{"id":16558,"date":"2012-01-18T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16558"},"modified":"2012-01-18T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:13:02","slug":"mehdi-hasan-irans-nuclear-scientists-are-not-being-assassinated-they-are-being-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16558","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Hasan: Iran&#8217;s nuclear scientists are not being assassinated. They are being murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Killing our enemies abroad is just state-sponsored terror \u2013 whatever euphemism western leaders like to use<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Hasan \u00b7 guardian.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_16559\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16559\" data-attachment-id=\"16559\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=16559\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007.jpg?fit=460%2C276\" data-orig-size=\"460,276\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran on January 11, with his son, Alireza. Photo &#8211; AFP&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007.jpg?fit=300%2C180\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007.jpg?fit=460%2C276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16559\" title=\"Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007.jpg?resize=300%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007.jpg?resize=300%2C180 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007.jpg?resize=150%2C90 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mostafa-Ahmadi-Roshan-Ira-007.jpg?w=460 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran on January 11, with his son, Alireza. Photograph - AFP-Getty Images<\/p><\/div>On the morning of 11 January Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the deputy head of Iran&#8217;s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was in his car on his way to work when he was <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/11\/iran-nuclear-scientist-killed\">blown up by a magnetic bomb attached to his car door<\/a>. He was 32 and married with a young son. He wasn&#8217;t armed, or anywhere near a battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/11\/secret-war-iran-timeline-attacks?intcmp=239\">three other Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed<\/a> in similar circumstances, including <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/jul\/27\/iranian-scientist-killing-western-security-agencies\">Darioush Rezaeinejad<\/a>, a 35-year-old electronics expert shot dead outside his daughter&#8217;s nursery in Tehran last July. But instead of outrage or condemnation, we have been treated to expressions of undisguised glee.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/jan\/16\/iran-scientists-state-sponsored-murder?fb=native&amp;CMP=FBCNETTXT9038\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Iran&#8217;s nuclear scientists are not being assassinated. They are being murdered&#8221; by Mehdi Hasan<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing our enemies abroad is just state-sponsored terror \u2013 whatever euphemism western leaders like to use Mehdi Hasan \u00b7 guardian.co.uk On the morning of 11 January Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the deputy head of Iran&#8217;s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4j4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16558"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16567,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558\/revisions\/16567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}