'Iranian confesses to aiding Mossad in assassination of nuclear scientist'

[King_David]

Majid Jamali-Fashi pleads guilty to charges that he killed an Iranian physicist in 2010, in what Tehran said was an attempt by Israel and the U.S. to derail its nuclear program, according to state television.

An Iranian man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of assassinating a nuclear scientist in an operation prosecutors said was ordered by Israel to halt Tehran's race for atomic technology.

Majid Jamali-Fashi, a man who looked in his mid-20s, appeared in court to confess the murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi in January 2010, the first of several attacks on scientists which Iran has blamed on foreign agents, state television said.



Ali-Mohammadi, an elementary-particle physicist, was leaving his Tehran home to go to work on Jan. 12, 2010, when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded and killed him.

Two similar attacks on one morning in November killed nuclear scientist Majid Shahriyari and wounded another, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, who has since become Iran's atomic energy chief.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iranian-confesses-to-aiding-mossad-in-assassination-of-nuclear-scientist-1.380249

[King_David]

1. Problem is that a 'confession' in Iran is meaningless nt

[LeftishBrit]

2. Iran isn't noted for its fair trials..

They have nasty ways to get people to confess to all sorts of things.

And 'state television' in Iran is pretty much state-controlled television.

So I'll regard this one as 'not proven'.

[azurnoir]

3. IMO any 'confession' obtained under 'nasty' interrogation methods

should be taken with a grain of salt, no matter who the 'nasty' interrogators are

[LeftishBrit]

5. Absolutely.

[bemildred]

4. Sounds like a kangaroo court. nt