U.S. denies any role in killing of Iranian nuclear scientist

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WASHINGTON — The United States denied any role in Wednesday's killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist, the latest in a series of events that have exacerbated tensions with Iran.

The assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was the latest in a year that has already seen new U.S. economic sanctions, threats to bar American ships from the Gulf, an Iranian death sentence to a jailed U.S. citizen and an escalation in Tehran's uranium enrichment program.

Iranian reports said two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to Roshan's car of, killing him and his driver. Roshan was a chemistry expert and director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, and the slaying suggested a widening covert effort to set back the Islamic republic's atomic program.

But US officials said they had nothing to do with it...yeah right..Israelis dunit


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[hi_im_god]

israel is playing an interesting game here.

there is zero chance you can extinguish nuclear knowledge one scientist at a time or nuclear capability one act of sabotage at a time.

i think they're looking to provoke iran into throwing the first punch and then inevitably drawing the u.s. in. we have sustained deep strike capability they lack.

iran's going to be a much larger story going forward in 2012. i'd give it an even chance as being a bigger story than the economy in this election cycle.