Iran loses its top missile expert in explosions sparked by failed bid to fit nuclear warhead on Shahab-3 http://www.debka.com/article/21474/ There is another follow up story to this that sounds a bit like more saber rattling but its getting a bit more serious if indeed this is in fact true.
If a nuclear warhead exploded surely by now some Iranian living nearby would have reported it and it would be all over U Tube. http://arabic.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=9007273085
Abu Sina wrote: If a nuclear warhead exploded surely by now some Iranian living nearby would have reported it and it would be all over U Tube. Doubt if anyone living nearby would live to report it. How to overthrow Iran's regime without war or sanctions November 9, 2011 : Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, warns that military intervention and economic sanctions only strengthen Irans regime, whose grip on power depends on maintaining a crisis. He offers 14 ways to hasten democratization in Islamic countries. See also: Iran's nuclear program: Will oil ties prevent China from backing tough Iran sanctions? November 9, 2011 - China's growing gas and oil ties to Iran are testing its oft-stated commitment to nuclear nonproliferation as fresh international calls for harsh Iran sanctions multiply in the wake of a new UN report on Iran's nuclear program.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/11/12/176721.html I knew there had to be a US connection somewhere that will be the Debkas source . Debka then added the 'nuclear' part to the story.
Mossad-MEK Terror Caused Iran’s IRG Missile Base Explosion? The face of the Israeli terror machine may have reared its ugly head again in the world. This time it has produced yet another massive act of sabotage http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4147189,00.html ( at an IRG missile base west of Teheran. During transfer of explosives at the Modarres (other sources say the base is called Sajad) garrison, which houses Shihab 3 (Israel Defense says the site is also responsible for development of the new Shihab 4) and Zelzal surface-to-surface missiles, an explosion ripped apart the base and killed anywhere from 14 to 40 soldiers depending on the source (the number released by the IRG is 17), and wounded an equal number, some severely. The blast was felt as far away as Teheran, 25 miles distant. Those who experienced the explosion said it felt like an earthquake. Some say there were two explosions. Ynet raises the possibility that it was a deliberate act of sabotage on not just a missile base, but an intelligence facility. Teheran Bureau says the IRG is telling the Iranian media that the accident was not an act of terror, but purely an industrial accident. However, an Israeli source with extensive senior political and military experience provides an exclusive report that it was the work of the Mossad in collaboration with the MEK. It is widely known within intelligence circles that the Israelis use the MEK for varied acts of espionage and terror ranging from fraudulent Iranian memos alleging work on nuclear trigger devices to assassinations of nuclear scientists and bombings of sensitive military installations. A similar act of sabotage happened a little more than a year ago at another IRG missile base which killed nearly 20. In the murky world of Israel-Iran relations, where it’s often hard to tell the difference between information, misinformation and disinformation, either explanation may be true. But my source has never been wrong so far in the reports he’s offered. It is of course ironic that the same MEK is paying key political players in U.S. life hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of removing it from the Treasury Department terror list. I suppose when a terror group is harming your enemy then it’s no longer a terror group, eh? Certainly if there was another power than the Mossad willing to pay more for them to attack Israel and the U.S., guess who they’d be wreaking havoc on? To give you an idea of the level of brainwashing Israelis undergo thanks to willing collusion between military correspondents and the intelligence services, this is how the Hebrew Ynet report describes the MEK and its collusion with Mossad and others: Though the reliability of this report can’t be substantiated, it should be remembered that the Iranian opposition [by this they mean MEK and not the Green movement] fulfills an important role in revealing secret Iranian installations and serves as a pipeline for publication of secret intelligence. There is an assumption that western intelligence services pass on to them intelligence in order to “launder” it and expose it to the world. An unsuspecting Israeli would find nothing in this passage unduly alarming. But those analysts who’ve followed the various shenanigans and frauds perpetrated by Mossad and MEK in the past understand the underlying meaning of this passage: that the information fed to MEK is fraudulent. But by laundering and having an ostensibly Iranian group release it, it has more credibility among the world press. The irony of such acts of terror committed by the Mossad is that they supposedly relieve pressure to attack Iran head on with a military strike to knock out its nuclear targets. On a related subject, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (Turner Overdrive), attempting to outdo her rivals in fawning obeisance to Israeli interests, claimed that with Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions: The table is being set for worldwide nuclear war against Israel. Frankly, I don’t know who’s worse, the megalomaniacs in Tel Aviv plotting a military strike against Teheran or their enablers within the far-right confines of the Republican Party
I left the nuclear part out if the title for that reason, but it was part of the title from debka, I had to post it here to get you, or someone like yourself to post the other side of the story in which you did, thank you. I'm not a big fan of debka file or the US news agencies for that matter. any word on this guy dying? and I am a little disappointed that they have an old picture from 2010 in that article for yesterday. edit: I dont know whos worse, the megalomaniacs in Tel Aviv plotting a military strike against Teheran or their enablers within the far-right confines of the Republican Party ha! they are the same people!!
Al Arabeya reports that he died. I cannot find anything in English only Arabic. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/11/13/176815.html The man in that photo is Ramadan Sherif.
That Debka file article has the wrong name. He is called Hasan Tehrani He was also not a nuclear scientist. They also got the people killed wrong it is not 32 but 17. It's better to wait on the official story or to get a source that quotes the official story from Iran as these articles make so many mistakes and add things.
What a shame, I hope it was Israelis. Oh well. Allah will be gravely disappointed. Fair enough. If it was a mossad operative maybe Iran should get the message that Israel will stop at nothing to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon from becoming viable.
