Iran Story

 This is one of those rare stories where you see an element of technology used....that has never been seen before.

So a few weeks ago....the number nuclear scientist of Iran got 'whacked'.  On the potential 'bad-boy' list of people who might have been a threat to help develop nuke weapons in Iran....he was considered number one.

Iran officials went to the site of the attack.  The guy's car (limo) was going from point A to point B, in some desert situation.  It's a rural area, and nothing much there.  

Guy's wife was in the car and sitting in the backseat....I assume in the passenger's side (not the drivers side). 

What the Iranian police say is that it's an odd situation.  No one was physically there....to fire the bullets from the 'machine gun'.

There was simply a pick-up parked on the side of the road....with the rear end facing approaching traffic.  There was apparently some type of satellite dish there, and a computer-hook-up to the machine gun.

Remote control assassination?  Yes.  Some kind of fancy camera device and relay system sending the video back to the satellite, and onto some lab in another location?  Yes

Bunch of rounds fired?  Well....no.  The Iranians suggest 13 shots total....were fired.  

The wife in this case?  None of the rounds came within a 1.5 foot of the lady.

The problem here?  You start to draw up these scenarios....a construction crew arrives at some building and puts a small dish up on the roof, and puts a fake-looking 'box' on the side of the building with a camera or two....with a gun.  Then weeks and months pass by, and one day.....political figure X drives by and the gun takes the guy out.  Police come.....look at the set-up and then realize it's been there and active for a year or two....just waiting for the right day.

It's a bold new era, where some guy could assassinate some figure from 1,000 miles away.