{"id":30848,"date":"2011-07-24T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30848"},"modified":"2011-07-27T07:21:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:21:56","slug":"iran-scientist-may-have-been-mistakenly-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=30848","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Scientist May Have Been Mistakenly Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Peter Kenyon \u2013 NPR July 24, 2011<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran says the killing of a young scientist Saturday was a &#8220;U.S.-Zionist terrorist act.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Darioush Rezai-Nejad, 35, was gunned down in Tehran on Saturday by assailants who also wounded his wife, according to state-run Iranian media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A number of Iranian nuclear scientists have been attacked in recent years, but officials said in this case there may have been a mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Official media said Rezai-Nejad, a promising graduate student, may have been killed because his name is similar to another scientist, who does work on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite assassinations, cyberattacks and stringent sanctions, Iran continues to press ahead with its nuclear activity, which it says is peaceful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tehran recently announced the installation of new, second-generation centrifuges that could accelerate the country&#8217;s efforts to enrich uranium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever it was who shot down Iranian scientist on Saturday, it seems they hit the wrong guy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30848"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31020,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions\/31020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}