Rumor: Dead nuke scientist was Iran’s Stuxnet expert
rof. Majid Shahriari, who died when his car was attacked in North Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, headed the team Iran established for combating the Stuxnet virus rampaging through its nuclear and military networks. His wife was injured. The scientist’s death deals a major blow to Iran’s herculean efforts to purge its nuclear and military control systems of the destructive worm since it went on the offensive six months ago. Only this month, Stuxnet shut down nuclear enrichment at Natanz for six days from Nov. 16-22 and curtailed an important air defense exercise.
Prof. Shahriari was the Iranian nuclear program’s top expert on computer codes and cyber war…
It is important to note that the attacks took place in the most secure district of Tehran, where the top-secret labs serving Iran’s nuclear facilities are located. They must therefore have been set up after exhaustive and detailed surveillance.
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Does he still get the raisins?
Socmodfiscon on November 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM
What a co-inky-dink.
Akzed on November 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Israelis don’t like when you screw with their inventions.
amerpundit on November 29, 2010 at 4:01 PM
So, there is SOME level of competence out there after all. Nice to know. Sorry his wife got hurt in the hit.
MikeA on November 29, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Well, this is Debka. Take this with a huge grain of salt.
Asher on November 29, 2010 at 4:04 PM
What I don’t understand is how not a single person connected with these attacks, if this article is accurate, has been apprehended. To me, it doesn’t make any sense unless it is the Iranian government itself perpetrating the attacks or an anti-government group in Iran with lots of friends in high places.
NotCoach on November 29, 2010 at 4:05 PM
That’s a shame.
lorien1973 on November 29, 2010 at 4:09 PM
Ha! My response as well. Kosher salt, all you can lay your hands on.
BL@KBIRD on November 29, 2010 at 4:09 PM
Mossad.
Vera on November 29, 2010 at 4:10 PM
That’s what I guessed in the other thread: it was internal. Done as a warning.
LastRick on November 29, 2010 at 4:10 PM
Coming from Debka? Wasn’t this site shown to lie about certain things?
upinak on November 29, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Too bad about the scientist, a waste of western education.
BL@KBIRD on November 29, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Too bad. I was hoping that Assange would also be riding in the car.
/sarc>
landlines on November 29, 2010 at 4:32 PM
We already knew that Stuxnet was a high-level espionage undertaking. This news only corroborates that.
You guys really think it’s Mossad? The article posted here the other day seemed to elude to Europeans, especially Germans, in that Stuxnet has such intimate knowledge of Siemen’s equipment that it’s unlikely people at Siemens didn’t contribute to some extent.
Who knows. I hate to be a stereotypical violence-loving American but all this high-level cyber warfare is intriguing
hisfrogness on November 29, 2010 at 5:04 PM
Spy vs. Spy!
Ward Cleaver on November 29, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Don’t for Lil’ Kim and Baby Kim.
/we’re gonna need a minivan soon
Ward Cleaver on November 29, 2010 at 5:09 PM
Because the Dubai Police is not on the case?
dmh0667 on November 29, 2010 at 5:18 PM
Assassination can be a two way street, maybe all the chest thumping and high fiving is premature considering the possibility of blowback. A high profile explosion that also targets his family is nothing to be proud of.
koolbrease on November 29, 2010 at 5:25 PM
This sounds like a good action movie, only problem at the end of action movies things explode spectacularly.
djohn669 on November 29, 2010 at 6:24 PM