Mossad hit squad targeting Iranian scientists, report says

A new article has revealed that there is an assassination unit inside the Israeli spy agency tasked with killing Iranian scientists.

The article, published on the CBS News website on Saturday, is adapted from a new book entitled Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars by CBS national correspondent Dan Raviv and Israeli journalist Yossi Melman.

The article provides detailed information about how a super-secret unit inside Mossad called the Kidon (the Hebrew word for bayonet) trains agents and carries out spy missions in Iran.

It said that the book, which is a study of fifty years of assassinations by the Mossad, reaches the conclusion that all the assassins operating in Iran are Israelis who travel to Tehran using false passports.

The training of the Kidon members includes almost anything which is needed for a spy operation. The operatives are also trained in code recognition and secure communication.

The article added that Kidon is so secret and compartmentalized that its units are based outside the Mossad headquarters.

The article emphasized that the objective of Kidon’s actions is to derail Iran’s nuclear energy program.

Iranian scientists Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, Daryoush Rezaeinejad, Professor Majid Shahriari, and Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi were all assassinated by Israeli agents, according to Iran.

Ahmadi Roshan and his driver (Reza Qashqaei) were assassinated in January 2012 after a motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to their car in Tehran.

On July 23, 2011, gunmen killed Rezaeinejad outside his house in Tehran. Rezaeinejad and his wife were on their way to their child’s kindergarten when they were approached by two men on a motorbike. The gunmen called him by name and shot Rezaeinejad, 35, in the neck when he turned around.

On November 29, 2010, terrorists attached bombs to the vehicles of Iranian university professors Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi and detonated them. Professor Shahriari was killed immediately, but Dr. Abbasi and his wife only sustained minor injuries.

Professor Ali-Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran University, was killed by a booby-trapped motorbike in the Iranian capital in January 2010. The bombing took place near the professor’s home in the Qeytariyeh neighborhood of northern Tehran.

The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program and have used the false charge as a pretext to push for the imposition of sanctions on the country and to call for an attack on the country.

Iran argues that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology meant for peaceful purposes.