but for the sake of Allah, God, and Yahweh make it a non-religious state with protections for and from all religious doctrine, dogma, pseudo-history, and so forth. Make it soon, too.

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Unfortunately, I doubt America had any part in this. We have completely lost the ability to deal with our enemies as such. North Korea is proof of that. We've turned our military into a police force and our CIA into a criminal investigation organization.

Thank goodness there is still at least one country that stands strong against the enemies of peace. Thank goodness for Israel!

[geo88a]

@David Faubion
Yes, I agree with you.
It's time to DIVEST, SANCTION, BOYCOTT ISRAEL!

[David Faubion]

Ahmadinejad's tough talk has one other purpose, beyond the aforementioned. He provokes the most extreme in Israel, those with the most power, to do what it does best: commit impulsive, overt criminal acts against its Arab/Muslim neighbors, those who resist the conquest, those millions in refugee camps: those in the way of Israel. The Zionist delusion is the belief that Israel has broad consent for their heinous crimes. The Zionist buys into its own myths, easily debunked, myths that are supposed to give Israel a special currency of criminality; thus, the Zionist believes that Israel is above the law; laws do not apply to Israel. But, because the Zionist claims to work for Jews and Judaism, that Zionist mentality makes Judaism an Ethical Tradition Betrayed--which is the sub-title of the book by Hago Meyer: a Jew, an Auschwitz survivor, and a man who now mourns for what he sees in Zionist Israel as The End of Judaism, the main title of his groundbreaking book.

[David Faubion]

geo88a You wrote, "Ahmadinejad has stated on several occasions that he plans to erased Israel from the map." Rhetoric and tough talk is a far cry from the overt, asymmetrical military force that Israel clubs the poorest place in the world: Gaza. Tough talk is harmless compared to the apartheid, ethnic cleansing such as home demolitions, daily humiliations at checkpoints, and theft of resources—all of which Israel imposes upon Gaza and the West Bank—daily. Ahmadinejad's tough talk has a three-fold purpose: 1) give Palestinians solidarity and hope for the future, 2) get the attention and ear of the global community, and 3) spark a dialog that starts with Iran in a strong, resolute position: no compromise, none of the waffling, which has plague the Arab/Muslim position historically.

[David Faubion]

If looks like Mossad, a Zionist, then likely it is a Zionist pup named Mossad. Readers learn the terms of conquest such as Zionist, Mossad, CIA, Israeli overt destruction of its neighbors' nuclear sites and other infrastructure, ethnic cleansing, genocide, torture, and, as designed by the US and Israel, the incitement and infrastructure of terror. --Some accuse Ahmadinejad of being an anti-Semite out to destroy Israel; that is a false charge; he wants to end Zionist conquest. Israel, by contrast, works to destroy Iran and any other resistance, as it always has in its mode of the brute bully preventing any possibility of resistance; thus, Israel violates all laws of engagement as a habitual war criminal. Likewise, power in the US wants to replace Iran's government with one that is compliant with US interests. Iran stands strong with the first unified effort to oppose the US/Israeli colonial conquest.

[geo88a]

@David Fauibon
Yes, indeed, Israel is the aggressor make to mistake about that.
But, Iran does leave a lot to be desired.
Israel must withdrawal from Palestine, and Syria. But, when Ahmadinejad has stated on several occasions that he plans to erased Israel from the map. Well, that's another bowl of fish.(like my grandma used to say)