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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/08/07/mole-hunt-iran-executes-   
   nuclear-scientist-puts-dozens-of-journalists-on-death-row-n3805590   
      
   Iran bragged about its 'victory' after the end of the 12 Day War, when the   
   Israelis easily destroyed Iranian air defenses and the US all but   
   destroyed their nuclear-weapons program. Generally speaking, however, the   
   winning side of a war usually doesn't have to engage in massive "mole   
   hunts" and executions to excuse failures. And even when they do, they   
   generally don't do it while its enemies are still exposing their terror   
   hierarchy and operations.   
      
   The mole hunt has ramped up in recent days, the New York Times reports,   
   and has taken on elements of nose-cutting-to-spite-faces actions. Israel   
   targeted Iran's nuclear scientists in the war to ensure that they could   
   not easily reconstitute their pursuit of nuclear weapons. Iran has given a   
   boost to Israel's efforts by executing one of its remaining nuclear   
   experts, reports the New York Times:   
      
   Iran executed one of its nuclear scientists on Wednesday over allegations   
   that he was a spy for Israel and had facilitated Israel’s assassination of   
   another nuclear scientist during the two countries’ war in June, according   
   to the judiciary’s news outlet, Mizan.   
      
   The judiciary said the scientist, Roozbeh Vadi, had worked at one of the   
   country’s most sensitive and important nuclear sites and had access to the   
   type of classified information sought by Iran’s enemies. Mr. Vadi was   
   executed by hanging after he was found guilty of espionage and providing   
   information to Israel, the judiciary said.   
      
   That raised eyebrows at the NYT, and rightly so:   
      
   But the arrest and execution of a nuclear scientist is extremely rare in a   
   nation that takes great pride in its domestic nuclear program, with   
   scientists hailed as national heroes. It is also an embarrassing admission   
   of the possible extent to which the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence   
   service, has infiltrated Iran.   
      
   Was Vadi a spy for Israel? Who knows, but that's hardly the point for a   
   regime that is reeling from its utter defeat in its first major direct   
   military conflict in 37 years. The regime needs scapegoats for their   
   incompetence, perhaps now even more than they need nuclear scientists with   
   its facilities in utter ruin now. Regime survival for a theocratic tyranny   
   relies on the perception of not just dominance but also divine authority.   
   Having one's ass kicked for twelve straight days without having any   
   effective strategic wins from its vaunted offensive ballistic-missile   
   campaign does not speak well about claims to either dominance or divine   
   grants of authority. The only possible explanation that would avoid the   
   obvious challenges to both claims is betrayal.   
      
   Vadi is not the only target of the hunt for scapegoats, and not just   
   within Iran either. The Jerusalem Post reports that the regime has   
   targeted hundreds more for potential execution, including dozens of   
   journalists, also as Israeli spies and infiltrators:   
      
   London-based media outlet Iran International has filed an urgent appeal to   
   the United Nations, revealing that 45 of its journalists and more than 300   
   of their relatives across eight countries have received explicit death   
   threats from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). The threats warn   
   staff to stop reporting on Iran or face execution, including their   
   immediate family members.   
      
   The Persian-language news network, headquartered in London with additional   
   bureaus in Washington, DC, and other global locations, said the campaign   
   is part of a coordinated effort by Iranian authorities to silence dissent   
   and intimidate the press. The threats mark what Iran International calls   
   an “alarming and unprecedented escalation” in Tehran’s long-running   
   campaign against the outlet.   
      
   In its formal appeal filed Tuesday with five UN Special Rapporteurs, Iran   
   International’s legal team outlined that the threats have come with   
   specific deadlines, all of which expired last week. The letter was sent to   
   UN experts on freedom of expression, extrajudicial executions, torture,   
   counter-terrorism, and Iran.   
      
   “Iran International journalists, their families in Iran and their families   
   outside Iran are being threatened and harassed as never before,” said   
   Mahmood Enayat, General Manager of Iran International. “This is an   
   unprecedented and concerted campaign to force them off air.”   
      
   The MOIS certainly doesn't think that Iran won this war. Otherwise, they   
   would welcome press coverage of a glorious victory. Instead, they are   
   adopting gangster/terrorist methods to get journalists to shut up about   
   the actual outcomes of the war, not to mention the nature of the regime   
   itself.   
      
   Not that it these tactics or the mole hunt is doing the MOIS much good.   
   The National Council of Resistance of Iran has also reported that the   
   regime has executed two MEK figures as well, a group that is the most   
   significant of the in-country resistance, although they had actually been   
   arrested two years ago. The NCRI held a press conference this morning to   
   discuss the MOIS and their terror operations in the region and in the   
   West. Their sources within the regime have provided them a lot of detail   
   about the secret structure of the MOIS, and the NCRI laid it all out today   
   in Washington DC:   
      
   A classified document that the Iranian Resistance has received from within   
   the regime includes the names of current Intelligence Ministry officials,   
   which is extremely opaque within Iran. Included on the list is “Seyyed   
   Yahya Hamidi” (aka Seyyed Yahya Hosseiny Panjaki), who currently serves as   
   Deputy Minister of Intelligence and head of the Counterterrorism   
   Directorate.   
      
   Additionally, cleric Hossein Safdari, is listed as the head of the Foreign   
   Intelligence Organization within the Ministry of Intelligence, and plays a   
   key role in terror operations. According to the organizational chart of   
   MOIS officials, based on the aforementioned list, the regime’s   
   extraterritorial terrorist operations are coordinated between these two   
   directorates.   
      
   The Deputy Minister for Counterterrorism (Hosseiny Panjaki), utilizing all   
   the Ministry’s resources, implements terrorist operations in coordination   
   with relevant agencies. The Foreign Intelligence Directorate (headed by   
   Safdari), through intelligence stations embedded in the regime’s   
   embassies, provides information, resources, and cover for the activities   
   of the regime’s terrorist-diplomats.   
      
   Both directorates were involved in the November 9, 2023, terrorist attack   
   in Madrid against Prof. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former Vice President of the   
   European Parliament and President of the International Committee in Search   
      
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