The United States private intelligence company Stratfor released a report on 2 February 2007 claiming "sources very close to Israeli intelligence" had said that Hosseinpour was "a long time Mossad target", and that Hosseinpour died from "radioactive poisoning"[2] as part of a purported covert Mossad operation to halt the Iranian nuclear program.
[4][6] It continued "Decapitating a hostile nuclear program by taking out key human assets is a tactic that has proven its effectiveness over the years, particularly in the case of Iraq.
In the months leading up to the 1981 Israeli airstrike on Iraq's Osirak reactor—which was believed to be on the verge of producing plutonium for a weapons program -- at least three Iraqi nuclear scientists died under mysterious circumstances.
"[6]The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that a "website of expatriate Iranian communists" had claimed that several other scientists were killed and injured in the same incident.
"[9] The report of an assassination was denied by Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who said that Iranian nuclear experts "are sound and safe.