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MURDERED IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTIST'S FUNERAL VIDEO


Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran's nuclear program.

  • Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated today by two men who attached a magnetic bomb to his car
    • IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTIST ASSASSINATED WITH A MAGNETIC BOMB ON HIS CAR
    A leading Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated today by two men who attached a magnetic bomb to his car.

    They sped alongside on motorcycles and planted the bombs before escaping. Two people were hurt. Chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan died instantly after being thrown from the car. Iran immediately blamed the US and Israel for the assassination. No arrests have been made and witnesses said the killers executed their mission in seconds. Israeli officials have hinted about covert campaigns against Iran without directly admitting involvement but have, along with the US, denied accusations of assassinations.

    Mr Roshan's death is a bitter blow to Iran's nuclear programme. The 32-year-old was seen as one of the leading specialists on building polymeric layers for gas separation. Tensions between Washington and Tehran escalated yesterday when the UN revealed it had discovered an underground uranium enrichment plant near Q'om. But Iran continues to deny it is planning to build nuclear weapons, saying the enrichment is for civilian purposes. A similar attack two years ago killed Tehran University professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor. He died when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his car as he was about to leave for work. And in November 2010, back-to-back bomb attacks in the capital killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another.

    Theodore Karasik, of the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, said: "Instead of actually fighting a conventional war, Western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran's nuclear advancement."

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    U.S.A. WARNS IRAN ON STRAIT OF HORMUZ VIDEO
    IRAN'S DEFENSE MINISTER WARNS ISRAEL
    ahmad vahidi TEHRAN, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- An Israeli attack on Iran will spell the end of Tel Aviv, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi warned amid a wide scale navy drill in the Straits of Hormuz.

    "The Zionist regime is completely isolated and under no circumstances it can attack Iran unless she wants to commit a suicide," the Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted Vahidi saying Sunday night. "It is due to the fact that it will receive deadly strikes from Iran which will make it unstable. "Iran is in a unique position in all areas, including manufacture of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, as well as defense and assault airplanes. Iran has also made great progress in electronic warfare technology, aviation industries and missile technology," Vahidi said. Vahidi Saturday said the Islamic Republic's military forces have tracked down locations that will enable them to "paralyze the enemy" in any potential military engagement, Press TV reported.

    "That war is a kind of war we are not looking for, however, if the enemy seeks to take action, we will use all aspects of our capabilities in sophisticated areas," the defense minister said. Vahidi also lauded the recent interception of a U.S. drone, calling it a great achievement.

    "The U.S. by violating Iran's airspace not only violated international law, it also undermined the rights of Iran and Afghanistan, which unfortunately faced silence of international bodies, especially in the United Nations," he said. Iran launched a widespread navy drill Saturday spanning a 1,250 mile radius from the southern edge of the Arabian Sea into the Gulf of Aden. The drill is expected to last another eight days.

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    IRAN MAY NOW RANK NUMBER ONE IN WORLD NATURAL GAS RESERVES


    Sanctions have no effect; EU will not impose oil sanctions, says oil minister.

    Iran may rank first in the world in terms of gas reserves following the discovery of a new reservoir in the Caspian Sea, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said Sunday. Also, the European Union "definitely" will not impose sanctions on OPEC member Iran's oil exports because such a measure would harm the global crude market, said Qasemi. In an effort Friday to increase pressure on Tehran over its disputed nuclear program, EU leaders called for more sanctions against Iran to be put in place by the end of January.

    A new gas reservoir was discovered 700-meters deep in Iran's Caspian Sea, with its reserves standing at 50 trillion cubic feet. "It is predicted that after examination, the gas in this field would add up to much more than this," Qasemi added. Iran sits on the world's second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia, but international sanctions have frustrated plans to develop the country's gas sector for export, and booming domestic demand has made Iran the third-largest consumer of natural gas and a top-30 importer. "Our policy is to maintain a sustainable supply of oil to Europe ... Iran is a major oil producer and any sanctions on our oil exports would harm the global market," Qasemi told a news conference.

    Last week, EU foreign ministers agreed to formulate new sanctions for Iran's energy, transport and banking sectors. Iran has been hit by four rounds of UN sanctions and international sanctions for refusing to halt its sensitive nuclear activities, which the United States and its allies say are aimed at developing weapons. In its latest report, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA ) released new evidence confirming international concerns that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Tehran denies the allegations, saying it needs nuclear technology to generate electricity.

