F) Provoking Iraq to wage a war against Iran
After facing a heavy defeat in the Nojeh coup d’état, the Americans focused on the project of provoking Saddam to wage a war against Iran. Hence, in order to prepare Iraq to initiate the war and inform the country, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, travelled secretly to Baghdad on different occasions one of which was exposed by the Wall Street Journal on February 8, 1980.
Americans have tried to conceal their role in provoking Saddam to attack Iran. However, equipping this regime with various types of new weapons and political and international support by the Americans and their allies, cannot be concealed or denied. Hence, the Americans were forced to admit.[1]
5. Assassination of Revolutionary Figures
Since 1979, various militant organizations and groups in Iran have adopted the strategy of armed struggles against the Islamic Republic, which resulted in the deaths of about 17,000 and the injury of thousands of people over three decades.
Also, some assassination attempts, directly and indirectly, have been carried out by foreign intelligence agencies such as Israel and the United States, and the elements of some of them have never been identified.
a) Tragedy of June 28th
On June 28, 1981, a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Iran Islamic Republic Party in Tehran, while a meeting of some officials of the Islamic Republic including Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, four cabinet ministers, twelve deputy ministers as well as about thirty members of the Majles, was in progress. In that explosion seventy-two revolutionary figures were killed. This incident occurred exactly six days after Banisadr was deposed and about one day after the terrorist incident of the AbuZar Mosque, in which Ayatollah Khamenei, the Friday prayer leader of Tehran at the time, was seriously injured. The perpetrator was a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, named Mohammad-Reza Kolahi. After the explosion, he managed to flee to France with the help of American agents and the organization of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
b) The Martyrdom of Ayatollah Sadouq.
Ayatollah Sadouqi, a longtime companion of the Islamic Revolution, was appointed by Imam Khomeini as the Friday prayer leader in Yazd. Due to his great influence during the revolution, he severely angered the enemies of the revolution and was subjected to several killing attempts. Eventually, in the month of Ramadan in 1981 and after the holding of Friday prayers, he was attacked by Mohammad-Reza Ebrahimzadeh a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran and was martyred at the age of 75. He is given the title of Shaykh al-Shohada.
c) The assassination attempt on Ayatollah Khamene.
An assassination attempt on Ayatollah Khamenei that occurred on June 27, 1981, was the first of a series of acts of terror committed by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran against the Iranian officials, all of which received support from the American government. After Ayatollah Khamenei started his speech in AbuZar Mosque, a tape recorder was set on the desk in front of him so that when it exploded his heart would be hit; but during the speech and due to some problems with the recorder, he changed his position which caused that the explosion injures his right arm.
6) The Assassination of Nuclear Scientists
Given the inability to put pressure on Iran to curtail the country’s scientific development, the Americans began to kill the country’s scientists. This strategy adopted by Western politicians reflects their inability to deal with Iran.
a) Ardeshir Hoseynpour – 2007
Ardeshir Hoseynpour was a scientist and associate professor of electro-magnetic who was born in Tehran. He was one of the scientists in Iran’s nuclear program[7] and the first scientist of the country who was assassinated. At the time, Ardeshir Hoseynpour was working on the Esfahan nuclear project as well as drafting a plan for the construction of the largest atomic physics complex in the Middle East.[8] Dr. Hoseynpour was killed on January 16, 2007. The suspicious death of an Iranian scientist remains oB.Sc.ure. The Stratford newspaper quoting from CIA sources stated that Dr. Hasanpour was targeted by Mossad. According to the Figaro newspaper, his death was the result of an assassination using radioactive gas.
b) Masoud Ali Mohammadi – 1959
Masoud-Ali Mohammadi was born on August 26, 1959, in Tehran. He obtained his B.Sc. from Shiraz University in 1985. Subsequently, he moved to the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, to study for his M.Sc. in physics. In 1988 he began with his Ph.D. studies at this University as one of its first Ph.D. students in physics. Ali Mohammadi obtained his Ph.D. there in 1992. He was the first Ph.D. graduate student in physics. On the morning of January 12, 2010, and while leaving for university, Ali Mohammadi was assassinated by a remote-control bomb in front of his home in Tehran.
c) Majid Shahriari – 2010
Majid Shahriari, born in Zanjan in 1996, was a Ph.D. student of particle physics and a faculty member at Shahid Beheshti University. He was also one of the two Iranian scientists of the International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East. Following the series of killing operations of the nuclear physics professors, Shahriari was martyred on November 29, 2010. The explosions that were carried out to assassinate Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi, two professors of Shahid Beheshti University, resulted in the martyrdom of Majid Shahriari. Also, two of his companions were severely wounded. Iranian officials and media have variously blamed Israel and the United States for assassinating Shahriari.
d) Fereydoun Abbasi
Fereydoun Abbasi was born in Abadan on July 11, 1958. He has been a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In addition, Abbasi was active during the Iraq-Iran War. He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. Since 1993, Abbasi has been a faculty member of Tehran’s Imam Hoseyn University and later on, he chaired the physics department of the University. Abbasi has expertise in the field of laser and has worked on laser uranium enrichment and isotope isolation. on April 30, 2007, He was selected as the top professor of the country due to his scientific services and works. Abbasi is a member of the Council of Iranian Nuclear Association.
He is listed in an annex to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1747 of March 24, 2007, as a person involved in Iran’s nuclear activities. This resolution described Abbasi as a “Senior Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics scientist with links to the Institute of Applied Physics and hence imposed sanctions on him. On November 29, 2010, Abbasi was seriously wounded and narrowly survived an assassination attempt on a Tehran street.[12]
e) Darioush Rezaeinejad – 2011
Darioush Rezaeinejad was born in Abdanan (a city located in southern Ilam province) on February 18, 1978. In addition to teaching and conducting research activities, he was supervising many research projects conducted at Malek Ashtar, Tehran, Shahid Beheshti and Khajeh Nasir al-Din al-Tusi universities. He was admitted to the Ph.D. program at Khajeh Nasir al-Din al-Tusi University in 2012 and was assassinated on July 1st of the same year by the agents of Mossad and the CIA.
f) Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan – 2012
Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was born in the village of Sangestan, Hamadan province on September 8, 1979. He started his education there and continued his academic studies at Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology and finally was graduated from the university in polymer engineering in 2002. At the time of martyrdom, Ahmadi-Roshan was a Ph.D. student at Sharif University of Technology and a university elite who was deputy director of commercial affairs of the Natanz nuclear site. He was assassinated by agents of Mossad and the CIA on Monday, January 11, 2012, after leaving home in the morning.
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