Santorum says there's a US program to kill Iranian scientists and dead ones are a wonderful thing

US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has callously described the assassination of Iranian scientists as "wonderful," threatening that those who work for Iran's nuclear program "are not safe."

"On occasion, scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead. I think that's a wonderful thing, candidly," said Rick Santorum addressing an election campaign in Greenville, South Carolina.

He added that, "I think we should send a very clear message that if you are a scientist from Russia, North Korea, or from Iran and you are going to work on a nuclear program to develop a bomb for Iran, you are not safe."

Santorum claimed that while Iran is "in the process of developing a nuclear weapon, it appears obvious to me that the [US] administration is doing little to nothing."

"We have done it; we have done it for American citizens. We are concerned when someone is producing a nuclear bomb that can be dropped on the state of Israel or provides a nuclear shield for a country which spreads terrorism with impunity and changes the face of the world," he said.

Santorum's remarks come as yet another Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, was assassinated on January 11 in Iran's capital, Tehran.

An unknown motorcyclist attached a sticky bomb to Ahmadi Roshan's car near Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran.

Ahmadi Roshan, a Sharif University of Technology chemical engineering graduate and the deputy director of marketing at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, was killed immediately and his driver, who had sustained injures, passed away a few hours later in hospital.

The latest terrorist attack comes as Iran has reached an agreement with the P5+1 -- Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany - to hold negotiations in Turkey.

The US, Israel and their allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program and have used this allegation as a pretext to sway the UNSC to impose four rounds of sanctions on Iran.

Based on these accusations, they have also repeatedly threatened Tehran with the "option" of a military strike.

This is while in November 2011, some of the US presidential hopefuls called for conducting covert operations ranging from assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists to launching a military strike on Iran as well as sabotaging Tehran's nuclear program.

The calls for assassinations are not idle threats as a number of Iranian scientists have been assassinated over the past few years. Professor Majid Shahriari and Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi are among the victims of these acts of terror.

On November 29, 2010, Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi were targeted by terrorist attacks; Shahriari was killed immediately and Dr. Abbasi, the current director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, only sustained injuries.

Iran says as the UN Resolution 1747, adopted against Tehran in March 2007, cited Abbasi's name as a "nuclear scientist," the perpetrators were in a position to trace their victim.

According to reports, Ahmadi Roshan had recently met International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, a fact which indicates that the IAEA has leaked information about Iran's nuclear facilities and scientists.

Written text from PressTV

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[drinkstwohanded]

Sick lunatic....I would NOT feel safe with this crazy bastard in office. Murder is not a "wonderful thing," but I guess he gets off on that sort of thing.

[4teepee]

Santorum is a terrorist and should be dealt with as such.

[bassmuffwah]

@MrBullfrog9876 Damn straight, as a born again christian I take it you must have read up on your own religion instead of following it blindly. Christianity views KILLING as against one of the 10 commandments. Its bloody ironic that so many american christians have no problem killing people in other countries though. Especially since Jesus promoted peace not war. These war mongers should learn from history that holy war is anything but holy and just leaves thousands of innocent people dead

[bassmuffwah]

@martinezj777 Its only uneducated people who follow this. There is PROOF that they do not have weapons. As well Iranians are not stupid. Even if they did have the bomb what the fuck are they going to do with it? Bombing USA or Israel would be suicide for them and they know it. As well don't even worry about them coming on to your soil, the USA is so powerful military wise that they would not allow a bomb be dropped, remember it has to travel a looooong way to cross the atlantic.

[bassmuffwah]

@johnnytoogood007 No its not. Its because Iran although proven to not hold any nuclear weapons does not like the west. Buying from GE and having american workers would only piss off its citizens. Iran hates Al Queda as well. Think about it thats like USA buying a powerplant from China to put on its home soil and then housing and paying Chinese workers on its home soil. Wouldn;t Americans be kinda pissed off? Same for Iranians. People are people...everywhere.

[bassmuffwah]

I hope he gets shot

[nosuchthing8]

@jeff61177 : When I was growing up they were called "Jesus Freaks". Sadly, Rick is the biggest Jesus Freak I have ever come across outside someone in a padded cell.

[nosuchthing8]

@amagilly : He never said that. However, no one should be shocked if he did it. He seems to think that any strongly held belief that he thinks comes from the catholic church should be allowed, in the name of tolerance. He's one sick puppy.

[nosuchthing8]

So.... Rick is in favor of assasinating Americans and Foreigners with no trial or even any evidence. Is he the reincarantion of Hitler?

[TRYCLOPS1]

This guy is a disgrace. The republican party is to blame for even considering garbage like that in the primaries.

[jeff61177]

@llandar2890 Well sir if it keeps him out of office it's yours.

[llandar2890]

@martinezj777 He cares nothing about protection. He cares about spreading the American Empire.