CAR BOMB KILLS IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTIST

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UPDATED: Another headline this morning ripped from the pages of my two recent novels, The Twelfth Imam and The Tehran Initiative. This one from the BBC: Iran car explosion kills nuclear scientist in Tehran. Excerpt: “A university lecturer and nuclear scientist has been killed in a car explosion in north Tehran. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an academic who also worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and the driver of the car were killed in the attack. The blast happened after a motorcyclist stuck an apparent bomb to the car. Several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in recent years, with Iran blaming Israel and the US. Both countries deny the accusations….” FLASHBACK FROM DEC 2011: COVERT WAR HEATS UP IN IRAN AND MIDEAST: Will it be enough to neutralize nuclear threat, or will Israel launch preemptive strikes in 2012?

• Washington Times: Fourth nuclear scientist in 2 years killed in Iran
• Ynet News: “The covert war on Iran.”
• NYT: Adversaries of Iran Said to Be Stepping Up Covert Actions
• Haaretz: Hamas leader to visit Iran, in second foreign trip since 2007