Australia has been rocked by the release of a heavily redacted report about the killing of 39 unarmed Afghan civilians or prisoners by some 25 elite Australian Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers. Any prosecutions will take years and will violate the scientific principle of truth and systemic change rather than …
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While Confronting New Challenges, Social Movements Must Also Consolidate Old Commitments and Strengths
The world has been changing fast, and so must social movements, to keep up with the emerging challenges. The most significant aspect of the fast-changing world is the emergence of very serious threats to the basic life-nurturing conditions of earth, and in keeping with the recognition of this as the …
Read More »Iran Accuses Israel of Killing Nuclear Scientist
Supreme Leader Ali Khameneí has ordered Iranian authorities to punish the perpetrators for Fajrizadeh’s murder. Iranian President Hasan Rohani has accused Israel of being behind the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fajrizadeh, considered to be the director of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, and has denounced that his death was …
Read More »Fakhrizadeh assassination a huge embarrassment for Iran
The killing of Fakhrizadeh is major news globally. As such it is a huge embarrassment for Iran. The killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Iran, a key nuclear engineer behind Iran’s clandestine nuclear program, was not just a hit, it was a bloody and symbolic killing. According to the photos posted …
Read More »Timing is everything: Assassination of Iran nuke chief Fakhrizadeh
Clearly Fakhrizadeh was a key to Iran’s program and his killing shows how vulnerable that program is. The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh comes at a sensitive and important time. It is between the US election and the swearing in of a new president. It also comes less …
Read More »Warning from the past comes back to haunt Iran’s top nuclear scientist
Two years ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu first divulged Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as the father of Iran’s nuclear project. “Remember that name” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in 2018 of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whom many referred to as the “father” of Iran’s nuclear weapons project.
Read More »Was Iran’s Fakhrizadeh an Oppenheimer or a Soleimani?
It is not clear who killed him, but many US experts, former officials and voices in the European Union feel the attack was unacceptable. The killing of Iranian Islamist Revolutionary Guard Corps general and scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has led to a storm of condemnation. It is not clear who killed …
Read More »Who is the Iranian scientist killed in Tehran?
Iran denies Fakhrizadeh was involved in any such undertaking and that it ever tried to weaponise uranium enrichment for nuclear energy. Prominent Iranian military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, killed in an attack outside Tehran on Friday, was widely seen by Western intelligence as the mastermind of clandestine Iranian efforts to develop …
Read More »Iran vows revenge after assassination of top nuclear scientist
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh gunned down near Tehran; Iran blames Israel; UN, Germany urge restraint. Iran vowed revenge on Saturday for the assassination a day earlier of its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, raising the threat of a new confrontation between the Islamic Republic and the West with just over seven weeks …
Read More »U.S. role in assassination of Iranian scientist
Iranians mourn Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Tehran, Nov. 28. The targeted assassination of top Iranian physicist and nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Nov. 27, and Donald Trump’s immediate approving Tweet, confirm the determination of U.S. and Israeli rulers to sabotage every possible effort for peace or normalization of relations with Iran or …
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