Nuclear Physicist Ardeshire Hassanpour’s Mysterious Death
by John Little on 5/02/2007There’s been a lot of speculation since the intial reports emerged last week but few real details:
According to Radio Farda, Iranian reports of Hassanpour’s death emerged on January 21 after a delay of six days, giving the cause as “gas poisoning”. The Iranian reports did not say how or where Hassanpour was poisoned but his death was said to have been announced at a conference on nuclear safety.
Rheva Bhalla of Stratfor, the US intelligence company, claimed on Friday that Hassanpour had been targeted by Mossad and that there was “very strong intelligence” to suggest that he had been assassinated by the Israelis.
Iran is downplaying the entire affair:
But in the Fars report, the Iranian source strongly denied the theory, saying that the Israeli intelligence agency “is basically incapable of running operations inside Iran.”
“Such reports are released to serve propaganda purposes,” he said, adding that “Iran’s nuclear scientists are continuing their efforts to master civilian nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.”
Earlier on Sunday, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, Iranian vice president and head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, also denied the reports, saying that all the country’s “nuclear experts, thank God, are sound and safe.”
According to Fars, Aghazadeh said that no such person called Ardeshire Hassanpour had been among his employees.
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