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Involvement of the West in sabotage and assassinations in Iran?

 former officials said, the U.S. and its allies have secretly ramped up covert actions aimed at slowing Iran’s nuclear progress toward a bomb….

Ex-officials see signs US and allies have stepped up sabotage against Iran’s nuclear efforts Washington Post, 26 Sept 11WASHINGTON — Iran’s star-crossed nuclear and energy programs have suffered a rash of setbacks, mishaps and catastrophes in the past two years.

Has Iran just been unlucky? Probably not.

The chief of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Fereidoun Abbasi, heatedly told journalists at a meeting in Vienna last week that the United States was supporting an Israeli assassination campaign against his scientists. His emotional comments came almost a year after motorcyclists attached a bomb to the door of his car in Tehran. He and his wife barely escaped with their lives.

As for the three slayings, Iranian President Ahmadinejad told The Associated Press on Friday that the killers had been caught and confessed to being “trained in the occupied lands by the Zionists.” He accused the International Atomic Energy Agency of being under the control of the U.S. and said the watchdog agency had “illegally and unethically” released the names of Iran’s nuclear researchers, making them targets.

While Israel and Britain won’t discuss Iran’s charges, the U.S. has denied any role in the slayings…..

there is little doubt that the Obama administration is pursuing a program of high-tech sabotage to disrupt Tehran’s suspected weapons-related nuclear efforts.

“I have no doubt that the U.S. and other countries were behind industrial sabotage aimed at the program of concern,” said Mark Fitzpatrick, a former State Department official, referring to Iran’s nuclear program…..

Publicly, the Obama administration has pushed for tougher sanctions and further diplomatic isolation to pressure Iran to abandon weapons-related work. At the same time, former officials said, the U.S. and its allies have secretly ramped up covert actions aimed at slowing Iran’s nuclear progress toward a bomb….

September 26, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties