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A New Escalation in Iran's Desperate Struggle for Survival
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Friday, January 15, 2010


THE GATHERING STORM

Publication Date: January 15, 2010

According to Michael Ledeen, despite a torrent of disinformation from the Iranian regime, the murder of Physics Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in Tehran was, "a vicious assault by the regime against one of its critics.

 

Early Tuesday morning-sometime between 7:30 and 8 o'clock-Physics Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed in an explosion while in his automobile leaving for Tehran University.The explosion came from a motorcycle rigged with explosives, that had been parked in front of his house for three days. It was detonated by remote control.

Despite a torrent of disinformation from the regime, Ali-Mohammadi was not involved in the secret nuclear weapons project, and - again contrary to the regime's lies - he was certainly not a regime loyalist.Indeed, he was among many university professors who supported Green leader Mir Hossein Mousavi during last spring's heated electoral campaign (see the entry at 1259 GMT on Enduring America).Why was he killed now? Because he was planning to leave the country for Stockholm, where he'd been offered a one-year fellowship in his chosen specialty, particle physics.

So unless the killers were totally confused, this was not a blow at the regime by its enemies, whether domestic or foreign (as you can imagine, there were all sorts of wild accusations from official media, blaming the murder on America, Israel, the MEK, which plays the crocodile to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's Captain Hook and obscure "royalist" organizations abroad), but rather the opposite: it was a vicious assault by the regime against one of its critics."

I would encourage you to read the entire report by Ledeen here.

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