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Bomb Kills Iranian Nuclear Scientist

(Nov. 29) -- Identical bombings blamed on mysterious assailants on motorcycles killed an Iranian nuclear scientist and wounded his colleague during their morning commutes today through Tehran traffic. State media described sophisticated plots by killers on motorbikes, who swiftly attached bombs to the scientists' cars as...

Is This a Photo of a Secret Iranian Nuclear Bomb Facility?

(Sept. 10) -- The Iranian government consistently defends its nuclear program as peaceful, denying any intelligence reports to the contrary -- particularly those that suggest the country has a secret weapons program in the works. But now a coalition of Iranian opposition groups and a U.S. advocacy organization claim to...

Iranian Scientist's Propaganda Value Booms

(July 16) -- U.S. officials today stepped up their propaganda war with Iran over nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who they say willingly defected to the U.S. last year only to return to Tehran on Thursday. Intelligence insiders told The New York Times that Amiri was on the CIA payroll several years before his...

Report: CIA Paid Iranian Scientist $5 Million

(July 15) -- Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed to have been kidnapped by the U.S. and returned to the Islamic Republic to a hero's welcome today, was handed more than $5 million by the CIA to provide intelligence on the regime's atomic program, according to intelligence officials interviewed by The...

Iranian Nuclear Scientist Back Home From US

TEHRAN, Iran (July 14) -- An Iranian nuclear scientist claimed Thursday he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. interrogators after disappearing last year, adding to Tehran's allegations he was abducted by American agents. The U.S. says he was a willing defector who changed his mind and...