Iranian Official: Ahmadinejad Was Target of X-Ray Assassination Plot
Monday , June 30, 2008
Foes of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tried to kill the hard-line leader with X-ray radiation during his recent visit to Italy, Iran’s former ambassador to Rome told Russian news service RIA Novosti on Monday.
Ex-ambassador Abolfazi Zohrevand said the rising concentration of high-intensity radiation at Ahmadinejad’s temporary residence in Rome earlier this month led to the claims.
"We found out that the radiation was higher than normal and its intensity was rapidly increasing," Zohrevand told Iran’s IRNA news agency. He added that several devices were used to avoid potential error in readings, but they all showed the same results.
Ahmadinejad is currently at odds with Iran's new reformist parliament due to growing social and economic unrest.
In addition, the Iranian president is under fire worldwide for his comments on the destruction of Israel, his "suspicions" of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and his belief that homosexuals deserve to be executed and/or tortured.
Ahmadinejad said last week that the U.S. was behind another attempt on his life during a recent visit to Baghdad. The West has denied the claim.
In one sentence in the article, the assissination attempt was attributed to Iranian opposition. Then at the article's end he attributes another assissination attempt by the West in Baghdad. Couldn't it have been Iranian opposition there too. No, it must be from the West because of US occupation in Iraq. I'd think if one was using radiation to assissinate someone, Xrays would not be the radiation of choice. It would be so much easier to use chemical and probably more effective. The idea of using radiation for assissination attempts is almost unbelievable. The equipment alone is large, unwieldy, and to be effective, used in close proximity. A mere letter would have sufficed. The attention given a failed assissination attempt is almost as good as success for arousing sentiment.
