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January 13, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2010/01/12/a-murderous-deception-in-tehran-marks-a-new-escalation-in-the-islamic-republics-struggle-for-survival

Iranian Regime Behind Professor's Murder

(Pajamas Media) Michael Ledeen - Despite a torrent of disinformation from the regime, Ali-Mohammadi was not involved in the secret nuclear weapons project, and 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. Why was he killed now? Because he was planning to leave the country for Stockholm, where he'd been offered a one-year fellowship. The attack was a vicious assault by the regime against one of its critics. I am told that the assassination is the first such act on Iranian soil by the Revolutionary Guard's "foreign legion," highly trained killers from Lebanese Hizbullah. That the supreme leader turned to Lebanese Arabs, not to Iranians, to kill the dissident physicist bespeaks a certain lack of confidence in the Revolutionary Guards and local security forces. I have learned that the Deputy Commander of the Guards in the greater Tehran area, Brig.-Gen. Azizollah Rajabzadeh, is in intensive care following an axe attack by one of his troops. This follows the shooting of Gen. Ahmad Reza Radan by one of his men.

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