Two more Iran nuclear scientists attacked with bombs

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By Glenn Greenwald

Several noteworthy items until later today:

(1) Back in January, I wrote about an Iranian nuclear scientist who was killed when "when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control outside his home in the northern Tehran neighbourhood of Qeytariyeh." Today, two more were targeted in a similar manner, and one was killed:

Unidentified assailants riding motorcycles launched bomb attacks early on Monday against two Iranian nuclear physicists here, killing one of them and prompting accusations that the United States and Israel were behind the episode, state-controlled media reports said.

The dead scientist was identified as Majid Shahriari, a physics professor at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran, whose wife was injured when a bomb attached to his car was detonated remotely. A second professor at the same university, Fereydoon Abbasi, was injured in a separate, simultaneous attack. His wife was also hurt.

The Iranian Government blamed the U.S. and Israel for these attacks, though it has presented no evidence for those accusations. Back in 2007 -- when a Republican was President -- law professor Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds created substantial controversy among progressive pundits when he advocated that the U.S. begin assassinating Iran's nuclear scientists. In response, Kevin Drum explained why doing so would be a classic case of "terrorism":

http://www.salon.com...various_matters