    Iranian authorities say the sanctions have had no impact on Iran's economy; authorities have defied the UN Security Council's demands to halt the country's nuclear project. "We (would ) have no problem in finding a replacement for the EU oil market," Qasemi said. On the country's oil swap, the oil minister said that currently the amount is not significant and stands at 25,000 to 30,000 barrels per day. Underlining the involvement of the private sector in oil swap, he said that the figure is expected to hit 400,000 to 500,000 barrels per day. International sanctions have kept foreign investors away from the Islamic republic, which is OPEC's number two oil producer with 2.6 million barrels a day in oil exports. The United States, Britain and Canada announced new measures against Iran's energy and financial sectors last month, and France proposed new sanctions, including freezing the assets of Iran's central bank and suspending purchases of the country's oil. France, backed by Germany and Britain, has led the push to ban Iran's crude, but some states - notably Greece - have expressed reservations because of their reliance on Iranian oil.

    Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said attempts to impose a ban on Iran's oil exports were due to a rift among the European Union members. "When they [EU member states] have so many differences among themselves, they should know the unity they have is only superficial," Salehi said, according to Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency. "Each member goes after its own maximal interests ... they have this profiteering approach and, with this rift, such sanctions cannot be imposed." Describing the oil market situation as balanced, Salehi also said that Iran will consider fair prices and the condition of the market in the upcoming OPEC summit, slated for December 14. The report did not reveal details of initial estimates of the newly discovered reserves, nor did it list the exact location.

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    IRAN SHOOT DOWN AMERICAN DRONE
    us drone U.S. official says no sign Iran shot down drone

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian media reported on Sunday that their country's military had shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone in eastern Iran, but a U.S. official said there was no indication the aircraft had been shot down. NATO's U.S.-led mission in neighbouring Afghanistan said the Iranian report could refer to an unarmed U.S. spy drone that went missing there last week. The incident comes at a time when Tehran is trying to contain foreign outrage at the storming of the British embassy on Tuesday, after London announced sanctions on Iran's central bank in connection with Iran's nuclear enrichment programme.

    Iran has announced several times in the past that it shot down U.S., Israeli or British drones, in incidents that did not provoke high-profile responses. "Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted a military source as saying. "The spy drone, which has been downed with little damage, was seized by the Iranian armed forces," the source said. "The Iranian military's response to the American spy drone's violation of our airspace will not be limited to Iran's borders." Iranian officials were not available to comment further.

    NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan said in a statement: "The UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to which the Iranians are referring may be a U.S. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week. "The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status." A U.S. official, who asked not to be named, said: "There is absolutely no indication up to this point that Iranians shot down this drone."

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    GEORGE GALLOWAY ON A WAR WITH IRAN VIDEO
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    ISRAEL'S MOSSAD BEHIND ASSASSINATION OF IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTIST
    Man pleads guilty to assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist

    A man accused by Iran of carrying out an assassination "sponsored and designed by Israel" has pleaded guilty to the murder of an Iranian "nuclear scientist". According to Iranian media, Majid Jamali-Fashi, 26, admitted killing Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, a particle physicist who Iran says was involved in the country's nuclear programme,

    Jamali-Fashi confessed to having attached a remote-control bomb to a motorcycle parked on the street, which detonated and killed Ali-Mohammadi while he was leaving home for work in January 2010. But seasoned observers questioned whether it was a show trial intended to cover-up Iran's embarrassment over its failure to protect its nuclear scientists. The extent of Ali-Mohammadi's involvement in Iran's nuclear programme is still not clear. At the time of the assassination, some expressed skepticism over claims that he was a nuclear scientist, saying that he had voiced strong support for the opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the past. But it emerged later that Ali-Mohammadi could have been associated with Tehran's nuclear ambitions after his name was seen on a list of an Iranian team at the Sesame Council, a joint-project involving different countries including Israel which runs a particle accelerator in Jordan.

