Who assassinated Judge Moghaddas? S'CAN-IRANIC on Iran

ScanIranic:

The Minister of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic, according to ISNA, claims that his agents have “discovered” several leads about the assassination of Judge Moghaddas. In the mean time, the Chief Justice of the Revolutionary Courts, in a response to a question (?), declared that “this issue [I think he means Judge Moghaddas’s assassination] is not unrelated to the positioning of the US and Europe in regards to the nuclear issue. By creating instability on the eve of the take-over of the new government, they want to make a stand.”

In addition to this utter nonsense that one can expect from no one but a revolutionary judge, Mr. Mobasheri did not rule out the possibility of a relationship between Moghaddas’s assassination and his handling of Ganji’s case. He also emphasized that the assassination could have been directed from outside the country.

After Revolutionary Courts’ Chief Justice’s fascinating comments, the investigating judge informed the reporters of the following:

1. The assassination took place some time between 1516 and 1545 [316 PM AND 345PM].

2. The assassin did not have any headgear and was not covering his head by anything.

3. None of the witnesses could exactly remember the face of the assassin despite the fact that he was not covering his face.

4. The assassin approached Mr. Moghadass’s car on foot, shot him twice, and escaped the scene on foot.

Reading the above, I am now beginning to understand why there were rumours in Tehran last night that the assassination could be the work of an insider, or someone who worked for any of the Intelligence Organizations of the regime at some point.

First of all that area of Tehran, even at that time of any afternoon (summer or otherwise), is busy enough that people could have seen the face of the assassin somehow, especially if he was not covering his head at all. Second, the investigating judge is giving a thirty-minute window to an incident that could have happened in three minutes.

Certain contradictions from what was originanlly reported still remain. For example, BBC Persian reported yesterday, citing General Talayi the Commander of the Police Force in Tehran, that the assassin had escaped with help of a motorcyclist who was his partner. Now, the investigating Judge reports that the assassin escaped on foot.

It is becoming interesting….