Ardeshir Hosseinpour
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Dr. Ardeshir Hosseinpour [1](Persian: اردشير حسين پور , b. 1962 – d. January 15, 2007) was an Iranian junior scientist, assistant professor, and authority on electromagnetism.[2] He was also involved in the Iranian nuclear program.[2][3][4] Hosseinpour died mysteriously in early 2007 during his nuclear work at Isfahan.
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[edit] Career
Dr. Hosseinpour held a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in physics from Shiraz University (2002).[5] He was an assistant physics professor of Shiraz University, and also taught at the Malek Ashtar University of Technology in Isfahan.
In 2005, he co-founded[6] and continued his research at the Nuclear Technology Center of Isfahan.[3] He continued his research there until his death on January 15, 2007.
[edit] Cause of death
There are conflicting reports as to the cause of Hosseinpour's death. His death was not reported until six days after the event, first by the Al-Quds daily and the Iranian Students' News Agency. Iranian Radio Farda originally reported that he died due to "gassing".[7]
The U.S. private intelligence company Stratfor released a report on February 2, 2007 which claimed that "Hassanpour was in fact a Mossad target" based on "sources close to Israeli intelligence."[6][4] Stratfor also reported that the cause of death was "radioactive poisoning."[2] The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that a "website of expatriate Iranian communists" had claimed that several other scientists were killed or injured in the same incident, and treated in nearby hospitals.[2]
Stratfor added that:
"Decapitating a hostile nuclear program by taking out key human assets is a tactic that has proven its effectiveness over the years, particularly in the case of Iraq. In the months leading up to the 1981 Israeli airstrike on Iraq's Osirak reactor -- which was believed to be on the verge of producing plutonium for a weapons program -- at least three Iraqi nuclear scientists died under mysterious circumstances."[6]
Despite these reports, the "semi-official"[8] Fars News Agency reported that an unnamed informed source in Tehran told them that Hosseinpour was not involved in the nuclear facility at Isfahan, and that he "suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire in sleep."[9] The report of an assassination was also denied by Gholamreza Aghazadeh, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who said that Iranian nuclear experts "are sound and safe."[10] Mossad sources, including Meir Amit, the former head of the agency, also told the San Francisco Chronicle that the claim of assassination is "baseless" and "goes against all known modus operandi of the agency."[11]
On February 14, Stratfor again reported on the Hosseinpour death, warning that a reprisal attack by Iran against Israeli or Jewish targets around the world would come four to six weeks later if historical patterns hold true.[12] According to an investigative work by an Italian journalist, Ardeshir Hosseinpour did sympathise for Khatami. He may have been killed because he wanted to defect[13]
[edit] Awards
- Ranked 2nd, Applied research section, Khwarazmi International Festival.
- Ranked 1st, Khwarazmi International Festival. (2006)
[edit] Publications
- Hosseinpour, Ardeshir; Sadeghi, H. (September 2001). "Anisotropy Variation with Order-Disorder Transition in Magnetite". Physica Status Solidi (b) 227 (2): 563–567. doi:.
- Hosseinpour, Ardeshir; Zakery, Abdolnaser (2001). "Investigation of Magnetic Force for Barium and Strontium Ferrites". Journal of the American Ceramic Society 84 (5): 1184–1186. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. for the American Ceramic Society. doi:. (also abstracted at IngentaConnect, INIST-CNRS, and CSA)
- Hosseinpour, Ardeshir; Javadpour, Sirus (2005). "Fabrication of High Density Strontium Ferrites". Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ferrites (ICF 9): 353–358.
- Ghasemi, Ali; Shams, M.R.; Saatchi, A.; Salehi, M.; Hosseinpour, A. (2004-10-01). "Influence of Stoichiometry and Molar Ratio of Barium Ferrite Thin Film Synthesized by Sol-gel on Alumina Substrate". Transactions of Materials and Heat Treatment 25 (5): 1313–1315.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Alternatively English transliterations of the Persian name are: Ardshir or Adreshire and Hassanpour or Hossein-pour
- ^ a b c d Melman, Yossi. "U.S. website: Mossad killed Iranian nuclear physicist", Haaretz, 2007-02-04. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
- ^ a b "IRAN: NUCLEAR SCIENTIST DIES UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES", Adnkronos International (AKI), 2007-01-25. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
- ^ a b Baxter, Sarah. "Iranian nuclear scientist ‘assassinated by Mossad’", The Sunday Times, 2007-02-04. Retrieved on 2007-02-05. (refers to interview of Stratfor's Rheva Bhalla)
- ^ "الکتروديناميک يون هاي مغناطيسي در ابرشبکه ها, /اردشير حسين پور." (XML), IRANDOC Open Databases, 2006-01-04. Retrieved on 2007-02-05. (Persian)
- ^ a b c "Geopolitical Diary: Israeli Covert Operations in Iran", Stratfor, 2007-02-02. Retrieved on 2007-02-04. (requires premium subscription)
- ^ "مرگ مشکوک يک دانشمند هسته ای جمهوری اسلام (Scientist Nuk Dies)", Radio Farda. Retrieved on 2007-02-04. (Persian)
- ^ "U.S. troops allowed to kill Iranians plotting attacks in Iraq", CNN. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
- ^ "Moussad Incapable of Running Operations in Iran", Fars News Agency, 2007-02-04. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
- ^ "Tehran denies reports on scientist's "assassination"", Xinhua News Agency, 2007-02-05. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
- ^ Kalman, Matthew. "Israel tense over 'the Iranian threat'", San Francisco Chronicle, 2007-02-18. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
- ^ Burton, Fred. "The Covert War and Elevated Risks" (requires premium subscription), Stratfor, 2007-02-14. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
- ^ Maurizi, Stefania: "Il mistero della morte di mio marito che lavorava al nucleare iraniano", Il Venerdì of La Repubblica, 31 August 2007.
[edit] See also
- Nuclear program of Iran
- Plans for strikes against the Iranian nuclear program