    Prosecutors in the case accused Israel and its intelligence agency, Mossad, of being behind "terrorist groups" trained to kill Iranian scientists in order to halt the country's Iran's nuclear programme. "The defendant had travelled to Israel to receive training from Mossad and had agreed to assassinate Dr Ali-Mohammadi in return for $120,000," the English-language newspaper Tehran Times quoted the city's chief prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, as saying. According to the semi-official Fars news agency, Jamali-Fashi said he was also assigned to carry out five other "terrorist operations" after the assassination. Ali-Mohammadi's family asked for death penalty for the accused, according to Fars, but Judge Abol-Ghassem Salavati said sentencing would be issued in due course. Jamali-Fashi had previously appeared in a TV programme in January in which he confessed to having been hired by Israel and trained at a military base outside Tel Aviv before being dispatched to Iran to kill Ali-Mohammadi.

    The programme described him as "the main element" of any Israeli-trained network involved in the assassination. At the time of the broadcast, Iran's intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Iran had uncovered "a US-backed Israeli operation" and arrested more than 10 people with links to Mossad. In response to Jamali-Fashi's TV confessions, Israel denied any connection with him. In recent years, Iran's nuclear programme has experienced a series of setback after the assassinations of its scientists and the Stuxnet computer worm, which was designed to sabotage its atomic facilities and halt its uranium-enrichment programme. The malware is believed to have targeted a control system used in Iran's nuclear sites in July last year.

    In November, Majid Shahriari, a nuclear scientist, was killed and Fereidoon Abbasi Davani, Iran's current atomic chief, survived assassination in two similar attacks to the one which Ali-Mohammadi died. In July, an Iranian academic, Darioush Rezaeinejad was shot dead by gunmen riding on motorcycles. He was initially described by state media as a nuclear scientist but officials later denied he was involved in Iran's atomic programme. Rumours spread that at the time that the 35-year-old masters student might have been mistakenly killed instead of a nuclear scientist with a similar name, Darioush Rezaei.

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    IRAN OLYMPICS BOYCOTT OVER 'ZION'IST LOGO
    olympic logo London Olympics chiefs today defended their logo after Iran claimed it concealed the word "Zion".

    They insisted the £400,000 logo -made up of four jagged figures - "represents the year 2012, nothing else" despite claims from the Islamic state that it is racist. Iran has threatened to boycott the London Games unless the logo is changed. In a letter to the International Olympic Committee, Iran's Games chiefs said videos on YouTube show the digits being reorganised, with the 2 becoming a Z, the 1 an I, the 0 a O and the final 2 being read as an N. Zion is a hill in Jerusalem where the Jewish religion is said to have begun, and is taken as a synonym for Israel.

    The IOC said it backed London's stance. The logo, by design agency Wolff Olins, was widely ridiculed when it was unveiled in 2007. Iran's national Olympic committee have written to the IOC making an official complaint about the logo and threatening that they and other countries may not take part in the Games. The first complaint was made by Iran's former IOC member Seyed Mostafa Hashemi Taba earlier this month to the IOC. The Iran Labour News Agency have reported a letter from Mohammad Aliabadi, head of the National Olympic Committee in the Islamic republic, to IOC president Jacques Rogge.

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    IRAN BLAMES ISRAEL AND AMERICA FOR NUCLEAR SCIENTIST'S MURDER VIDEO

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    ABDUCTED IRANIAN SCIENTIST RETURNS TO IRAN VIDEO
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    FIDEL CASTRO WARNS OF IMMINENT NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE
    fidel castro The escalating tensions between Iran and the United States could lead to a new worldwide nuclear catastrophe, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro warned on Monday, Xinhua reported.

    If the United States and its allies try to inspect Iranian ships, "they will receive the proper answer," local media quoted an article written by Castro as saying. "I have no doubt that as soon as U.S. and Israeli warships try to inspect the first Iranian cargo ship ... it will be the exact moment when the terrible war will begin," Castro said in the article, dubbed "Knowing the truth in time."

    "A disaster" is coming "quickly" and a war would start even before the quarter-final of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he added. The UN Security Council adopted a resolution earlier this month imposing new sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear program, including restrictions on its shipping and air cargo operations. Castro handed over power to his brother Raul due to health problems in 2006 and has since devoted himself to editorials on major world issues.

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    ISRAEL - AMERICA 'PREPARE TO ATTACK IRAN' VIDEO
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    IRANIAN PROTEST TRAFALGAR SQUARE LONDON 15 MAY 2010


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