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This is my con­stant refrain these days when it comes to cur­rent events in Iran: I wish I had time to do more than write this lit­tle bit and link to a cou­ple of blog posts and arti­cles worth read­ing, but I’ve got too much else on my plate right now. Mas­soud Alimo­ham­madi, from every­thing I have been able to gather, was a nuclear sci­en­tist who sup­ported the oppo­si­tion in Iran. The Iran­ian gov­ern­ment has con­structed a nar­ra­tive in which Alimo­ham­madi was a sup­porter of the régime and he was killed by a car bomb that was planted by the Mujahedin-e Khalq with the help of, of course, Israel and the United States. Here are links to a few places that have more infor­ma­tion, analy­sis and more links to fur­ther details:

• Gary Sick at Gary’s Choices: Assas­si­na­tion in Tehran
• Homy­lafayette: Tehran Uni­ver­sity Pro­fes­sor Mas­soud Alimo­ham­madi Assas­si­nated: Fact and Fiction
• Frontline|Tehran Bureau: Bomb Kills Iran Nuclear Physi­cist Tied to Mousavi

I have been work­ing on a long post deal­ing with the pol­i­tics of Holo­caust imagery in lit­er­a­ture and the Jew­ish com­mu­nity. It should be done soon. I’m hop­ing to write some­thing more in depth about Iran when I am done with that.